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Dear Grace
Thank you to those who attended the ICT Authority Bill breakfast meeting held on 21st August 2014 at Serena Hotel. For those who did not manage to attend,you can see below a summary of what was discussed.
- Sector capacity and Skills: The Ministry of ICT and ICT Authority will pursue a robust engagement with the Private sector. Stakeholders are invited to input to the PPP's framework to give the ICT perspective. Already, the Authority has developed policies, standards and guidelines on hosting government websites and trained a core team.
- ICT Authority bill: The Ministry is drafting the ICT Authority bill, which will be subjected to public participation. Stakeholders are invited to contribute to the legislation.
- Cyber Security: To address the current challenges the government has constituted an inter-agency collaboration team in addition to the newly launched Kenya Computer Emergency Response Center (KCERT). The Ministry is also collaborating with the Directorate of Public prosecutions on the issue.
- Bills in Parliament: The Information bill has already been tabled in parliament. The ICT Ministry is currently working on the Data Protection Act and Access to Information Bill. This should be ready by December 2014.
- Local Content Framework: The Ministry is drafting the local content Framework that will give affirmative action to local ICT business in Kenya and compel Multinationals to use local skills and plough back gains in the economy. This will be shared for stakeholders input.
- Roaming Charges: From 1st of September 2014 roaming charges will be abolished. A Gazette notice will be published on this.
- Wireless Broadband Spectrum Policy Inputs: Stakeholders are invited to input on the Spectrum policy which will be open for public participation in the next few weeks.
- Rwanda ICT Sector Conference: A team drawn from the private sector will be constituted by the ICT Authority to represent the Country at the conference and convey Kenya's Agenda.
- Innovation Conference: An innovation Conference will be held on 4th-5th December that will bring together venture capitalists and innovators. This will look into how to monetize innovations.
- ICT Infrastructure on LAPSSET Corridor Project: All Heads of States have agreed that ICT infrastructure will be input from the project inception.
- Government Digital Payments: A team is working to move more government services to the digital platform in the next six months.
- ICT Master Plan execution: Already embarked on the implementation of the 16 critical projects identified e.g e-procurement, e-citizen portal.
Once more, thank you for your time and contributions.
Yours sincerely
Victor Kyalo
Ag.Chief Executive Officer
ICT Authority.
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