Dear Listers,

Please allow to THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH for your great contributions during the three day "talk to senate" forum.  I must admit the Senate ICT Committee's expectation to get good ideas was surpassed, what with the honest discussions and brilliant ideas you contributed.

I did pick from the discussions that feedback from parliament/policymakers hasn't been optimal in the past so please allow me to provide some preliminary feedback.

Senate ICT Committee  has held a few meetings outside of our normal business to deal with some of the latest happenings and anchored on this, we did discuss some of what we did with you to generate ideas for our committee business. This was very well received by all committee members. We have already submitted some of your broad ideas to our legal team for further processing and advice as to the best next legislative and other actions.

Additionally, the Committee plans to host representatives of this team to present the full report of ideas generated during the three day engagement. I believe the communication to that effect has already reached you.

To strengthen our committee's engagement with its stakeholders, I have enlisted the support of my colleague and fellow Senate ICT committee member Senator Moses Kajwang as additional stakeholder link/focal person for this and other stakeholder groups. List Admin, thanks for adding Senator Kajwang. This shows how seriously we take our stakeholder engagement and the great value we attach to public participation - BTW Thanks very much for the public participation guidelines ideas.

Once again, thank you very much. We look forward to meeting you and translating your great ideas and inputs into legislative and other strategic initiatives.

With kind regards,

Sen. Abshiro Halake 

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 8:32 AM, Grace Githaiga via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Good Morning Listers!

This is to express our appreciation to all those who made such brilliant contributions to the 'Talk to Senate' discussion. The ideas were amazing, and really...such fresh perspectives! There was also alot of learning for some of us. Asanteni sana. 

Please find a summary of the of the issues from each day's discussion.  A  full report is being worked on and will be shared here once we finalize it. 

The issues have been shared with Senator Abshiro and we appreciate her for rendering herself to true public service. She has indicated that she will get back on the list with feedback.

We also appreciate Mercy Mutemi for such wonderful moderation of this discussion. 

Once again, asanteni sana. When implementation of the ideas that you have contributed here commences, then you will know you contributed to building this Kenya into a better place.



Best regards

Grace

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