Dear Colleagues, WNF is an infant learning to walk. The chances that WNF will be able to fund Master degrees or PhD in near future is still remote but not impossible.
However, we are living in the 21 st century where information age is shaping the way we do business. If we promote teamwork and work persistently together to pursue some of the stated objective and dreams, by networking together and providing relevant information on overseas universities that offer scholarships for Master & PhD degree programs, People aspiring for advanced degrees can easily access those resources. Our biggest failure as people from West Nile has been our inability and capability to work as a team for a long time. I strongly believe if we can change our strategies, collaborate and network as a team rather than stuggle in Darwinian Theory of the Survival For The Fittest Species, we can change our "Underdevelopment, Apathy and Poverty" for many people in the region. If we continue to share our vision, re-shape that vision, refine that vision , over a period of time, we shall achive some of the things we have been talking about. Nothing is impossible as long you motivate yourself to pursue specific goals. Avudria On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 8:37 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send WestNileNet mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of WestNileNet digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: A must read. Message from the President West Nile > Foundation (Bernard Bonton Obaa) > 2. Re: A must read. Message from the President West Nile > Foundation (Bernard Bonton Obaa) > 3. Documentation (Caleb Alaka) > 4. Message from MASU Granduation party and Academic Exhibition > Desk. (Sunday Etrima) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:34:50 +0300 > From: Bernard Bonton Obaa <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] A must read. Message from the President > West Nile Foundation > To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Colleagues, > > These are great ideas that are potentially transformative. I thank the team > that has assembled these issues and presented them elegantly. The > activities > are indeed ambitious..which is great. I like the target for education,150 > PhDs in 10 years! A PhD program takes any where between 3 and 7 years and > is > quite resource intensive. To achieve this target, we need massive > enrollment > in the next 3-4 years. That brings in the issue of financing. How shall we > fund all the suggested interventions? Perhaps the less developed idea in > the > present document is sources of funding. Investments in say a school for the > foundation and agricultural projects will bring returns in the long run, > but > what about the start up costs? > > The activities are all essential for the development of the region. Given > their scale, we may need to prioritize, beginning with strengthening > activities that are already underway such as those in the education sector. > We could start by building a strong research, advocay and consultancy team > that would help us focus on activities that have the greatest benefit to > the > region. Such a team would also provide leadership in resource mobilization > through such activities as writing grant seeking proposals, lobbying > development partners (donors), etc. > > Once again, thank you for the great job so far. > > Best regards, > > Ben > > > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Caleb Alaka <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Dear Colleagues, kindly get time and read this message. Your > > contributions and discussions will change the way we think and do things. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://orion.kym.net/pipermail/westnilenet/attachments/20100117/487195db/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:42:00 +0300 > From: Bernard Bonton Obaa <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] A must read. Message from the President > West Nile Foundation > To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Colleagues, > > These are great ideas that are potentially transformative. I thank the team > that has assembled these issues and presented them elegantly. The > activities > are indeed ambitious..which is great. I like the target for education,150 > PhDs in 10 years! A PhD program takes any where between 3 and 7 years and > is > quite resource intensive. To achieve this target, we need massive > enrollment > in the next 3-4 years. That brings in the issue of financing. How shall we > fund all the suggested interventions? Perhaps the less developed idea in > the > present document is sources of funding. Investments in say a school for the > foundation and agricultural projects will bring returns in the long run, > but > what about the start up costs? > > The activities are all essential for the development of the region. Given > their scale, we may need to prioritize, beginning with strengthening > activities that are already underway such as those in the education sector. > We could start by building a strong research, advocay and consultancy team > that would help us focus on activities that have the greatest benefit to > the > region. Such a team would also provide leadership in resource mobilization > through such activities as writing grant seeking proposals, lobbying > development partners (donors), etc. > > Once again, thank you for the great job so far. > > Best regards, > > Ben > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Caleb Alaka <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Dear Colleagues, kindly get time and read this message. Your > > contributions and discussions will change the way we think and do things. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://orion.kym.net/pipermail/westnilenet/attachments/20100117/96cf7544/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:52:40 -0800 (PST) > From: Caleb Alaka <[email protected]> > Subject: [WestNileNet] Documentation > To: JohnAJackson <[email protected]> > Cc: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Following the explosive release of our vision as the leaders, we are bound > to see a lot of discussions and we might need documentation of ideas, Can > you assist in the same. We could also pick an aspect of the message from the > President and we discuss each at a time. so that when we appoint in house > consultants to develop our 5 years strategic Plan it will be a document > agreed by all the members at least by consensus. I saw the terms of > reference for the Administrator which you developed. In my view, they are > okay. We are going to post it for further discussions by members so that we > immediately advertise the same so that the person begins work immediately. > We just need a feed back from members as to whether the idea of an > administrator is good. > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://orion.kym.net/pipermail/westnilenet/attachments/20100117/e5fc01a6/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:37:33 -0800 (PST) > From: Sunday Etrima <[email protected]> > Subject: [WestNileNet] Message from MASU Granduation party and > Academic Exhibition Desk. > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part > -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: Granduation proposal.doc > Type: application/octet-stream > Size: 60928 bytes > Desc: not available > Url : > http://orion.kym.net/pipermail/westnilenet/attachments/20100117/b41a9714/Granduationproposal.obj > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > WestNileNet mailing list > [email protected] > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > > > End of WestNileNet Digest, Vol 17, Issue 35 > ******************************************* >
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