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<div class="WordSection1"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span>Nd. Rogers
& Visioners,<br><br style="">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Firstly,
sincere apologies for a delayed reversal; this came at a time we were in the
nick of things stitching things together for the Kisumu Reunion, and at the
same time recovering from the marathon GoSS/CTO conference in Juba.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Having said
that, I want to reiterate the importance of paying a close look at the
Singapore Model! This belief was even more fortified when Dr Seroney yesterday
shared with us the Singaporean Experience (being not far from Fiji where he is
based), and more so the fact that despite being a ‘tiny’ island (the size of
Mombasa: I don’t know!), Singapore is perhaps the world’s 3<sup>rd</sup> or 4<sup>th</sup>
strongest economy (fastest growing? Per capita? GDP/GNP? The Economists can
tell us). I am reminded of a study we had to take for the Ethiopian Govt about
3 years ago. Initially, some of the countries picked for comparative study were
South Africa, India, Egypt, Kenya, Malaysia, Mauritius and Rwanda. The first
thing I learnt was not to mix Egypt with Ethiopia; they are archrivals. At the
time, the population of Ethiopia was either 76m or 80m depending on your
source. Egypt’s population then was quoted at 78m; for the ‘patriotic’,
Ethiopia’s had to be 80m to be Africa’s 2<sup>nd</sup> most-populous country
after Nigeria!!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">But more
fundamentally, one of the people I was answerable to told me point blank: “<i style="">Rwanda and Mauritius are such tiny economies
that there is little to learn from them</i>!”. And he meant it! As to whether
he was right or wrong I leave to each person’s judgment. Yet one thing that I
can say and reminds me of when in the same year a grouping of over 200 young
Kenyan professionals invited me to Naivasha for a retreat and gave me as Guest
Speaker the topic ‘<i style="">Is Kenya a Failed
State?’</i> May response was the same thing I would have told the Et officer
concerned: “If you asked me if Rwanda or Mauritius (or Singapore by extension –
despite being ‘tiny’) are failed states, I would know what to answer because
neither/none of them is. But if you asked me if Kenya (or Ethiopia by
extension) are/is, I am not sure what I would answer because they are both
pretty much on the verge of failed states, but not yet.” Indeed, the current
on-goings and confusion on the national stage have strengthened even the more
my resolve to so believe. The far and short of it: a country’s greatness is not
necessarily in its geographic size – or even population. It is more in its
wealth, knowledge, power to innovate, and LEADERSHIP (as Nd. Rogers says very
well).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Courtesy of
Nd. Jared Oluoch in the US, I am almost completing reading the Book by Father
of Modern-Day Singapore, Dr Lee Kuan Yew (Former Prime Minister): <b style=""><i style="">Singapore
- From Third World to First </i></b>(one may add ‘in 30 years’). In an article
recently by Visioner Donald Kipkorir, he talked about Singapore, Rwanda and Turkey
as models, and argued how Turkey’s Leadership turned the country around in a
span of 10 years! Nd Seroney yesterday informed us of how President Mutharika
turned Malawi’s Agricultural/Food sector around in just one year (where he once
worked; he currently advises 17 Ministries of Health in the Pacific, yet Kenyan
Health Minister can’t have time just for tea with him)! Some of you may recall that
just in one year of Malawi’s Govt’s policy change to subsidize implements to
farmers, the country moved from huge food insecurity/deficit to surplus. We were
informed that last year when we faced food shortage, Malawi ‘donated’ some
food/corn to Kenya! What shame, if true!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The one
thread of argument – and which appears true in most the success cases cited is
some degree of benevolence/selflessness and dictatorship aka ‘benevolent
dictatorship’. Dictators even Kenya can have in plenty; what’s a far shot is
the latter attribute: benevolence and selflessness.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Even just
from a few sample sub-titles of Lee Kuan Yew’s book, it is a compelling
must-read:-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 54pt; text-indent: -36pt; line-height: normal;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="">i)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Getting the basics right</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 54pt; text-indent: -36pt; line-height: normal;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="">ii)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Building an army from scratch</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 54pt; text-indent: -36pt; line-height: normal;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="">iii)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Surviving without a hinterland</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 54pt; text-indent: -36pt; line-height: normal;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="">iv)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Winning over the [trade] unions</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 54pt; text-indent: -36pt; line-height: normal;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="">v)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A fair, not welfare, state</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 54pt; text-indent: -36pt; line-height: normal;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="">vi)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Straddling the middle ground</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 54pt; text-indent: -36pt; line-height: normal;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="">vii)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Nurturing and attracting talent – [one
of the parts I like most]</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 54pt; text-indent: -36pt; line-height: normal;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="">viii)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Many tongues, one language</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 54pt; text-indent: -36pt; line-height: normal;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="">ix)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Keeping the government clean</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 54pt; text-indent: -36pt; line-height: normal;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="">x)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Greening Singapore</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 54pt; text-indent: -36pt; line-height: normal;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="">xi)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Managing the media</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 54pt; text-indent: -36pt; line-height: normal;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="">xii)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Conductor of an Orchestra</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 54pt; text-indent: -36pt; line-height: normal;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="">xiii)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ASEAN – Unpromising start, promising
future</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 54pt; text-indent: -36pt; line-height: normal;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="">xiv)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Following Britain into Europe</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 54pt; text-indent: -36pt; line-height: normal;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="">xv)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Soviet Union – An Empire
implodes</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 54pt; text-indent: -36pt; line-height: normal;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="">xvi)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">America – The Anticommunist
Anchorman</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 54pt; text-indent: -36pt; line-height: normal;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="">xvii)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Taiwan – The Other China</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 54pt; text-indent: -36pt; line-height: normal;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="">xviii)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">China – The Dragon with a long tail</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 54pt; text-indent: -36pt; line-height: normal;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="">xix)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">China beyond Beijing</span></i></p>
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</span></span></span></i><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">China: To be rich is glorious</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">His
candidness – even when he talks about living world power presidents he
encountered is unrivalled. The following words of sample world leaders who
commented on the book and author say it all:-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“In office, I read and analyzed every speech of
[Lee’s]. He had a way of penetrating fog of propaganda and expressing with
unique clarity the issues of our times and the way to tackle them. He was never
wrong.”</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Margaret
Thatcher</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“There are two equalizers in life: the Internet and
education. Lee Kuan Yew is a world leader who understands this and is using the
power of the Internet to position Singapore for survival and success in the
Internet economy.”</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> John
Chambers, President & CEO, Cisco Systems</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“<i style="">This is a personal history of a man who,
almost single-handedly built a great nation from a small island… this is the
first textbook in the world on how to build a nation.</i>” Kuchi Miyazawa,
Finance Minister, Japan [Perhaps someone should right a rebuttal on Kenya on ‘how
not to build a nation’. In the earlier years – about 10 ago, UK was used by some
as an example of ‘how not to build e-government’. I guess it has since changed.]</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“<i style="">Lee Kuan Yew’s vision, astute political
judgment, and strategy turned Singapore from a trading post into the successful
thriving nation that it is today, respected by others. For those interested in
politics and economic development, his memoirs should be required reading.”</i>
Tun Daim Zainuddin, Malaysian Finance Minister.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Having
served GoR (Rwanda), and now Nd. Rogers confirms – Singapore’s leadership is
the script Rwanda reads from. In terms of Rwanda’s Vision (which is owned by
the people, like our new constitution), the Kenya’s Vision 2030 is owned by a
small clique/elite. I hope one day we can have a truly people’s vision.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Given the importance
of Lee Kuan Yew’s book, I decided [courtesy of Dada Wams] to give as a small
present two copies to my President and Minister (not Kenya, of course!). After
several months/years of searching, a bookshop at JKIA’s duty free now stocks
the book copies. Incidentally, a good friend of mine at CCK [Wakili John Omo]
who has recently picked a copy from the airport holds that a couple of years
ago, while in Singapore itself he couldn’t get the book as it was ‘out of
print’. Several times while connecting flights at airports in Jo’burg,
Amsterdam, Dubai, Hong Kong, Bangkok – and last month in various Chinese
Capital Cities – Beijing, Shenzhen & Shanghai, we had great difficulty
finding the book in any of the bookstores! </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Finally, as
Nd. Rogers attests, apart from a vision, a clear implementation plan is
necessary. For those of us striving towards the ‘third way’, one thing we need
ahead of 2012 is a sound ‘manifesto and economic blueprint’, akin to what NARC
had in 2002. Any takers? Let’s talk via private mail.</span></p>
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<p></p><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>Thanks Shem for the observations. Indeed as a Country, we Kenyans have along way to go in terms of recognizing our own in terms of innovations and even hard work. Nonetheless, I think we are still nurturing hope and probably if all of us play our crucial role in electing our leaders, especially in 2012, the change that we all yearn for may be realized sooner.</div>
<div>Just to confirm from Ndugu Shem that the leadership in Rwanda is indeed reading the script from Singaporean Experience, with full time professionals from Singapore fully engaged with local Rwandese Professionals in executing Rwanda-Singapore MoU; which is essentially geard towards the transfer of skills and assisting in realizing the County's Vision 2020. Also unlike our Vision 2030, Rwanda's Vision 2020 is very clear with a clear Roadmap and five-year periodical Audits on the basis of NICI programmes.</div>
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<div>So Visioners, there is still alot of work ahead of us. But one thing is clear, the Country's Leadership is EVERYTHING!</div>
<div>Rogers ngotwa<br></div>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Shem Ochuodho <shemochuodho@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> NVK-Mageuzi@yahoogroups.com; PICTA Kenya-LIst <picta-kenya@yahoogroups.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> NYCIV Group <nyciv@googlegroups.com>; ProgressiveMinds <ProgressiveMinds@yahoogroups.com>; Madaraka Party <madaraka-kenya@yahoogroups.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, December 13, 2010 10:17:39 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [NVK-Mageuzi] Honouring the man who linked Kenya to world.<br></font><br><span> </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Comrades,<br><br>Many thanks for the compliments. I am sincerely humbled.<br><br>One thing that continues to bother me though is that in the land of my fore-fathers and mothers, excellence and merit are not recognized and/or rewarded. Instead, 'mediocrity, political expedience, and ethnic bigotry' rein high. I feel VERY saddened that even as tributes and accolades are being churned all over the world for mPesa, nobody knows and even cares to ask about the young Kenyan university student who invented the product; instead MJ & Safaricom are feted on every high table for ripping off and continuing to rip-off Kenyans. Did somebody say as if that's not enough, he has now been crowned Chair of KTB/KTDC? Please.... I hope one day soon I'll convince Nd. Okiya to take Safaricom to court not only for exploiting Kenyans through poor quality service (CCK confirmed that recently in its own study) and
over-pricing -
just like the oil companies are doing, contrary to provisions of the Bill of Rights in the new Katiba.<br><br>For the time being, I'll keep my Award under the bushel until the young boy of mPesa shows up and is appropriately recognized and feted. Even better, I'll rejoice more when another Kenyan/African evolves a product superior to mPesa. Identifying, nurturing and retaining talent is the magic that propelled Singapore to greatness. Rwanda is reading from the same script as Eng. Rogers will confirm. Southern Sudan too is taking cue.<br><br>Aluta continua, and best rgrds,<br>Shem</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Rogers Ngotwa <ngotwa@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> NVK-Mageuzi@yahoogroups.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, 13 December, 2010 9:59:51<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [NVK-Mageuzi] Honouring the man who linked Kenya to world.<br></font><br><span> </span>
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<div>Ndugu Shem;</div>
<div>Let me also join the growing number of Kenyan in congratulating you for your role in bringing about Internet in Kenya. Given the conditions at that particular time, you indeed deserve the recognition and hence the medal of Honour.</div>
<div>Best wishes.</div>
<div>With regards</div>
<div>Rogers Ngotwa<br></div>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Evans MACHERA <evansmachera@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> NVK-Mageuzi@yahoogroups.com; YOUNG PROFESSIONALS <youngprofessionals_ke@googlegroups.com>; KENYA ONLINE <kenyaonline@yahoogroups.com>; Vugu Vugu <vuguvugumashinani@yahoogroups.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> PICTA Kenya-LIst <picta-kenya@yahoogroups.com>; NYCIV Group <nyciv@googlegroups.com>; ProgressiveMinds <ProgressiveMinds@yahoogroups.com>; Madaraka Party <madaraka-kenya@yahoogroups.com>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sun, December 12, 2010 5:14:47 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [NVK-Mageuzi] Honouring the man who linked Kenya to world.<br></font><br><span> </span>
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<td valign="top"><br>Dr.Ochuodho.<br><br>I wish to register my congrats to Dr.Shem Ochuodho as he receives and appreciates the Honour and his recognition.<br><br>As a read the Local Daily Newspaper that carried the story,my thought could not help but went round and about Dr.Shem the Politician ( one time Mp for Rangwe) and Dr.Shem Ochuodho the Professional.<br><br>My heart settled on the professional since in professionalism,one comes up with an initiative that changes the whole world if not part of it as opposed to a politician who is sometimes entangled in episodes that decolourise his good side to the extent of soiling the career life picture already made or burrying it wholly.<br><br>I take the liberty to question thus; <span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255);">Should Professionals seek elective posts i.e Mp!</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255);"><br><br>Thanks to you all.<br><br>Evans MACHERA.<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 12/12/10, PAUL GITONGA
<i><gpmaina@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);"><br>From: PAUL GITONGA <gpmaina@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [NVK-Mageuzi] Honouring the man who linked Kenya to world (was Update on Arrangements for Kisumu Reunion – December 21-23rd, 2010)<br>To: NVK-Mageuzi@yahoogroups.com<br>Cc: "PICTA Kenya-LIst" <picta-kenya@yahoogroups.com>, "NYCIV Group" <nyciv@googlegroups.com>, "ProgressiveMinds" <ProgressiveMinds@yahoogroups.com>, "Madaraka Party" <madaraka-kenya@yahoogroups.com>, "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br>Date: Sunday, December 12, 2010, 6:55 AM<br><br>
<div class="plainMail">Daktari,<br><br>You are a legend.<br><br>I cannot begin to fathom how life would be without the internet, and<br>you being the person who was instrumental in bringing this concept to<br>kenya, is just incredible.<br><br>Keep up the good work, and keep contributing to the society.<br><br>God bless you and congratulations!<br><br>Paul<br>On 12/12/10, Shem Ochuodho <<a rel="nofollow">shemochuodho@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Madada Philo na Betty,<br>><br>> Ahsanteni for the pongezi's. It was re-freshening to know the CTO<br>> (Commonwealth<br>> Telecom Organization <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cto.int/">www.cto.int</a>) domiciled in London, with current CEO<br>> being<br>> Ghana's former Minister for Communication (Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah) could<br>> remember<br>> some of Africa's Unsung Heroes. I am working on a book with that name to<br>> catalogue the evolution of Internet in
Africa -
perhaps we should look for<br>> royalties from FaceBook, Google, mPesa, YouTube, SEACOM, etc! But the<br>> efforts<br>> could not have borne fruit without the inputs of several other people,<br>> including<br>> the techies who alongside Randy Bush burnt mid-night oil (Dr Martin Koyabe -<br>> now<br>> with British Telecoms, Paul Olendo now @UN, Alfred Orimbo, etc) - for<br>> several<br>> nights - to get it all work on Kenya's/indeed Africa's then real terrible<br>> phone<br>> lines.<br>><br>> In the same vein, without Steve Goldstein of the US National Science<br>> Foundation<br>> (who provided the boxes and technology) and Peter Sutherland of UK's<br>> Overseas<br>> Development Agency (ODA now DfID) who took up the initial leased line phone<br>> bills - used to cost US$ 16,000 (yes, 16k) per month for just a mere 64KBps<br>> pipe<br>> - it wouldn't have happened.<br>><br>> When in 2000
CSK (Computer Society of Kenya) felt I deserved 'Father of<br>> Internet<br>> in Kenya' title, I dedicated the award to three people: Amb. Dr Benjamin<br>> Kipkorir (then Kenya's Ambassador in Washington), Micah Cheserem (then<br>> Governor,<br>> Central Bank), Brig. (Rtd) Wilson Boinnett (then DG, NSIS aka Special<br>> Branch).<br>> Without these guys' intervention, the KANU regime of the time wouldn't have<br>> allowed Internet to happen. Not that they didn't try to block it - the then<br>> Head<br>> of Public Service wrote a letter (I have a souvenir copy) to all PS's, Heads<br>> of<br>> Military, Special Branch, etc warning them not to connect to<br>> ARCC/Internet/UNEP<br>> without direct approval from his office. That partly explains why these<br>> three<br>> Kenyan Wazalendo's perhaps deserve these awards more than I.<br>><br>> Last but not least, Jeddy and the kids who allowed me to use one
of the<br>> family<br>> bedrooms for initial tests when sections of the University felt by staying<br>> late<br>> in the labs night, we had 'lots of idle time and needed to be given more<br>> teaching load' had denied us space to do the experiments. But all the Glory<br>> must<br>> always go to God the Almighty, Allah - the One and Only!<br>><br>> For those who missed the story (courtesy Visioner Augustine Oduor), you can<br>> access it on:<br><span><span>> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/news/InsidePage.php?id=2000024440&cid=159&story=Honouring%20the%20man%20who%20linked%20Kenya%20to%20world">http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/news/InsidePage.php?id=2000024440&cid=159&story=Honouring%20the%20man%20who%20linked%20Kenya%20to%20world</a>.</span></span><br>><br>><br>> Best rgrds,<br>> Shem<br>> 2010 CTO/GoSS African Internaut (Internet Pioneer) Award
Recipient<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> ________________________________<br>> From: Philo Ikonya <<a rel="nofollow">philonikonya@yahoo.com</a>><br>> To: <a rel="nofollow">NVK-Mageuzi@yahoogroups.com</a><br>> Sent: Sat, 11 December, 2010 18:51:39<br>> Subject: Re: [NVK-Mageuzi] Update on Arrangements for Kisumu Reunion –<br>> December<br>> 21-23rd, 2010<br>><br>><br>> Adhiambo,<br>><br>> thanks very much for letting me know.. I did not know.. Congrats Shem. You<br>> did<br>> not say it even as I was telling you of my little works?\<br>><br>> Philo<br>><br>><br>><br>> Aung San Suu Kyi cannot be silenced because she speaks the truth and<br>> because<br>> her words reflect basic Burmese and universal concepts - Vaclav Havel<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> --- On Fri, 12/10/10, Betty Otieno <<a
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width:400px;}
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text-decoration:none;}
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.replbq {
margin:4px;}
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font:99% Arial, Helvetica, clean, sans-serif;}
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padding-bottom:10px;}
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color:#1E66AE;}
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font-family:Verdana;}
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color:#1E66AE;font-weight:700;}
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color:#ff7900;font-weight:700;}
#ygrp-reco {
margin-bottom:20px;padding:0px;}
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font-size:130%;text-decoration:none;}
#ygrp-sponsor #ov li {
font-size:77%;list-style-type:square;padding:6px 0;}
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margin:0;padding:0 0 0 8px;}
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font-family:Georgia;}
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margin:0 0 1em 0;}
#ygrp-text tt {
font-size:120%;}
#ygrp-vital ul li:last-child {
border-right:none !important;
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