<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><div>Good people of the Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet). I spelt out the name to bring out the philosophy of the network…"Action". Unfortunately in the last few years we have not lived to the philosophy of the network and turned into an ordinary busy discussion list. The network gained its clout and reputation by actually taking on policy issues and inputing directly into them and presenting the network position paper/document to the relevant offices/officers followed by serious lobbying. This is how you can influence policy and make a contribution to the policy formulation of any government not just our GoK.</div><div><br></div><div>If the network truly wants to make a contribution, and I don't mean criticizing everything that government does and what others are offering to do, the secretariat with the assistance of members needs to develop a position paper on the policy pronouncement based on the documentation provided for in the Jubilee Manifesto. The position paper should provide answers to the many questions being asked and provide recommendations of how this policy can be implemented. The draft can be circulated on this list for further input before it is presented to the relevant offices. A sub committee should then be formed and tasked with follow up and lobbying to make sure that the recommendations in the position paper are taken into account, or better still the position paper of turned into the "Government Policy" itself.</div><div><br></div><div>As the madman of the list (aka Bobby Yaweh) said, Government works through documents, so to get their attention, create a document!</div><div><br></div><div>Action 101.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Harry Hare</font></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#919191"><font class="Apple-style-span"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Director </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">|</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; "> </span></span></font></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">African eDevelopment Resource Centre</span></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#919191"><font class="Apple-style-span"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">PO Box 49475 00100 </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">|</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; "> </span></span></font></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">Nairobi, Kenya </span></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#919191"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Tel +254 20 4041646 </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">|</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; "> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Cel +254 725 650044</span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><img src="cid:F732B55C-B904-4F2A-A584-D3470F039544" type="image/png"></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Barrack Otieno <<a href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Wed, 5 Jun 2013 09:37:06 +0300<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Cio_Magazine Hare <<a href="mailto:harry@africanedevelopment.org">harry@africanedevelopment.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>>, "<a href="mailto:isoc@orion.my.co.ke">isoc@orion.my.co.ke</a>" <<a href="mailto:isoc@orion.my.co.ke">isoc@orion.my.co.ke</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [kictanet] President Kenyatta secures Microsoft support for computers<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Agreed Bobby, <br><br></div>Are you suggesting an occupy parliament sort of move *Hides*, Matogo's Strathmore offer sounds better maybe you can be the Master of Ceremony and Walu the Moderator any takers/suggestions for panelists?, i agree with the kind of energy demonstrated on the list there are many stakeholders itching to do something and we need a middle ground or a win win situation for that matter.<br><br></div>Best Regards<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 9:28 AM, robert yawe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">Hi Barrack,<br><br>What we need is a 6 year old who is going to class 1 next
year to perform an eloquent poem on what he/she expects when they arrive
in class next year with their new electronic learning device (ELD)in hand.<br><br>It is unfortunate that even you have decided to take the side road, we have had months to take a position on this issue but as usual we have preferred +1s instead of actually doing something tangible. <br><br>What do we expect the President to do when he asks for help and the only people who come to his aid are Microsoft and elk. If you have not noticed the iPad disappeared on day 2 of his term in the same way that Obama's blackberry vanished, the President is and never was on this forum so to get his ear we must go where his attention is, the Cabinet Secretary (CS) has also vanished from this digital domain and gone to the analogue world where government lives and where only documents in hard copy are considered.<br><br>I like the way Dr. Ndemo scuttled discussions by insisting that we include the ministry and kie on John Matogo's initiative to host a
discussion, John also made the error of asking for financial support of this forum, which has proven itself to be a tweet shop.<br><br><div><span>Regards</span></div><span><br></span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span>The show is not over until the plus sized person sings. (had to make it politically correct)<br></span><div> </div><div>Robert Yawe<br>KAY System Technologies Ltd<br>Phoenix House, 6th Floor<br>P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200<br>Kenyag<br><br></div><div>Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696<br> <div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">
<div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Barrack Otieno <<a href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com" target="_blank">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a> <br><div class="im"><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>>; "<a href="mailto:isoc@orion.my.co.ke" target="_blank">isoc@orion.my.co.ke</a>" <<a href="mailto:isoc@orion.my.co.ke" target="_blank">isoc@orion.my.co.ke</a>> <br>
</div><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 4 June 2013, 15:09<div class="im"><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kictanet] President Kenyatta secures Microsoft support for
computers<br> </div></font> </div> <div><div><div class="h5"><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Walu,<br><br></div>I think its time we focused on other issues, seems this project is a foregone conclusion. We will take stock in 2017.<br><br></div>Best Regards<br></div><div><br><br><div>On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Walubengo J <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com" target="_blank">jwalu@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><div>Whao!</div><div><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
When I grow up, I want to work for M$oft :-)</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
Sounds like they are concluding the deal to be on 1million laptops next year - as we are busy tweeting on what Software is relevant for pupils in Standard one. Read on</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
@ <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Uhuru-secures-Microsoft-support-for-computers/-/1056/1871904/-/7i517tz/-/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Uhuru-secures-Microsoft-support-for-computers/-/1056/1871904/-/7i517tz/-/index.html</a><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
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