Dear Cliff,
Sorry for the silence, organising an event probably what we would call a meeting of minds event is not difficult, I have made a living from doing this but there has to be measurable motivation from the members of the community for such an event to the level that they are willing to put some time and money into it (I would not ask to be paid for this, I would give me technical skills and some limited time) for venue, water, food & any direct cost items. We could use what is called the round table process to reach a viable regional strategy as follows; 1. Round table workshop (Presentation of existing development initiatives, discussion on coordination & optimization of efforts etc.) 2. Strategy & implementation plans 3. Ownership of activities (who does what and who is responsible for what) 4. Funds & sustainability If this is feasible we can start the planning, these issues require serious commitment from members, I cannot therefore commit without the serious motivation and participation of significant players such as politicians, civil servants, business community, NGO’s, Diaspora and others (elders … etc) Richard From: WestNileNet [mailto:westnilenet-boun...@kym.net] On Behalf Of Mail Service Team Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 5:37 PM To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile Cc: westnilenet-boun...@kym.net Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Unsubscribe On Behalf of Beatrice Kamure Dear all, I suggest Beatrice and Okuti to spearhead the ground breaking ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION for Westinile THINK TANK Strategy in April,with a tendative date and requirements.Talking without Action makes Sam a DULL Boy.Let us stop knowing each other in Social media but get down to the physical for seeing is believing,including the Forum Administrator because we may be networking with Ghosts in this era. The ball and playing ground has been given, we only need a Referree ready with Teams and Coaches. Happy Easter. Cliff On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Nelly Badaru <nellybad...@gmail.com> wrote: How wonderful it would be to our region if all these writings were not from remote controls but translates to concrete actions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really look forward to that day. Be blessed On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 4:58 PM, JohnAJackson <javud...@gmail.com> wrote: LEADERSHIP & PROBLEM SOLVING * Leadership is all about problem solving. Good leaders rally people around solving a common problem * Back in 1970's, Arua airport was being upgraded to International standards at a time when Idi Amin was in power. This project was abandoned at the climax of Palestinian Israel conflict. All it left was valleys by soil erosion and Israelis left off with our beautiful top soil leaving behind barren land. * This would be a perfect project where Husein could go to M7 and ask for money to rebuild this airport in honor of his dad. Hopefully, M7 would give Husein money as a hand sake and good gesture. * Rebuilding this airport as the second largest and busiest airport in Uganda could generate perhaps 100 to 200 jobs or more. The macroeconomic impact of this project could spin off other jobs for instance warehousing, restaurants, hotels, etc. * Rebuilding Arua airport could open both passenger and cargo traffic to DR Congo and South Sudan. Instead of politicking this issue, our leaders should look at business opportunities we are not exploiting or taking seriously. We need to look at opportunity cost. * A decade ago, another MP who became a minister ran on this platform and promised that he would rebuild this airport. I do not want to give names. Many of you on this forum will remember the beating of those empty drums a decade ago. * Ladies and gentleman, let us face reality of problems facing this region. Some of the problems facing us require simple dialogue with stakeholders. Let's try to look at simple problems within our reach. Let us start talking about simple issues we can solve. Big issues that require government intervention let's involve our political leaders from this region to lobby the government to correct some of the problems. This is the very reason why we elected representatives. * Above all, let us have intellectual and respectful discussion over some of this problems. Shying away, quitting the forum is not a gateway to problem resolution. Let us figure some way to take matters we discuss in this forum to the community. * There are hundreds of highly qualified people on this forum from various professions. Don't be a silent listener. Contribute brilliant ideas on how we can address some of the challenges facing us as a community. * Thank you * JJ On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 4:08 AM, Mail Service Team <cliffedekiborich...@gmail.com> wrote: Dear John, Bravo, you have got it RIGHT. Let our bro Hussein join Authors Forum in writing books and making documentaries of our Late President Amin's Life series in Kampala for making money to support westnile problem sloution and Amins family form a credible AMIN FOUNDATION for which we can subscribe to as members.CAN this forum help us organise THINK TANK Innovations of both physical meetings and media networking. For my sister Kamure, opting out is never a solution,face the frying pans.Don't go away for we need you. Nice week end. Cliff On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 10:22 PM, JohnAJackson <javud...@gmail.com> wrote: Dear brothers and sisters, * While Idi Amin did great things at his time, I think time has come where we need to encourage junior Amin to write volumes and volumes of books on his dad's past life. This is best way to retain knowledge so that younger generations can read it later. Bombarding this forum with Idi Amin stuff has become unpalatable, boring and makes no more sense. Perhaps majority of us communicating in this forum were kids during Amin's regime and never saw the benefit of his presidency in West Nile region. Correct me if I am wrong. * We have serious social and economic development challenges facing our region we need to come together as a team and address some of the problems. Doing nothing only continues to hurt a generation of youth some of whom are our nephews, nieces, cousins, sisters, brothers or even our own children. * For instance look at youth unemployment in this region. There is nearly 80-90 % school drop out rate at all levels. Where do some of these youth end up? Just roaming in towns or villages doing nothing but drinking alcohol, smoking marijuana, Mirraa, etc. * Do we really need government intervention to stop or reduce some of these obvious problems in our community? Some of the issues need engaging our communities in finding productive solutions right from the grassroots level. Educating people and empowering them through mass media could go a long way in solving some these problems or saving our community from self destruction. * It may sound like a joking matter to say "why do I have to care about people who do not care about themselves"? In any place where there are thousands of idle people, crime rates go up. Issues like starvation will continue to haunt this region as older hard working generation die off. Mental health issues is on rise. Should we wait for the government to come and rescue us? * I think it time we all come together and harness our human potential from these forum or region and take the wild bull in our own hands before it gets out of control. * Are we going to raise a generation of youth whose job is only SECURITY GUARDS in Kampala & CASAVU in the sugar estates? Brothers and sisters, lets think twice! JJ On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 6:24 AM, Mail Service Team <cliffedekiborich...@gmail.com> wrote: Dear Westnilers, Greetings to you all. I do hope this social network forum is meant for sharing tangible issues of paramount interest of our region than merely politicking propaganda with NO substantive benefits. Majority of our regional issues require mutual solutions at both personal and community level with minimal political interventions. Does our young youth spending 90% of their time smoking the Sudanese kind of intoxicated Smoke in towns and Chewing mairungi and people relying on mairungi farming, for subsistence, poor education performance in both primary and secondary need political solution? What have we done at both individual and forum level than always lamentations on other peoples" affairs. Thank you Admin. Cliff Tel:+256782308172 <tel:%2B256782308172> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Beatrice A <badongak...@nilebasin.org> wrote: Dear Admin, I concur with Jimmy, kindly unsubscribe me from this mailing list. Regards. 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