<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Dear Listers, </span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Welome to the third and final day of the Talk to the Senate series. We have discussed at length the challenges facing the counties and made exciting proposals for a brighter future. We will culminate this discussion with an earnest look at how we can foster engagements between the ICT community and the legislature (think, effective public participation). The proposals we come up with could very easily be adopted into a Public Participation Bill that would dictate how counties are to conduct public participation, talk about killing two birds with one stone. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">Please indulge me in answering the following questions–</font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">(a) What constitutes effective public participation? </font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">(b) How can we leverage on ICT to achieve effective public participation?</font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">(c) Please give proposals on engagements you would like to see between the ICT community and the Senate ICT Committee. </font></span></div></blockquote><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Let us finish strong! </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>