<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dear GG,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thank you for sharing the link as well as organising the town hall meeting. The interactions were great and no doubt such environments will see "multiskateholderism" thrive, in the interest of the larger community. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a class="gmail_plusreply" id="plusReplyChip-0" href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com" tabindex="-1">@J Walubengo</a> You articulated the discussion so well. Asante.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 11:53 AM Grace Githaiga via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div><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;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;font-family:knowledgemedium,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:knowledgemedium,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:5px 0px 30px;list-style-position:inside"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;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;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;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;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" target="_blank">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></div>
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