Dear Mr Oguzu, Thank you for the questions you have raised. These questions have been raised before but they have not been adequately addressed. Untill we address them they will continue to haunt us? To begin with, i joined this forum when it had long existed, as such, i do not know much about how it was started and what its vision was meant to be. However, i believe some one must have conceived the idea of coming up with this forum, shared it with a group of like minded people, taken a decision and acted upon the decision taken in order to have this forum as it exist today. The conception of the idea, the emergence of leadership and the building of a core team must have made it possible for this forum to come into existence. >From those initial stages the forum has now grown in terms of ideas, people >involved, and scope which necessitates giving it an identity/name on which >there is almost a concensus now, it also require us to establish >organisational structures or positions of leadership and getting people to >take up these positions to perform specific task explicitly stated or >implicitly understood on our behalf. To achieve these we can either rely on >those who came up with the idea of having the forum or some one volunteers to >lead the process of organising ourselves into an entity or we sporadically >create a task force to help us turn the forum into a formal organisation. >Either way some one has to cause things to happen. The unfortunate part is >that the initiators seem to have receded to the background and are not helping >us enough to know whether we are moving in the right direction or not. You >know the problem with voluntary service. You can not easily enforce accountability and compliance. Depending on where you belong i would like each person to give me an answer the following questions: 1. As a member of the group who formed the forum what is your view on the way forward? 2. As a person who joined afterwards what do you think we should do? Thanks Sam Andema
--- On Tue, 19/5/09, oguzu lee <oguzu...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: oguzu lee <oguzu...@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Re: Broadcast of our views on radios To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <westnilenet@kym.net> Date: Tuesday, 19 May, 2009, 12:35 PM Fr. Rufino and Andema, Sometime back i stated that an ounce of action is better that a tonne of words. Having got this reminder, time is now ripe for us to move forward with formalization of the forum. The idea came long ago but all of us were quiet. At this point we should be able to outline what needs to be done, when, and by who. We also need a background to this forum--what its vision, goals, and objectives are. That way we could be action oriented too. But one thing we've got to appreciate is the fact that some of the views expressed here target change of attitude and radios offer unique platform for us to reach a number of people. Given these divergent views, what is the way forward? Perhaps we could here from more people. Cheers Denis Lee Oguzu & nbsp; --- On Mon, 5/18/09, samuel andema <andema...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: From: samuel andema <andema...@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Re: Broadcast of our views on radios To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <westnilenet@kym.net> Date: Monday, May 18, 2009, 11:04 AM Dear all i tend to concur with father Rofino that sending our ideas to be aired in the radio could be too prmature at the moment. As he has put it what next after the ideas are aired on the radio. We need to think beyond publicity and information and be action and result oriented. Let's think of practical ways of ensuring that the ideas get pushed into decision making and policy formulation processes. The best way would be to first organise ourselves into a legal entity like a pressure group with goals, organisational strucures and leadership then ask the leadership or a task force to present our concerns and proposals to the relevant authorities so that there can be follow up made. Then and only then can the team proceed to organsie a press release or press conference to break the news of what is happening. In that way we shall be taken more seriously by the relevant authorities. Thanks. Sam Andema --- On Mon, 18/5/09, Ruffino Ezama <ruffino.ez...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Ruffino Ezama <ruffino.ez...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Re: Broadcast of our views on radios To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <westnilenet@kym.net> Date: Monday, 18 May, 2009, 9:09 PM Dear all Before I give my vote for the radio broadcast lets ask ourselves are we not action oriented? Our ideas may go to the radio, and what next? With so many FM stations where people just talk and talk and talk I feel that we need to arrive at concrete proposals and be given to the right authorities. Somebody had asked whether we could organise ourselves as a legal body and make our views carry weight. Otherwise it is too early for the radio before we shape our identity better. There are some politicians who like hijacking ideas and turn them into their favors. -- Ruffino Ezama,mccj Comboni Missionaries Ombaci Mission P.O Box 30 Arua Uganda (+256 77 2 62 42 40) (+256 70 2 62 42 40) ruffino.ez...@gmail.com ezama.ruff...@gmail.com ruff...@cmpmail.com www.tualu.org _______________________________________________ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net 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. _______________________________________________ -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net 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. _______________________________________________ -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net 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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