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 will be 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 are bound to arise. I would further 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 with costs 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 to such libraries. Besides, creating our own website remains unprecedented opportunity for publication of 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. 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 . It is therefore incumbent on us to avoid 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
________________________________ From: joel arumadri <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 12:53:27 PM Subject: FW: [WestNileNet] Fwd: Documentation of Ideas discussed in the Forum 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. 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