Another thing, the list doesn't identify which of the schools have computer labs and which don't.
Ps: will we be targetting secondary or primary schools, or both
On Thu Oct 28th, 2010 12:49 AM PDT Abbas Mahmoud wrote:
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>Hi folks,
>
>I've managed to get a list of schools in Kenya on Wikipedia:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_schools_in_Kenya
>
>Problem is, I can't differentiate public from private schools using the list.
>
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>Abbas.
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Hi folks,
I've managed to get a list of schools in Kenya on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_schools_in_Kenya
Problem is, I can't differentiate public from private schools using the list.
--
Abbas.
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Feel free to contact me:
Abbas Mahmood
Tel: +254722215101
Facebook: abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com
Skype: Abbasjnr
Wikimedia Kenya Member
"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's our commitment."
Please donate: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/Now/en
Dear Alex
Attached please find two lists of schools. There are schools that feature in both lists and some that do not. Sifting through the two lists will give you about 300 schools you can target for your programme. Other are the 18 National Primary Teachers Training Colleges and two national Diploama Teachers Training Colleges (kibabii Teachers College and Kagumo Teachers College)
About your proposed wikimedia programme, after the verbal presentation you made to me, I felt it was a good and timely idea. However Alex, remember my advice to you after the presentation: you need to seek the Ministry's (written) approval for your programme. This you do by writing to the PS, Ministry of Education. Remember to include an elaborate brief for the PS to understand your proposed programme.
On the issue of the Ministry co-financing your programme. This should be sought from the same authority via a proposal. the proposal should be as elaborate as possible and should clearly stipulate the roles and responsibilities of each partner in the programme. This will then be evaluated against the Ministry's policies, strategies, goals and availability of funds.
Regards
Mboguah, S.
Hi Abbas,
With the list, I figure we should finalize on our budget as well as the framework for this project.
>From there, we can move to seek approval from the PS office. As for a meetup with Ministry officials, I think we can initialize this after preparing the project's brief for the PS
Mboguah, thanks for the support so far, it's been awesome. If you also have a list for the private schools, please forward it to us.
Regards,
Alex
On Wed Oct 27th, 2010 4:06 AM PDT Abbas Mahmoud wrote:
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>Dear Alex,
>
>thank you so much for getiing us the list. Could you please liaise with the Ministry to give you a list of all the private schools countrywide as well?
>
>Secondly, (and this is a suggestion), IMHO, I think that the meeting should be pushed forward to next week; this is because, according to Mbugua, we really need to have an organised and elaborate proposal for the Ministry to be satisfied and hence support us.. At the moment, we haven't yet settled on the budget as well as the methodology(that would elaborate each member's tasks).
>
>Sincerely
>Abbas.
>
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>From: smbugua(a)education.go.ke
>To: xelawafs(a)yahoo.com
>Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:40:39 +0300
>CC: ictintegration(a)education.go.ke; wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>Subject: [Wikimedia Kenya] LIST OF SCHOOLS WITH NETWORKED COMPUTER LAB
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>
>Dear Alex
>
>Attached please find two lists of schools. There are schools that feature in both lists and some that do not. Sifting through the two lists will give you about 300 schools you can target for your programme. Other are the 18 National Primary Teachers Training Colleges and two national Diploama Teachers Training Colleges (kibabii Teachers College and Kagumo Teachers College)
>About your proposed wikimedia programme, after the verbal presentation you made to me, I felt it was a good and timely idea. However Alex, remember my advice to you after the presentation: you need to seek the Ministry’s (written) approval for your programme. This you do by writing to the PS, Ministry of Education. Remember to include an elaborate brief for the PS to understand your proposed programme.
>On the issue of the Ministry co-financing your programme. This should be sought from the same authority via a proposal. the proposal should be as elaborate as possible and should clearly stipulate the roles and responsibilities of each partner in the programme. This will then be evaluated against the Ministry’s policies, strategies, goals and availability of funds.
>
>
>Regards
>
>Mboguah, S.
>_______________________________________________ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Hi Abbas,
With the list, I figure we should finalize on our budget as well as the framework for this project.
>From there, we can move to seek approval from the PS office. As for a meetup with Ministry officials, I think we can initialize this after preparing the project's brief for the PS
Mboguah, thanks for the support so far, it's been awesome. If you also have a list for the private schools, please forward it to us.
Regards,
Alex
On Wed Oct 27th, 2010 4:06 AM PDT Abbas Mahmoud wrote:
>
>Dear Alex,
>
>thank you so much for getiing us the list. Could you please liaise with the Ministry to give you a list of all the private schools countrywide as well?
>
>Secondly, (and this is a suggestion), IMHO, I think that the meeting should be pushed forward to next week; this is because, according to Mbugua, we really need to have an organised and elaborate proposal for the Ministry to be satisfied and hence support us.. At the moment, we haven't yet settled on the budget as well as the methodology(that would elaborate each member's tasks).
>
>Sincerely
>Abbas.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>From: smbugua(a)education.go.ke
>To: xelawafs(a)yahoo.com
>Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:40:39 +0300
>CC: ictintegration(a)education.go.ke; wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>Subject: [Wikimedia Kenya] LIST OF SCHOOLS WITH NETWORKED COMPUTER LAB
>
>
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>
>Dear Alex
>
>Attached please find two lists of schools. There are schools that feature in both lists and some that do not. Sifting through the two lists will give you about 300 schools you can target for your programme. Other are the 18 National Primary Teachers Training Colleges and two national Diploama Teachers Training Colleges (kibabii Teachers College and Kagumo Teachers College)
>About your proposed wikimedia programme, after the verbal presentation you made to me, I felt it was a good and timely idea. However Alex, remember my advice to you after the presentation: you need to seek the Ministry’s (written) approval for your programme. This you do by writing to the PS, Ministry of Education. Remember to include an elaborate brief for the PS to understand your proposed programme.
>On the issue of the Ministry co-financing your programme. This should be sought from the same authority via a proposal. the proposal should be as elaborate as possible and should clearly stipulate the roles and responsibilities of each partner in the programme. This will then be evaluated against the Ministry’s policies, strategies, goals and availability of funds.
>
>
>Regards
>
>Mboguah, S.
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Hi folks,
I've got some exciting news: I've been in contact with Jimmy Wales, the Founder of Wikipedia and he showed some interest in our upcoming project. Below is the thread that we had:
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:54:15 +0800
From: jwales(a)wikia-inc.com
To: abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com
CC: jwales(a)wikia.com; jwalesassist(a)gmail.com
Subject: Please forward the text
How exciting!
Because I usually power through emails when I am offline (on a plane, etc.) it would be helpful to me if you could send me the text of the page that you reference, rather than just a link.
In general, I think the most effective thing that I can do is lend publicity support. What we could do is have me thoroughly study what you are proposing to do, when it will launch, and then we can ask the Foundation to assist with outreach to local media (although you will be better situated to do this directly I think, they can assist with supporting materials for the press, etc.)
Additionally, if you need help getting an audience with a high-level minister, then it is often possible for me to organize that, setting up a phone call in which I would be the "bait" to get them to accept the call but you or another WM Kenya representative joining the call to give the actual substance of the proposal.
And of course, a personal visit from me usually generates a lot of press headlines and awareness, and I would be eager to do that, as I have never visited Kenya. However, due to the extreme demands on my time, it is unlikely that I will be able to come to Kenya anytime before next summer at the earliest. So we should add this to a "wish list" but proceed with other plans first.
--Jimbo
On 10/25/10 6:55 PM, Abbas Mahmoud wrote:
Hi Jimmy,
How are you doing? Remember me, the Kenyan/Swahili Wikipedian that you interviewed in Poland?
Anyway, I'd like to inform you that there has been a small, but relatively motivated bunch of Wikipedians here in Kenya that decided to start up a Wikimedia Kenya chapter. See:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Kenya. We've managed to achieve impressive progress so far, drafted the bylaws and submitted them to the Wikimedia Foundation Chapters Committee for approval. However, we decided not to just sit and wait for the committee to approve us. We therefore have been discussing an upcoming Wikipedia Project targeted at primary and secondary schools in Kenya. Please see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Kenya/Project_for_Kenyan_Schools for more details. (I know that this proposal is abit of a skeleton at the moment, but we're still gathering some facts and we'll beef it up in due course.)
Is there any form of support that we could get from you?
Warm regards,
Abbas Mahmoud.
A Kenyan aviation enthusiast builds aeroplane in the front yard using
instructions downloaded from Wikipedia, says Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/26/kenya-plane-homemade
Do you think the project might have been Wikibooks? Perhaps we should
recruit him to help us with the Wikimedia Kenya Project. Great
publicity! :)
Yours sincerely,
Anirudh Bhati
00 91 9328712208
Skype: anirudhsbh
Yah, great work Abbas. The doc's covered all the major areas concerning the project.
I figure the next step is in determining the number of schools we'll be visiting so as to come up with a budget and assign teams to various schools.
I can setup a meeting with MoE this comming week to get the list and discuss possible funding by the Ministry.
Let me know if it's cool with you and if you can make it.
Cheers!
Alex!
On Sat Oct 23rd, 2010 8:04 AM PDT Limoke Oscar wrote:
>Great work Abbas,Bhati
>Let me review it.Will share out my thoughts over the same.II can see a
>map in there and am so thrilled.Once again great work guys and hats
>off to all of you.
>
>On 10/23/10, Abbas Mahmoud <abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I actually just copied and pasted their names. Some of them might have
>> usernames.
>>
>>> From: anirudhsbh(a)gmail.com
>>> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 19:56:32 +0530
>>> To: wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Proposed Wikipedia for Schools Project.
>>>
>>> Hi Samson, they are all welcome to join in and create an account for
>>> themselves.
>>>
>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup
>>>
>>> Anirudh Bhati
>>>
>>> 00 91 9328712208
>>> Skype: anirudhsbh
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 7:54 PM, SAMSON MAOSA <coolsam726(a)gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi Bhati, I wonder whether the other initial members are members of
>>> > meta,
>>> > because I can't see their usernames.
>>> >
>>> > On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 4:22 PM, SAMSON MAOSA <coolsam726(a)gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> That is so wonderful Abbas, I will will make my revisions shortly.
>>> >> Anirudh, thanks for the meta. If there is anything I can do just tell
>>> >> me
>>> >>
>>> >> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Anirudh Bhati <anirudhsbh(a)gmail.com>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Abbas Mahmoud <abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com>
>>> >>> wrote:
>>> >>> > We don't have a domain at the moment:-(
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > is it possible to put it on meta?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Kenya
>>> >>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Kenya/Project_for_Kenyan_Schools
>>> >>>
>>> >>> ^__^
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Anirudh Bhati
>>> >>>
>>> >>> >
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>>> >> Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology,
>>> >> Bsc. Electronics and Computer Engineering
>>> >> +254750917305
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Samson Arosi Maosa,
>>> > Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology,
>>> > Bsc. Electronics and Computer Engineering
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Impressive work Abbas. I can try and avail myself for the meeting... let me know when it will be and I'll see if i can make it.
yours sincerely,
Dennis
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> Hi,
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> Indeed, such a great plan requires operation under a legal structure
> possibly as a society. This link shows how to go about registering a society
> in Kenya
>
> http://www.attorney-general.go.ke/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id…
> .
>
> Yours Faithfully,
>
> Wangai Mwangi.
>
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Anirudh Bhati <anirudhsbh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Have you given a thought on the kind of legal structure that would be
> > most suitable for the purpose of a Wikimedia Chapter in Kenya? For
> > instance, a registered trust or a Society or a charity registered
> > under the Companies statute. I think Abbas would follow up on this
> > question, and it would be wonderful if everyone chipped in with their
> > ideas. Thanks!
> >
> > Yours sincerely,
> >
> > Anirudh Bhati
> >
> > 00 91 9328712208
> > Skype: anirudhsbh
> >
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> > WikimediaKE(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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Hi all,
Have you given a thought on the kind of legal structure that would be
most suitable for the purpose of a Wikimedia Chapter in Kenya? For
instance, a registered trust or a Society or a charity registered
under the Companies statute. I think Abbas would follow up on this
question, and it would be wonderful if everyone chipped in with their
ideas. Thanks!
Yours sincerely,
Anirudh Bhati
00 91 9328712208
Skype: anirudhsbh