One should not negate issues from the West Nilers in the diaspora, after all they have contributed in their own way and best way they can to the region. Their remittance plus the tax they pay in the countries they are in and contributions to the communities in various forms. Mp's and councillors in that region are elected and paid to address alot of the issues that have been raised. Committees and local community groups , NGO's and grassroot organisations are there to also work within the community and constantly as is the case here in the UK, fill a gap and for many this is unpaid work and invest their time in a particular project , research or advocacy because they want to see change. So be mindful as to how you address others as you might just put them off.. People get in touch and communicate in ways that are suitable to them and often cost effective because of the valuable in. Alot of what l have read so far is what is addressed at community meetings over here. Same issues and needs, its the names , country and community that are different! Greetings to all, Kadara
--- On Tue, 21/4/09, robert obetia <[email protected]> wrote: From: robert obetia <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [WestNileNet] Fwd: Documentation of Ideas discussed in the Forum To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, 21 April, 2009, 11:29 AM #yiv1757135737 #yiv1229071481 .hmmessage P { margin:0px;padding:0px;} #yiv1757135737 #yiv1229071481 { font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;} BINGO! You are right. Sometimes one gets lost and especially when issues are discussed under in-appropriate Subeject (Title). With 69 emails per day - real issues can easily be swept to the bin. RObetia From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:30:27 +0300 CC: Subject: [WestNileNet] Fwd: Documentation of Ideas discussed in the Forum Begin forwarded message: From: Vasco Oguzua <[email protected]> Date: April 21, 2009 12:18:21 AM GMT+03:00 To: [email protected] Subject: Documentation of Ideas discussed in the Forum Ataanzi dika vini Ataaezo, I think the suggestion of documenting the salient points of the discussions we have on the forum Ronald Okuonzi is a great idea. Infact one of our sisters had already suggested this idea sometime back early March if I am not mistaken. I commend Joel Arumadri Alimo'dua for accepting the challenge to document some of the key ideas and/or suggestions. However, based on my observations on the nature and kind of the discussions we have on the forum, other than the issue of Poor Performance in our schools, non of the other issues we have discussed on the forum was ever conclusive. To our advantage, the poor performance in our schools issue coincided with or was within the time frame of the Ombaci (and I believe Mvara) Old Boys reunion occasion(s), as such that issue was addressed formally during those function(s) (if I am not mistaken someone can correct me on this). Documenting the discussion on the forum will not be an an easy task who Arumadri. The difficulty I express in in terms of my observation of the various issues we discuss almost at the same time and we never have a conclusive discussion on the issues we have discussed. The examples being, the Matego district issue, the loss of our brother in the hand of URA Officers in Koboko, the Barifa Land issue. In my view there was never a conclusive discussion on these issues we have discussed at length on the forum. To make the documentation of the discussions easier for documentation, I would like to suggest that for every issue or concern introduced in the forum for discussion, there should be a moderator who follows and moderates the discussion to its exhaustion. Secondly, we should try to discuss one issue at a time and come up with a conclusive agreeable actionable points so that salient points of the discussion are documented with a final overall summary of the discussion. It is also my view that we should take this forum very seriously to specifically talk about issues affecting our region and other issues from outside of the region should be something relevant or ideas which are relevant and applicable to the development of our region. I am saying this because I think I have read some irrelevant news and blogs on the forum. In terms of the available server storage space the network has allocated to the forum, such irrelevant blogs are absolute waste of resources. If we had a moderator, then such people who post such information should kindly be requested or redirected to stick to the issue in discussion. Lastly, perhaps Joel Arumadri who has volunteered to help can tell us, advise us or suggest to us how he thinks we can make the documentation of the discussions in the forum easier for him. I hope we can truly try to be a little better organized in this endeavour. I believe , "YES WE CAN". Windows Live Messenger makes it easier to stay in touch - learn how! -- Acta Virum Probant -- ---- Kiggundu Mukasa KYM-NET LTD. Plot 80 Kanjokya Street P.O. Box 24284 Kampala, Uganda Tel: +256 772 972255 +256 414 571779 Fax: +256 312 262122 http://kym.net Get news, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Check it out! -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ WestNileNet mailing list [email protected] http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet % WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. _______________________________________________
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