Sir Tim Berners-Lee will be visiting Kenya on November 19 - 21, 2009. KENET will be hosting him for a breakfast meeting on the morning of 20th November 2009. In attendance will be about 40 researchers, lecturers, and students in computer science and Electrical engineering drawn from various universities who member s of KENET.

The deliberation of the breakfast meeting will be streamed live from kenet servers (www.kenet.or.ke). It will also be available for download as a pod cast from the site.

The visit is also part of preparation for ICANN annual meeting in 2010 that will be held in Nairobi and Africa for the first time ever.

Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, is a British engineer and computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web, making the first proposal for it in March 1989. On 25 December 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student staff at CERN, he implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet. In 1999, Time Magazine named Berners-Lee one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century.[2] In 2007, he was ranked Joint First, alongside Albert Hofmann, in The Telegraph's list of 100 greatest living geniuses.Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web's continued development. He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, and is a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).He is a director of The Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. In April 2009, he was elected as a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, based in Washington, D.C.