Aggrey, this is a well thought out idea, we could set out the agenda we believe is sensitive and brainstorm the same and appoint some one to appear on our behalf on the talk show. Lets not lament on expenses, Aggrey people say that if you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Indeed it is more expensive. I am sure when we set up a secretariat and we have a coordinator or an administrator and we have our own resources, we can always budget for such expenses. We are over 400 on this link. if every body believes that self help begins with putting aside something in the coffers of the association, then the sky will be the limit. Lets resolve that Atibuni Kefa does for us this research and we begin a monthly radio program in Arua. The result will be phenomenal
--- On Tue, 11/30/10, aggrey adrale <[email protected]> wrote: From: aggrey adrale <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] The Way Forward To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 9:03 AM Dear Steve, Vasco and all WN Forum Members, Thanks for your contributions to the way forward. Unfortunately I don't have the contacts for the Media houses in West Nile. Somehow we can identify at least 2-3 most listened to radio stations for the purpose of comparisons of their costs of hosting programmes for a reasonable duration of about 90 minutes and the costs of advertising the programmes. I propose for the start we could have 1 programme per month, which should be reasonably advertised to enhance participation of the WN Community and stakeholders interested in following up development issues in the region. I am going ahead to propose Mr. Atibuni Kefa to carryout research into the costs of hosting programmes or if the media houses already have pre-financed slots so much the better for us. For example Voice of Life has a programme "Leaders talk to them", can we exploit this slot occassionally if they can avail it to us? Kefa works as the Development Communications Officer in NARO Abi Zonal Agricultural Research and Development Institute in Arua. He occasionally writes well researched, development centred articles in The Monitor newspaper. Perhaps our debates could offer insights for his next articles and at the same time his writings could be an avenue for us to reach out to the entire West Nile community. I briefed Kafa on this position and hoe sounded interested. Kefa's address is already in our network and it would be good for the leadership of West Nile Forum to formerly write to engage him. -- On Thu, 11/11/10, Stephen Ogua Adraka <[email protected]> wrote: From: Stephen Ogua Adraka <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] The Way Forward To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, 11 November, 2010, 11:12 Dear Vasco and Aggrey, I support the idea of disseminating and sharing our discussions on the forum with the people on the ground, and also getting their views to share with us on the forum. Many ideas come up, they are accessed for some time in the archive and then we get caught up in the trap of our oral culture. Who can still remember with nostalgia all the educative folk stories and riddles we used to have in the primary school? The art of Writing developed in the history of communication to aid the weak human memory and to let hands free for action. If we aim at galvanizing our people on the road to constructive mentality, I believe talk shows with in-coming calls would help a lot. I am sure many people, including some professionals out there do not have access to the Internet. They could be involved in developmental efforts in West Nile Region through talk shows. The traditional transmission model of communication has given way to convergence approach in which case the parties engaged are actively in the production of meaning and the consumption of media text produced. I have noted with sympathy that in our discussions, there have been lamentations about expenses charged by media institutions on airtime. If members can organize family day out, anniversaries of wedding, etc., why is it not possible to contribute for airtime expenditure that will benefit many people in West Nile.The executive or even a member could find out how much the stations in the West Nile will need for talk shows! Fellow citizens of West Nile, let us build the culture of sacrifice and investment for the common good. My desire is to see so many brilliant ideas in our discussions reflected in action. Wishing you all the best. Steve Ogua On 11 November 2010 08:32, aggrey adrale <[email protected]> wrote: Dear Vasco, Thanks for that brilliant suggestion to share the proceedings of our discussions and encourage participation of the West Nile development stakeholders. Had it not been for the associated expenses we would have a "capital gang" or "ekimeeza" model of live discussion with a call-in participation of the masses. Perhaps this option could be studied further together with other suggestions members will contribute. Thank you. Aggrey Adrale --- On Mon, 8/11/10, Vasco Oguzua <[email protected]> wrote: From: Vasco Oguzua <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] The Way Forward To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, 8 November, 2010, 20:06 Dear Brothers and Sisters, I had a technical problem where an incomplete article was posted inadvertently last week Thursday, which I am sure most of you were wondering what I was trying to say about the way Forward as the moderator had requested. Here is what I intended to say. The unfortunate and tragic Bus accidents that robbed us of our loved ones slowed the momentum we had gained is discussing issues affecting the development of our region. It was also a good time to reflect on our lives and the difficulties we face in our everyday life and to ask ourselves what we can do, and how can we improve the quality of life in our region. A lot of suggestions and ideas have been put forward on the forum, a summary of which I believe John posted on this forum. Although a few of us can access our discussions on the net and have the ability to comment, argue or give their views about whatever issue we are discussing on this net, the vast majority of our people in West Nile do not have this opportunity. While the issues we discuss here in this forum are for the interest of the population of West Nile, majority of who are in the rural areas with very limited access to the Internet, I think the single bottleneck we have is how we can convey our discussions to the majority of the rural or urban people in West Nile. Also how those people can convey they views and suggestions to us so that we have a two way communication. The single most important issue at this point is to find a medium of communication between the forum participants and the population in West Nile. The two way communication between us and the people will make easy for us to exchange our views and establish a common ground so that we are all looking at the same direction with the rest of the population in West Nile. Without a serious input from the people in the rural areas in West Nile we can not talk about including the local people in the decision making process of their lives. What I think we need is to get volunteers from among ourselves (especially our journalists) to device a suitable simple way of how we can disseminate and share our discussions on the forum with the people on the ground, and also get their views to share with us on the forum. The wonderful idea of Science Cafe is one of the best tools to inform and empower the rural community and we have to find how this can be implemented in the rural area. Most of the issues from the reports given about the science cafes that have so far been conducted seems to indicated that our rural population would gain more from these cafes and we as members of the forum shall have contributed to the education and empowerment of our people. The formation of Communication Committee to me would be the first priority in my view the Foundation need to address so that we have a link to and from the Foundation with the citizens who are the main concern of the Foundation. The issue and ideas we have discussed on this forum can not be in the interest of the population in West Nile if they are not informed and are not asked to give their views, comments, suggestions to us. We have to establish a feed back mechanism in our communication with the population in West Nile. This in my view is the first step we should seriously look into. Over to you brothers and sisters. 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