Dear All,
Thank you for all the useful contributions towards documenting our discussions
and diseminating to the appropriate audience/authorities. I think before we
address ourselves to any authority, our identity should be clear. We arent a
registered body at the moment. We participate in these discussions as
individuals and as a network of concerned/interested sons and daughters of the
soil.
In my opinion for now the outcome of our discussions can be published in the
newspapers, websites and , as Denis suggested on FM stations. In other words we
should be targeting the media through which our voices can reach the
responsible/affected/impacted.
The other option may be to introduce a periodic bulletin which can be
published and circulated widely for people to read our views on some of the
issues affecting us.
Regards
Joel
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:59:32 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [WestNileNet] Re: Response to Arumadri's queries on documentation
Joel and Jackson,
Thank you for volunteering to let us win even if it means slowing down your
journey. My view is that, final documents should be PDF with copyrights to the
forum to minimize electronic tempering.
As for the target group, it’s quite broad. As issues at hand may from time to
time dictate, we should focus on decision and policy makers, opinion leaders,
and businessmen (SMEs), politicians, and the rural population for issues
involving change of attitude.
Letters detailing our fears, expectations, and views should always be written
to offices we deem concerned with our views. This would be ideal for dealing
with policy makers. However issues regarding our authority to demand of such
people certain actions may arise. I would encourage use of radios stations for
mass campaigns or sanitization programmes. Our local FM stations have community
programmes which can air out some of our views free of charge—meaning we'll
only need press releases, discussants, and programming with different FM
stations. There is already Agbatara (public debate) on Arua One FM which is
mostly used to discuss political feelings rather than development. Why can't
we tap into such?
Conferences, workshops, and seminars involving various stakeholders can also
help disseminate information. This will come at cost but we should be able to
make small contributions as Jackson suggested once the need for a
workshop/conference is concretized. As there are public libraries in West Nile,
some of our reports can be printed and availed in such libraries.
Besides, creating a website remains unprecedented opportunity for publication
of our documents and to address other concerns we may have. Partnering with
organizations such as West Nile Rural Development Agency (www.weniruda.org),
CEFORD, www.Tualu.org, West Nile Private Sector Foundation, etc can boost
dissemination and implementation of our views. These organizations already have
groups and other structures we could use in addition to their websites for
publication of our views. At this point, may I also suggest engagement of
mostly idle offices of our District Information Officers to coordinate
dissemination of agreed upon views?
As far as Joel’s security is concerned, we need legal opinion on how this
assignment can endanger his livelihood. I guess the right to publish and access
information is now widely recognized as a right. It is therefore incumbent on
us to avoid being defamatory statements.
At this juncture, allow me endorse Vasco’s suggestion that: every issue should
have a moderator. I add, whoever introduces an issue should be able to moderate
with help of experts unless a volunteer comes up. An issue should be discussed
for a maximum of two weeks after which issue summary be produced by the
moderating team or Mr. Arumadri for scrutiny/reactions by members. A maximum of
three issues should be discussed in two weeks. A vote on this? All
announcements be routed via the moderator at a known email address.
Unless a guideline exists or founders of this forum can guarantee availability
of one in the new future, I would like to volunteer to prepare one, subject to
approval of members for regulating our discussion on this forum. This would
mitigate what others have called 'clogging' of inbox. It will rather been a
reactionary approach instead of a visionery one but we are a lot better doing
it late than never.
Cheers!
Denis Lee Oguzu
--- On Thu, 4/23/09, joel arumadri <[email protected]> wrote:
From: joel arumadri <[email protected]>
Subject: FW: [WestNileNet] Fwd: Documentation of Ideas discussed in the Forum
To: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009, 2:53 AM
Hi all out there,
For those of you who dont know me, I am Joel Arumadri working with the Nile
Basin Initiative in Entebbe, Uganda.
I am happy to become part of this network and thankyou to all those who
initiated it and those who have kept it hot.
Comming to documenting the salient issues discussed, I am willing to do so but
it will only make sense when the issues articulated by Vasco are addressed.
And secondly, once documented, where and how (media) would it published and who
are the targeted audience? Added to that, if there are cost implications for
publishing how do we handle?
As as far as moderation is concerned, we should be addressing ourselves to
focussed views on the issue under discussion, the likely impacts and
suggestions on intenventions.
Such a structuring willl ease documentation.
Best regards,
Joel
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: FW: [WestNileNet] Fwd: Documentation of Ideas discussed in the Forum
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:45:09 +0300
DearJoel,
Suggestion for you and your response to some of the issues raised.
Dear Kiggs,
Could you provide Joel previous discussions/communications on the net.
Regards
Ronald
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".
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