Happy Wednesday! I came across this quote and it relays a powerful message: “Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?” ― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995 While institutions are bigger than the respective individuals, it takes dialogue and the appreciation that each as a whole unit make a bigger contribution together when a vision is shared notwithstanding the entity each represents. e.g. improving lives through the access to the internet and thus: - ensuring that myriads of budding entrepreneurs have access to the internet to ensure that you can access their unique products - ensuring that millions of Kenyan jobseekers have access to the internet and thus an opportunity to reach their dream job - ensuring that young mothers and fathers have access to the internet to obtain emergency medical interventions and first aid tips to save the lives of their young (unborn) babies The big question here would be whether there is a vision and whether it is shared? Until this is the case, sideshows take the stage. Whether it is an oxy-moron (all pun intended...) - It is if we choose to focus on the sideshows. As with other issues, what is not working - is dealt with as is. While what is working is strengthened. We truly have bigger issues in Kenya (relating to the internet) and each privileged to be reading this needs to shift their eyes onto them with the capabilities vide the institutions at hand. Have a pleasant evening. Regards/Wangari --- Pray God Bless. 2012Wangari circa - "Heaven moves into the world through thespirit of those who are willing to serve". --- On Wed, 25/7/12, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> wrote: From: Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> Subject: [ISOC_KE] Multistakeholderism is it an oxymoron? will it survive the times? To: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>, isoc@lists.my.co.ke, "skunkworks" <skunkworks@my.co.ke> Date: Wednesday, 25 July, 2012, 16:09 Listers, I have been observing various initiatives that have been established under the multistakeholder approach and i must admit that we have a problem there are lots of murmurs suggesting flaws in communication or decision making structures, i i have also noticed that there is a lot of emphasis on personalities and groupings of like minded people as opposed to institutions which appears really harmful at the beginning but is characterised by strained relationships which stifflle synergies that can be achieved through knowledge and information sharing based on experiences. Could this be the very achilles heel of the multistakeholder model? What should we do to redeem it? Best Regards -- Barrack O. Otieno+254721325277+254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otienohttp://www.otienobarrack.me.ke/ -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ isoc mailing list isoc@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc