Let’s play a little reflection game.
Pick any statement that you can identify with, tell us who said it what it means to you! And which key quotable statement did we leave out?
- “A network needs a purpose”
- “Don’t write too much”
- “Entering the Digital City should be Simple”
- “I am a facilitator, not a teacher”
- “I don’t have the skill in me to deal with Bureaucracy”
- “I don’t yet feel it”
- “I need you to be a little bit critical with yourself”
- “I realise now that I have been boring my students. We should be vlogging”
- “I want to share with you a very expensive Learning experience”
- “If you start not good and fail. Nobody work with you next time”
- “If you want to succeed in Africa, you should be able to challenge bureaucracies”
- “In Networking, start with the idea of what you want to do, not the people”
- “It’s important for people to come together. We always learn something new whenever we come together”
- “Our vision is basically to contribute to SDGs and the networking will be going back and forth”
- “People here are very happy. They have got the fruits of networking”
- “Please don’t mind. It’s not personal but I like to intervene here and there”
- “Start and fail”
- “The most stupid thing I see on websites is ‘What we do’. We should instead have a button that asks the reader ‘What do you want us to do for you’”
- “The TV industry has changed in the past year alone than it changed in the previous 24 years”
- “The world has moved on. We are now vlogging”
- “The world needs creative, agile, flexible people, ready to work hard”
- “These network enabled devices, we call them phones, but are not really phones (for for how long do we really speak into them) have transformed our lives”
- “Today, the question we ask is “What do we need to change about business plans and strategies to fit into what we think we know now?”
- “Using ICTs should be about Learning, not teaching”
- “We already know the challenges. Let us now focus on the opportunity iin the use of the phone in school”
- “We face the challenge of skill mismatch. Many of the students who graduate do not have the skills that employers are looking”
- “We have a filter to contextualize whatever good is done in different countries to our different countries”
- “We have few scientist graduating, and those that graduate do not have soft skills like the ability to work independently, the ability to work under pressure or creativity skills”
- “We need to move from best Cases to Learning Cases”
- “When people to start to collaborate, a lot of resources start to come”
- “When we envisioned digitization. We made many mistakes. We just made digital copies of the digital world! That is not digitalization”
- “When you speak with other people, you only speak a little bit of what you really want to say”
The above statements were made by different people in the ITP followup workshop n Cambodia.