Reinvent Democracy - User contributions [en]

Abdulkarim Taraja

2017-04-18T10:32:22Z

Abdulkarim Taraja:

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'''Abdulkarim Taraja is a young man full of energy for transformation. The Communication, Media and PR Specialist graduate and passionate to seeing change. Born and brought up in Mt. Elgon, Western Kenya had a more serious and turbulent life that affected his education for some time but who refused to give up.

He is a core Participant of the [[Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era]] (African Initiative) and [[Future Worlds Center]] Agent with substantive knowledge of the [[Structured Democratic Dialogue]] process (SDDP).
'''Abdulkarim''''s [[Peer Empowerment and Support Mentors]] is '''[[Andreas Kamilaris]]'''.
He is an Ambassador of the Social Transformation Youth Program in Kenya that was established by the Inter-religious Council of Kenya (IRCK) in 2015 that is meant to socially transform Kenya.

Taraja is an alumni of the 3rd African Model United Nations (AfroMUN) where youth were taken through International Diplomacy and Relations at the United Nations Offices in Nairobi. He is a member of Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa (YALDA) and its founder of the YALDA Kabianga Branch.

He is an independent writer, blogger and journalist reporting on different issues ranging from politics, democracy, governance and environment. He is currently in plans to work with Global Education Futures- a group of Scientists and Education fanatics to discuss the future of education in the era expansive technology and hoping to be in Cyprus at the end of August.

He is a founding member of Elgon Young Professionals (EYP) in his Community that is helping in improving girl child education and founding member of the Elgon Prayer Movement (EPM) that is being officially launched on 26th Aug, 2016. EPM is a movement that uses religion to promote unity, peace and open governance in a society that has since faced challenges in Unity.

'''Abdulkarim''''s [[Peer Empowerment and Support Mentors]] is '''[[Andreas Kamilaris]]'''.

{{#ev:youtube|WBAVp1Rzr_Q|300|center|Abdulkarim Taraja}}

===Shadow Participants===
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# [[Diphus Kiprop Ngeny]]
# [[Rahab Wairimu]]
# [[Raphael Chesori]]
# [[Alfred Chuchu]]
# [[Rolex Mwamba]]
# [[Isabella Omariba]]
# [[John Alonge]]
# [[Diana Nyangi]]
# [[Samuel Atula]]
# [[Josephine Kulea]]

===Key Relevant Publications===

[[File: Abdulkarim_20160806.png|left|700px]]

[[File: https://youtu.be/EvX0wg5Sz2U ]]

[[Category:SDDP AF Core Participant]]

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2017-03-03T09:33:05Z

Abdulkarim Taraja: Youth for Common action for social justice

Youth for Common action for social justice

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2017-03-03T09:31:29Z

Abdulkarim Taraja: Abdulkarim Taraja uploaded a new version of File:Screenshot 2017-03-03-10-38-50.jpeg

Abdulkarim Taraja

2017-03-03T09:28:48Z

Abdulkarim Taraja:

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2017-03-03T09:24:12Z

Abdulkarim Taraja:

Abdulkarim Taraja

2017-03-03T07:30:04Z

Abdulkarim Taraja:

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'''Abdulkarim Taraja is a young man full of energy for transformation. The Communication, Media and PR Specialist and yet to graduate student is of more passionate to seeing change. Born and brought up in Mt. Elgon, Western Kenya had a more serious and turbulent life that affected his education for some time but who refused to give up.

He is a core Participant of the [[Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era]] (African Initiative) and [[Future Worlds Center]] Agent with substantive knowledge of the [[Structured Democratic Dialogue]] process (SDDP).
'''Abdulkarim''''s [[Peer Empowerment and Support Mentors]] is '''[[Andreas Kamilaris]]'''.
He is an Ambassador of the Social Transformation Youth Program in Kenya that was established by the Inter-religious Council of Kenya (IRCK) in 2015 that is meant to socially transform Kenya.

Taraja is an alumni of the 3rd African Model United Nations (AfroMUN) where youth were taken through International Diplomacy and Relations at the United Nations Offices in Nairobi. He is a member of Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa (YALDA) and its founder of the YALDA Kabianga Branch.

He is an independent writer, blogger and journalist reporting on different issues ranging from politics, democracy, governance and environment. He is currently in plans to work with Global Education Futures- a group of Scientists and Education fanatics to discuss the future of education in the era expansive technology and hoping to be in Cyprus at the end of August.

He is a founding member of Elgon Young Professionals (EYP) in his Community that is helping in improving girl child education and founding member of the Elgon Prayer Movement (EPM) that is being officially launched on 26th Aug, 2016. EPM is a movement that uses religion to promote unity, peace and open governance in a society that has since faced challenges in Unity.

'''Abdulkarim''''s [[Peer Empowerment and Support Mentors]] is '''[[Andreas Kamilaris]]'''.

{{#ev:youtube|WBAVp1Rzr_Q|300|center|Abdulkarim Taraja}}

===Shadow Participants===
[[File:RD_ShadowParticipantAF.png|100px|caption]]

# [[Diphus Kiprop Ngeny]]
# [[Rahab Wairimu]]
# [[Raphael Chesori]]
# [[Alfred Chuchu]]
# [[Rolex Mwamba]]
# [[Isabella Omariba]]
# [[John Alonge]]
# [[Diana Nyangi]]
# [[Samuel Atula]]
# [[Josephine Kulea]]

===Key Relevant Publications===

[[File: Abdulkarim_20160806.png|left|700px]]

[[Category:SDDP AF Core Participant]]

Raphael Chesori

2017-03-03T07:14:30Z

Abdulkarim Taraja:

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'''Raphael Chesori''' is a [[Shadow Participant]] of [[Abdulkarim Taraja]]. Abdulkarim is one of the [[Core Participant|Core participants]] of the [[African Initiative]]. Raphael is based in Kenya.

Raphael Chebosion Chesori,

Raphael Chebosion Chesori was born in 1985 and raised up in Kresoi Village in Emia, Chepyuk Ward, Mt. Elgon Sub-County of Bungoma County. He attended his lower primary education at Banan Tega S.A, Chepkurkur S.A and Bukonoi D.E.B. His upper primary education was in Chepkurkur S.A, emerging the best candidate in the school in 1998 KCPE Exams. He pursued his secondary education at Cheptais High (1999 - 2002) emerging tops before joining University of Nairobi in 2004. He holds a B.Sc in Industrial Chemistry and M.Sc. (Eng.) Nuclear Science from the University of Nairobi.

He is alumni of World Nuclear University Summer Institute (2011), Oxford UK and the ICTP�IAEA School of Nuclear Knowledge Management (2010), Trieste Italy and has participated widely in both local and international scientific forums and workshops. These includes IAEA�AFRA Projects held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia(2011), the European Nuclear Young Generation Forum(ENYGF-2015, Paris) and several others organized by National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI), Kenya Nuclear Electricity Board (KNEB), Kenya Radiation Protection Board (RPB) and East Africa Association for Radiation Protection (EAARP).

Raphael is a Co-founder of Kenyan Young Generation in Nuclear – a network of young professionals in nuclear and allied fields where he currently serves as Vice President. He sits as a Member-At-Large in the Board of Directors of International Youth Nuclear Congress; a global professional body for young generation networks in the nuclear industry. He is also the founding Chairman of University of Nairobi Industrial Chemistry Students Association (2007). He served Mt. Elgon University Students Association (MTEUSA) as Secretary General (2005 – 2007).

Raphael exhibits a diverse mix of leadership and work experiences spanning nearly a decade in operational research and training in areas of applied science and community development. He is currently a researcher at University of Nairobi with research interests on Energy Technologies; Radiochemistry; Nuclear Knowledge Management and applications of nuclear technology in medicine. He is also part time lecture at JKUAT, Main Campus. A part from academics, Raphael has first-hand experience in project planning and management having worked on various community projects with local and international NGOs. He sits in the board of directors of a number of grassroots organizations where he serves as a technical adviser.

Phone: +254 723 964 565, Email: rachemoi@gmail.com

Greatest Desire: To see a world where everyone is at his/her best in serving their families, communities, the nation and the world at large.

Worst fears: corruption getting to our future generation. Corruption kills; it denies the young people, men and women an opportunity to realize their full potentials hence remains the main driver of poverty in the developing worlds.

[[Category: African Initiative Shadow Participant]]
[[Category: SDDP AF Shadow Participant]]

Abdulkarim Taraja

2017-02-24T06:04:24Z

Abdulkarim Taraja:

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'''Abdulkarim Taraja is a young man full of energy for transformation. The Communication, Media and PR Specialist graduate is of more passionate to seeing change. Born and brought up in Mt. Elgon, Western Kenya had a more serious and turbulent life that affected his education for some time but who refused to give up.

He is a core Participant of the [[Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era]] (African Initiative) and [[Future Worlds Center]] Agent with substantive knowledge of the [[Structured Democratic Dialogue]] process (SDDP).
'''Abdulkarim''''s [[Peer Empowerment and Support Mentors]] is '''[[Andreas Kamilaris]]'''.
He is an Ambassador of the Social Transformation Youth Program in Kenya that was established by the Inter-religious Council of Kenya (IRCK) in 2015 that is meant to socially transform Kenya.

Taraja is an alumni of the 3rd African Model United Nations (AfroMUN) where youth were taken through International Diplomacy and Relations at the United Nations Offices in Nairobi. He is a member of Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa (YALDA) and its founder of the YALDA Kabianga Branch.

He is an independent writer, blogger and journalist reporting on different issues ranging from politics, democracy, governance and environment. He is currently in plans to work with Global Education Futures- a group of Scientists and Education fanatics to discuss the future of education in the era expansive technology and hoping to be in Cyprus at the end of August.

He is a founding member of Elgon Young Professionals (EYP) in his Community that is helping in improving girl child education and founding member of the Elgon Prayer Movement (EPM) that is being officially launched on 26th Aug, 2016. EPM is a movement that uses religion to promote unity, peace and open governance in a society that has since faced challenges in Unity.

'''Abdulkarim''''s [[Peer Empowerment and Support Mentors]] is '''[[Andreas Kamilaris]]'''.

{{#ev:youtube|WBAVp1Rzr_Q|300|center|Abdulkarim Taraja}}

===Shadow Participants===
[[File:RD_ShadowParticipantAF.png|100px|caption]]

# [[Diphus Kiprop Ngeny]]
# [[Rahab Wairimu]]
# [[Raphael Chesori]]
# [[Alfred Chuchu]]
# [[Rolex Mwamba]]
# [[Isabella Omariba]]
# [[John Alonge]]
# [[Diana Nyangi]]
# [[Samuel Atula]]
# [[Josephine Kulea]]

===Key Relevant Publications===

[[File: Abdulkarim_20160806.png|left|700px]]

[[Category:SDDP AF Core Participant]]

Abdulkarim Taraja

2017-02-19T19:25:48Z

Abdulkarim Taraja:

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'''Abdulkarim Taraja is a young man full of energy for transformation. The Communication, Media and PR Specialist and yet to graduate student is of more passionate to seeing change. Born and brought up in Mt. Elgon, Western Kenya had a more serious and turbulent life that affected his education for some time but who refused to give up.

He is a core Participant of the [[Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era]] (African Initiative) and [[Future Worlds Center]] Agent with substantive knowledge of the [[Structured Democratic Dialogue]] process (SDDP).
'''Abdulkarim''''s [[Peer Empowerment and Support Mentors]] is '''[[Andreas Kamilaris]]'''.
He is an Ambassador of the Social Transformation Youth Program in Kenya that was established by the Inter-religious Council of Kenya (IRCK) in 2015 that is meant to socially transform Kenya.

Taraja is an alumni of the 3rd African Model United Nations (AfroMUN) where youth were taken through International Diplomacy and Relations at the United Nations Offices in Nairobi. He is a member of Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa (YALDA) and its founder of the YALDA Kabianga Branch.

He is an independent writer, blogger and journalist reporting on different issues ranging from politics, democracy, governance and environment. He is currently in plans to work with Global Education Futures- a group of Scientists and Education fanatics to discuss the future of education in the era expansive technology and hoping to be in Cyprus at the end of August.

He is a founding member of Elgon Young Professionals (EYP) in his Community that is helping in improving girl child education and founding member of the Elgon Prayer Movement (EPM) that is being officially launched on 26th Aug, 2016. EPM is a movement that uses religion to promote unity, peace and open governance in a society that has since faced challenges in Unity.

'''Abdulkarim''''s [[Peer Empowerment and Support Mentors]] is '''[[Andreas Kamilaris]]'''.

{{#ev:youtube|WBAVp1Rzr_Q|300|center|Abdulkarim Taraja}}

===Shadow Participants===
[[File:RD_ShadowParticipantAF.png|100px|caption]]

# [[Diphus Kiprop Ngeny]]
# [[Rahab Wairimu]]
# [[Raphael Chesori]]
# [[Alfred Chuchu]]
# [[Rolex Mwamba]]
# [[Isabella Omariba]]
# [[John Alonge]]
# [[Diana Nyangi]]
# [[Samuel Atula]]
# [[Josephine Kulea]]

===Key Relevant Publications===

[[File: Abdulkarim_20160806.png|left|700px]]

[[Category:SDDP AF Core Participant]]

Abdulkarim Taraja

2016-08-19T09:23:46Z

Abdulkarim Taraja:

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'''Abdulkarim Taraja is a charming and amazing young man full of energy for transformation. The Communication, Media and PR Specialist and yet to graduate student is of more passionate to seeing change. Born and brought up in Mt. Elgon, Western Kenya had a more serious and turbulent life that affected his education for some time but who refused to give up.

He is a Co-Participant of the Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era (African Initiative) and Future Worlds Centers Agent with substantive knowledge of the Structured Democratic Dialogue Process (SDDP). He is an Ambassador of the Social Transformation Youth Program in Kenya that was established by the Inter-religious Council of Kenya (IRCK) in 2015 that is meant to socially transform Kenya.

Taraja is an alumni of the 3rd African Model United Nations (AfroMUN) where youth were taken through International Diplomacy and Relations at the United Nations Offices in Nairobi. He is a member of Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa (YALDA) and its founder of the YALDA Kabianga Branch.

He is an independent writer, blogger and journalist reporting on different issues ranging from politics, democracy, governance and environment. He is currently in plans to work with Global Education Futures- a group of Scientists and Education fanatics to discuss the future of education in the era expansive technology and hoping to be in Cyprus at the end of August.

He is a founding member of Elgon Young Professionals (EYP) in his Community that is helping in improving girl child education and founding member of the Elgon Prayer Movement (EPM) that is being officially launched on 26th Aug, 2016. EPM is a movement that uses religion to promote unity, peace and open governance in a society that has since faced challenges in Unity.

'''Abdulkarim''''s [[Peer Empowerment and Support Mentors]] is '''[[Andreas Kamilaris]]'''.

{{#ev:youtube|WBAVp1Rzr_Q|300|center|Abdulkarim Taraja}}

===Shadow Participants===
[[File:RD_ShadowParticipantAF.png|100px|caption]]

# [[Diphus Kiprop Ngeny]]
# [[Rahab Wairimu]]
# [[Raphael Chesori]]
# [[Alfred Chuchu]]
# [[Rolex Mwamba]]
# [[Isabella Omariba]]
# [[John Alonge]]
# [[Diana Nyangi]]
# [[Samuel Atula]]
# [[Josephine Kulea]]

===Key Relevant Publications===

[[File: Abdulkarim_20160806.png|left|700px]]

[[Category:SDDP AF Core Participant]]

File:Albulkarim Taraja.JPG

2016-06-27T09:20:19Z

Abdulkarim Taraja: Abdulkarim Taraja uploaded a new version of File:Albulkarim Taraja.JPG

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2016-06-27T09:13:57Z

Abdulkarim Taraja: By Abdulkarim Taraja With the menace and political gimmicks surrounding Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) continue biting our minds, the dialogue as presumed by many other Bi-partisan groups should be seriously considered. Howeve...

By Abdulkarim Taraja

With the menace and political gimmicks surrounding Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) continue biting our minds, the dialogue as presumed by many other Bi-partisan groups should be seriously considered.

However, the dialogue should be in the confines of the law and each sides being in the compromising positions if at all they want to liberate this country from falling apart as witnessed 8 years ago.

As I witness day to day battles and hard lines by the Jubilee Coalition and the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) while setting unbearable conditions, better solutions to the saga is just but a distant fantasy if we continue trading this path.

As I scribe this, I am a beneficiary of the Structured Democratic Dialogue Process (SDDP) that we underwent recently in Nairobi during the Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era Co-Laboratory event where the process leads the stakeholders to amicable solutions without these standoffs.

The methodology supports the generation of truly democratic and structured dialogue amongst teams of stakeholders. It is particularly effective in the resolution of complex conflicts, interests, and values, and in achieving consensus based on a common understanding and strategy. It is based on 7 complex systems and cybernetics axioms, and has been grounded both scientifically and empirically in hundreds of settings on a global scale for the past 30 years.

SDDP was designed especially so that it can assist non-homogenous groups in tackling complex problems within a reasonable and restricted time frame. It facilitates the annexation of contributions by individuals with vastly different views, contexts, and aspirations, through a process that is structured, conclusive, and the product of cooperation.

A team of participants, who are knowledgeable of a particular situation, generate together a common outline of ideas based on a common understanding of the current problematic situation and a future ideal one. SDDP promotes the focused communication between participants and supports their ownership of the solution as well as their actions towards implementing it.

As we meddle with the issue of IEBC, I would like to support the parliamentary system of dialogue that will use the SDDP in its dialogue. In this process, the firm standoff we are witnessing here will be neutralized even without the stakeholders knowing it. SDDP is self-documenting software as the dialogue process continues.

The process of a typical SDDP session works in phases that those who will conduct the process ought to:
First, the breadth of the dialogue is constrained and sharpened with the help of a Triggering Question. This is formulated by a core group of people, who are the Knowledge Management Team (KMT) and is composed by the owners of the complex problem and SDDP experts. This question can be emailed to all participants, who are requested to respond with at least three contributions before the meeting either through email or wikis.

Second, all contributions and responses to the triggering question are recorded in the Cogniscope IITM software. They must be short and concise: one idea in one sentence! The authors may clarify their ideas in a few additional sentences.

Third, the ideas are clustered into categories based on similarities and common attributes. Forth, all participants get five votes and are asked to choose ideas that are most important to them. Only ideas that receive votes go to the next and most important phase.

Fifth, in this phase, participants are asked to explore influences of one idea on another. They are asked to decide whether solving one problem will make solving another problem easier. If the answer is a great majority an influence is established on the map of ideas. The way to read that influence is that items at the bottom are root causes (if what is being discussed are obstacles), or most influential factors (if what is being discussed are descriptors of an ideal situation or actions to take). Those root factors must be given priority.

Sixth, using the root factors, stakeholders develop an efficient strategy and come up with a road map to implement it.

The process is gaining significant use in Europe, America and Asia and South Africa is the only African nation that adopting in solving complex issues such the IEBC saga. If the Kenya elites want to solve and lead democratic outcomes in the issues affecting the governance, there is no choice but to use this process.

End

The writer is a youth and co-participant of the Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era, African Initiative and Global member and a graduate of the SDDP.

Abdulkarim Taraja

2016-05-14T11:50:24Z

Abdulkarim Taraja:

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'''Abdulkarim Taraja'''

Abdulkarim Taraja, was born in January 26, 1992 in Mt. Elgon western Kenya. He is yet to graduate at the University of Kabianga where he pursued Bachelor of Science in Communication and Public Relations with extra knowledge in media both broadcast and print.Soon after campus, he got a chance to work with the County Government of Bungoma in Western Kenya as head of Communications for the Deputy Governor.

Abdulkarim has a passion to working with vulnerable groups such as Children in remote areas, Women and people with disability who do not access the information necessary in their lives. He is also a believer of change in systems to align with the changes in the 21st century.

He is also a Social Transformation Program Ambassador in Keya courtesy of the Interreligious Council of Kenya (IRCK) and Youth Interfaith Network in Kenya both bringing together youth and religion to address issues of Values in Governance.

Passion in Environmental issues such conservation also is his hobby.

{{#ev:youtube|WBAVp1Rzr_Q|300|center|Abdulkarim Taraja}}

'''Shadow Participants'''
[[File:RD_ShadowParticipantAF.png|100px|caption]]

# [[Diphus Kiprop Ngeny]]
# [[Rahab Wairimu]]
# [[Raphael Chesori]]
# [[Alfred Chuchu]]
# [[Rolex Mwamba]]
# [[Isabella Omariba]]
# [[John Alonge]]
# [[Diana Nyangi]]
# [[Samuel Atula]]
# [[Josephine Kulea]]

[[Category:SDDP AF Core Participant]]