Hey Branton,
Welcome to the community.
With repards to involving other stakeholders in the schools project, we've been in talks with various institutions among them being the ministry of education, KU (in its capacity as a leading university when it comes to producing professionals in the education sector), ICT board, Google Kenya among others who are willing to assist where they can.
Another important issue you've also raised is what next after the pilot. Ans: we'll have to measure the success of the pilot and use it as a guide line of rolling the project countrywide. Other things to concider will probably be involving other stakeholders as you mentioned.
I think it would also be great if we could involve some schools that participated in the pilot when we launch the project countrywide.
Hope to hear more from USIU guys.
Cheers. Alex.
On Tue Jan 25th, 2011 8:24 AM PST BRANTON OBWARI wrote:
Great work guys! , maybe an introduction would do, am a graduate of Bsc IST at USIU i attended a talk by Ting and Anne Njeri @ I hub with techie community , i actually come from Kakamega n its environs, been in touch with Oscar , i have a feeling for us to fully explore the opportunities available after the pilot program a multi sectoral approach with a centralized control is the way fwd. Education in .KE involves many stake holders, ministry ,churches , private owners,politicians, and this being a noble idea am very sure some of them would have wished to come on board,take a case where an area MP would want to incorporate the CDF in this program for the good of this constituents.what i mean is Abbas and the group should come up of ways of integrating progressive forces into to the Wiki for schools projects. i also think we should be clear on the mandates of such forces and how their efforts maybe controlled by the office for accountability and record purposes,having said this there is also a need to have a formal meeting on the same
Regards,
Branton Obwari.
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Alex Wafula xelawafs@yahoo.com wrote:
That's why I need response from guys before the end of the day. I was there for the past 2 Saturdays and there were no events held so I'm hoping it's going to be the same this week.
Plus we can always find another venue if it'ls booked. I'll ping Tosh in a minute, but I need confirmation from guys on whether there's going to be a meeting.
On Tue Jan 25th, 2011 4:49 AM PST Abbas Mahmoud wrote:
I can avail myself this weekend, but didn't Tosh tell us that we need to
book at least 2 weeks in advance?
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 04:20:36 -0800 From: xelawafs@yahoo.com To: oliver_stegen@sil.org; wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Need for a structure
Hey Oliver,
Sorry for the confusion on the sites. We decided to move stuff from the
meta to wikimedia.or.ke after the domain was set up. So the plan no is to work from here. Here's the link to the schools project page:
wikimedia.or.ke/Wikipedia_for_Schools_Project
As for guys who won't be able to make it for the pilot, hope this to be
part of the agenda for the meetup I've proposed.
The visit to the girls school in Nakuru souunds great and we can
probably organize for this.
So how about the meetup guys?
alex.
On Mon Jan 24th, 2011 11:36 PM PST Oliver Stegen wrote:
Glad to see things moving ahead.
To be honest, I'm a bit confused about the different websites where
things
seem to be posted (e.g. haven't found Sam's Wikimedia schools project
update
yet); between meta.wikimedia.org and wikimedia.or.ke, things have
become a
bit complicated imho.
Second, to reply to Alex' suggestion for a much needed meeting: Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it on Saturday (that's my kids' schoolparty day). But please go ahead - a meeting is urgently needed!
Also, how do you envisage involvement in the wikipedia for schools
project
for guys like me who, for job and family reasons, cannot leave Nairobi
for
an entire week (okay, so maybe, I'm the only one). As Abbas reminded us
that
schools are empty on weekends, when it comes to Mon-Fri, I could spare
two
days in February to accompany a team to a school. Originally, Nairobi
had
been on the map (when the pilot was still going for four and not three regions). I don't see how I could go to either of the three locations (Mombasa, Njeri or Kakamega) for one day only. Should you plan to visit
a
school in Nairobi, however, I'd be happy to assist.
Also, while in South Africa last week, I got to know Mr. Walter
Chemjor,
who's a teacher at AIC Morop Girls Secondary School (it's adjacent to Kabarak University near Nakuru). They have a journalism club which uses
the
internet for research but connectivity is slow. To cut a long story
short,
they'd be very interested to have a team come up to Nakuru and
introduce
them to the wikipedia for schools CD. That's something I could probably volunteer for - driving a team up to Nakuru for a day and participate
in
introducing Morop Girls to wikipedia.
All for now, and cheers! Oliver (aka BT)
-----Original Message----- From: wikimediake-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediake-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Alex
Wafula
Sent: 25 January 2011 06:48 To: coolsam726@gmail.com; wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Need for a structure
Pilot overview: a group of 6 people per region. Since we have 10
schools
teams are further to split into groups of 3, each group covering a
school
per day.
Seems like we need a meetup. If you guys can make it this Saturday, let
me
know latest today so that I can request for space at ihub.
Alex
On Mon Jan 24th, 2011 11:23 AM PST SAMSON MAOSA wrote:
Alex, Abbas, most of us seem to find a collision between the project
and
internships, the most affected being guys from JKUAT and we have to
resolve
this as soon as possible. Please share your views on that
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Alex Wafula xelawafs@yahoo.com
wrote:
> thought so too :), the page has been set up as ' > Wikipedia_for_Schools_Project' instead by Sam > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Manuel Schneider manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch > > *To:* The discussion list for the upcoming Wikimedia Kenya chapter.
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FOR
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