Event :	MOI UNIVERSITY 3RD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Date :	31st July 2007 - 4th August 2007
Venue :	Margaret Thatcher Library at Main Campus
General Theme :	"KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT THROUGH RESEARCH AND INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT"

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The Moi University 3^rd Annual International Conference was held at Moi university, Main Campus between Tuesday 31^st July 2007 and Friday 3^rd August 2007. The Conference was officially opened by the Minister for Education Hon. Prof. George Saitoti who was represented in the Conference by Prof. George Godia (Education Secretary in the ministry of Education) on Tuesday 31^st July 2007 and was officially closed by the Minister of Agriculture Hon. Kipruto arap Kirwa who was represented by Dr. Wilson A. Songa (Agriculture Secretary) on Friday 3^rd August 2007. More info on the Conference proceedings coming soon...

The General Theme of the Conference was: "Knowledge Management Through Research and Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Socio-economic Development".

The Participating schools included: School of Agriculture and Biotechnology, School of Law, School of Information Sciences, School of Engineering and a Cross Cutting Theme which covered multi-disciplinary aspects of the conference.

Over 300 papers were presented at the conference. Partcipanting scholars who presented papers during the conference were from Kenya, East Africa and other parts of the World.

Speeches

• Message from the Chancellor
• Message from the Chairman of Council
• Message from the Vice chancellor
• Message from the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Extension)

ORGANISATION

The Conference consisted of five Symposia organized by four Schools and one cross-cutting themes sysmposium as follows:-

1. THE SCHOOL OF LAW

Theme: The Role of Law in the Realization of Sustainable Socio-Economic Development.

Sub-Themes:

• The place of Law in Technology advancement.
• Law in Multi-disciplinary Scholarship, Governance and Development.
• Law and Social change in Africa.
• Inter-relationship between Law and Society in Globalized Market.
• Internationalization of Justice: The Influence of International Law in Domestic Courts in Africa.

Contact Person:
Prof. F. X. Njenga
email: fxnjenga2001@yahoo.co.uk

2. THE SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Theme: Perfecting Innovative Technologies and Research in Agriculture: Towards a Healthy Nation.

Sub-Themes:

• Appropriate technologies in Seed, Crop & Horticulture Production and Marketing for Sustainable Community Development.
• Soil Fertility Management for Improved National Food Security.
• Innovative Family and Consumer Research for Enhanced Entrepreneurship and Community Health.
• Biotechnology Approaches Towards Enhancement of Food Security.
• Improved Livestock Productivity Through Appropriate Technologies and Research.

Contact Person:
Dr. M. E. Omunyin
email: meomunyin@yahoo.com

3. THE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Theme: Engineering and Development

Sub-Themes:

• Engineering Innovative Solutions to Community Problems
• Innovation in Technologies for Enhanced Quality of Life

Contact Person:
Dr. E. N. Oyondi
email: oyondi@mu.ac.ke

4. SCHOOL OF INFORMATION SCIENCES

Theme: Knowledge Management and the Attainment of MDGS; Challenges and Opportunities.

Sub-Themes:

• Indigenous Knowledge - Capturing, Preserving and Disseminating Indigenous Knowledge.
• E-governance and Public Service Delivery
• Disaster Management; Planning, Prevention and Recovery.
• Managing Ethnic Diversity
• Media and Development; Using Graphics for Communication
• Info-entrepreneurship
• Global Partnerships
• Adaptation of ICT for Health, Democracy and National Development
• Bridging the Digital Divide in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities

Contact Person:
Dr. R. Wanja Thairu
email: thairus@africaonline.co.ke
OR
email: hodit@mu.ac.ke

5. CROSS-CUTTING THEMES

The symposium covers multi-disciplinary aspects of the conference. It covers mainly three thematic areas: gender research and equity development, integrated strategies for urban environmental management, socio-health issues related to HIV/AIDS diseases and other perspectives. Abstracts are invited from any of the three themes as follows:

Theme: Sustainable Socio-economic Development in Gender Equity; Intergrated Urban Management; and Socio-health issues.

Sub-Themes:

Group One

• Promoting Gender Equity for Sustainable Socio-Economic Development
• Participatory Research Methodologies in Gender Research
• Enacting Gender Policies: Lessons Learnt
• Gender and Leadership in Higher Education: Policy gaps and challenges
• Gender and socio-economic issues in the Informal Sector
• Teaching Gender and Sexuality: Intersections with Ethnicity/Religion/Social Class/(Dis) Ability
• Innovative and Culturally Sensitive Models of Addressing Gender Based Violence (GBV)
• Youth, gender and sports/athletics
• Gender Inclusive/Sensitive Counseling Models
• Engaging Men in Gender and Development Initiatives
• Analysis of affirmative action models

Group Two

• Integrated Urban planning strategies that considers environmental effects on economic development (cases of Eldoret town or other towns and its environs may be cited)
• Ecosystem Management approaches to sustainable urban planning and development
• Urban housing development: Upgrading the Jua kali sector towards reducing urban poverty
• Improving Urban communication systems
• Achieving urban water supply and sanitation
• Developing urban ecotourism and ecoagriculture in North Rift circuit

Group Three

• Innovative approaches to management of HIV/AIDS and other chronic diseases
• Behaviour change model
• Herbal and traditional medicine
• Holistic healing
• Biotechnology and nutrition
• Building Sustainable Campus-Community Partnerships
• Role of communities in university education
• Role of CBOs and civil society in partnerships
• Role of students in sustainable community-campus partnerships
• Models for building and sustaining partnerships

Contact Person:
Dr. Wanjiku Khamasi
email: jcchiko@africaonline.co.ke

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:

Prof. B.E.L Wishitemi (PhD)
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research & Extension)
Tel: +254 (0)53-43355/+254 (0)53-43072/+254 (0)53-43620 ext.480
Fax: 053-43047/43362
E-mail: dvcre@mu.ac.ke

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