You are right Harry. All these bodies should be brought under an
umbrella Authority. Yet another function that could fall under the Authority
would be one regulating ICT educational and training standards,
certification and professionalism. This is an area the Government is not
taking seriously and it is not clear which Ministry to deal with at the
moment. An ICT Authority may be better placed to actualize this by
bringing together the stakeholders and various Ministries such as education, Infocom, labour,
Science & Tech, etc. We need to have in mind that we have big ICT
plans for the country and these can only be achieved by having proper and structured capacity
building and professionalism. (KEPSA is advocating for enactment of IT Practioners
Management Act).
If you are interested, you can become acquainted with the KEPSA proposals by clicking here.
Waudo
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:02:26 +0300, "Harry Hare"
<harry@africanedevelopment.org> said:
> Dear Walu and Waudo,
>
> You may all be right in your positions, but structurally speaking, all
> the
> agencies mentioned by Waudo ought to be under one administrative unit for
> effective management of the sector. Here I have in mind an ICT Authority,
> with functional boards/departments/agencies whatever we may want to call
> them, that may include;
>
> - GITS - Government ICT Implementation and Technical Support function
> - eGov - eGov Policy and Strategic function
> - ICT Board - Marketing and Promotion function
> - CCK - Regulatory function
> - NCS - National ICT Policy Advisory function
>
> Of course the mandate, functions and the legality of the institutions may
> have to be revisited and probably aligned and sharpened for effective
> operations. So the proposed authority can be used to converge the sector
> for
> and building synergies across the said institutions for effective
> management
> and service delivery.
>
> Regards
> Harry
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> From: kictanet-bounces+harry=africanedevelopment.org@lists.kictanet.or.ke
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> On Behalf Of waudo siganga
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:59 PM
> To: harry@africanedevelopment.org
> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] ICT Authority?
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> I would not see any overlap Walu as the bodies you have mentioned have
> their specific mandates which are not encompassing the ICT universe.
> Roughly I think ICT Board is for marketing (Min. of INFOCOM), GITS to
> run Gov. ICT services (Min. of Finance) and the e-Secretariat to
> implement the e-Gov. strategy (Office of Pres.). I am always open to
> correction but meantime I am endorsing the KEPSA proposal.
> Waudo
>
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:23:50 -0700 (PDT), "John Walubengo"
> <jwalu@yahoo.com> said:
> > Waudo,
> >
> > jst wondering if we dont already have enough overlaps
> > between ICT Board, eGovt Secretariate, Government
> > Info-Technology Services (GITS) and now you (KEPSA?) want
> > to add on an ICT authority?
> >
> > walu.
> >
> > --- waudo siganga <emailsignet@mailcan.com> wrote:
> > All this ultimately suggests the necessity for the
> > establishment of an oversight statutory
> > ICT Authority as is being proposed by KEPSA to the ongoing
> > Government harmonization Committee.
> >
> >
> >
> > --- waudo siganga <emailsignet@mailcan.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Actually the Government never voted and was never called
> > > upon to
> > > vote on this issue. The Government only facilitated the
> > > stakeholder committee at KEBS and national voting was
> > > done by
> > > members of that committee. The overall issue however
> > > reiterates
> > > what I see as a persistent problem regarding ICT and
> > > Government:
> > > ICT is wide and diverse, as well as being horizontal to
> > > the
> > > Governm
> > ent structure. This sometimes leads to matters
> > > that are
> > > considered "ICT" not revolving around a central spoke in
> > > the
> > > Governemnt structure. So for example KEBS (and by
> > > extension
> > > issues of ICT standards) falls under the Ministry of
> > > trade. In
> > > the committee that handled OOXML there was no
> > > representative from
> > > the Ministry of Info and Comm., which was a mistake
> > > because the
> > > Government was a Stakeholder. All this ultimately
> > > suggests the
> > > necessity for the establishment of an oversight statutory
> > > ICT
> > > Authority as is being proposed by KEPSA to the ongoing
> > > Government
> > > harmonization Committee.
> > >
> > > Waudo
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:14:43 -0700 (PDT), "Rebecca
> > > Wanjiku" <rebeccawanji
> > > ku@yahoo.com> said:
> > >
> > > Microsoft denies threatening to withdraw
> > > funding
> > >
> > > Microsoft East Africa has dismissed allegations that it
> > > threatened to withdraw funding to Kenya if the government
> > > did not
> > > vote "yes" on OOXML.
> > >
> > > Louis Otieno, Microsoft general manager in East and
> > > Southern
> > > Africa denied the allegations, saying that Microsoft EA
> > > acted
> > > appropriately.
> > >
> > > "We've acted appropriately in all instances. And we are
> > > grateful
> > > that the National Body members engaged in this process
> > > collaboratively and constructively," Otieno said.
> > >
> > >
> > computerworld.co.ke/articles/2008/04/21/microsoft-denies-t
> > > hreatening-withdraw-funding
> > >
> > > Tel. 254 720 318 925
> > > blog:beckyit.blogspot.com/
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