On Wednesday, September 28, 2011, Abbas Mahmood <
abbasjnr@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> To be precise, the session that we attended yesterday was "Economic aspects of local content creation and local Internet infrastructure" .
> I was initially invited by Florence as a panelist to this session, but unfortunately, due to miscommunication, it didn't happen. Anyway, on the panel we had some folks from Google, UNESCO, Egypt and the Kenyan government -- each talking about their various efforts to promote local content creation. I'll try and trace some of the meeting notes and post them to the mailing list.
> I've just arrived at the IGF today and I'm in a session on Emerging Issues. BTW, I've also met Branton Obwari -- so he'll probably give us an update on the sessions he's attending.
> Sincerely,
> Abbas Mahmood,
> Learners' Voice 2011 Member: World Innovation Summit for Education
>
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> From:
wanjaustev@gmail.com > Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10 <tel:2011%2010>:07:50 +0300> To:
wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wikimedia Kenya] IGF
>
> Hi Nice People,
>
> I am happy to report to you some few details that were talked about at a session that I was privileged to attend at the IGF (Internet Governance Forum). I am attending the conference as an expediter and where it suites I double up as a Wikimedian….: P
>
> On that notable note, there was a session that was about local content on the internet .One of the participants described the internet as a key player in making content available. To me I see it as Creation (writing articles uses internet), preservation (saving on WMF servers, uses internet), dissemination (ISPs) and utilization of data (internet users accessing the data).
>
> But it was noted that the internet is only relevant to the locals if we have home-grown content on the internet.
>
> Wikipedia was also mentioned more than a few times where it was being used to survey the article viewed per language and in what region.
>