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<body><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>From Walu on our town hall last week:</div><div><br></div><div><h5 style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: ColfaxBold, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;">IN SUMMARY</h5><div style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: knowledgemedium, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: knowledgemedium, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 30px; list-style-position: inside;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 10px 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(202, 202, 202);">So last week, Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTAnet) hosted what is possibly the first town hall meeting with Members of Parliament – specifically the Parliamentary Committee on ICT.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 10px 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(202, 202, 202);">More often than not, MPs meet citizens in only two settings – during election campaigns and during formal stakeholder engagement sessions at Parliament buildings.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 10px 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(202, 202, 202);">Participants from media, academia, civil society, private sector, youth, etc. asked questions and shared ICT experiences and subsequently got honest feedback from MPs.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 10px 0px; border: none;">It was evident that this sort of meetings with parliamentary committees in charge of various sectors should be encouraged and regularised.</li></ul></div></div><a href="https://mobile.nation.co.ke/blogs/1949942-5354120-7bdgkj/index.html">https://mobile.nation.co.ke/blogs/1949942-5354120-7bdgkj/index.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best regards<br>
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Grace Githaiga<br>
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Grace Githaiga<br>
Co-Convenor, Kenya ICT Action Network</div><br></div></body></html>