Waweru,

 

Thanks for your comments. To conclude that Vision 2030 is “fairly ideological” is misguided. Vision 2030 was launched in June 2008 by the Grand Coalition Government after extensive deliberations by the three key coalition partners. Indeed one of the great benefits of the Grand Coalition Government is that it allowed us to launch a long term national development plan absent an official opposition which ensured wide-ranging political consensus. Going forward, it is important we secure this for posterity hence the determination to take Vision 2030 to parliament for official sanction by the people’s representatives.

 

As far as public servants go, they serve the government of the day, currently the Grand Coalition Government and it’s policies. When a new government come in, they will also expect public servants to implement their policies.

 

Regards,

Mugo

 

 

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Mugo Kibati

Director General

Kenya Vision 2030 Delivery Secretariat

KUSCCO Centre, 2nd Floor - Upper Hill

PO Box 52301 - 00200, Nairobi

Email: mugo@vision2030.go.ke

www.vision2030.go.ke

 

From: kictanet-bounces+mugo=vision2030.go.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+mugo=vision2030.go.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Daniel Waweru
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 10:29 PM
To: Mugo Kibati
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Vision 2030: ICT and Other Sectors Converged (Day 2)

 

If it is true that promotion of civil servants depends on reading Vision 2030, then that strikes me as quite illiberal. Vision 2030 is a fairly ideological document, as well as one far more closely identified with one of the coalition partners than with the other. Promotion in what is supposed to be a neutral civil service should not depend on mastering ideological, or apparently partisan, documents. 

 

Daniel Waweru
www.kenyaimagine.com
Art and analysis; debate and opinion.

On 14 December 2011 10:26, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:

I am quite afraid to engage, as like majority of the population and politicians, I am yet to read up on Vision 2030 and its many pillars (though civil servants are required to have knowledge of it before promotion). However , I am keen on a few issues, and not sure how Vision 2030 touches on them

  • Ease of doing business - almost 50 years since independence, government and especially local government are biggest hindrances when it comes to doing business. Are there plans to make it easy to start a business, like even make it free (free licenses) and guarantee site security (for small kiosks, like allocated areas) with the aim that the business will be taxed later on . Free licensing with penalties for those without means we have an idea of number of businesses, which we can tax after 1 year and so on. More businesses means more tax and more employment.
  • Agriculture - our agriculture is still primitive, and for all intents we may still be using stone age tools. How do we move to mass production and economies of scale, mechanize agriculture for small scale holders?
  • Research & manufacturing - we do almost 0 research in this country, meaning we import what is often referred to as "superior technology" from Europe (Germany) and other countries. Why not have universities especially tackle the issue of processing agricultural produce. We also need agricultural produce processing industries to serve our hinterland. Kenya is a small agricultural nation compared to Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan which have more arable land (we can outdo them if we take irrigation seriously)
  • Security - there is virtually no security in this country, seeing that a gang can comfortably set up a toll point on the countries most modern highway (Thika road) and "tax" every motorist Kshs 1,000 , unperturbed. The scenario is repeated across the country where it becomes almost impossible to conduct any activity past dusk.


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