Solomon, Since we are on education and ICT today, I need to expound what we can do to make our country a better place to live in. Let us not talk about ICT in terms of e-learning and other minimalist thinking on what we can do with it on a larger scale. I shall make sure that we use the resource to completely change Africas thinking and more specifically Kenya. Africas GDP was $1.6 trillion in 2008 and is expected to hit $3,2 trillion in 2020. We must therefore strive to attaining 10% of this in which case we must grow the economy at more than 15% annually. This is possible considering the fact that Brazils economy in early 1990s was in complete shambles with inflation worse than Zimbabwe. In less than 20 years they moved from a begging nation to a lending nation. China moved 300 million people out of poverty in 10 years. We have 20 million Kenyans today in poverty. A good ICT infrastructure, rich neighbours and thousands of young educated Kenyans. I will therefore suspend all business education programs in all Universities and introduce gemology, engineering and creative art. Move to solidify diplomatic relations with all our neighbours. Ensure goods destined for Uganda, Rwanda, DRC and Burundi get to their borders in a day. We shall then begin an aggressive program to help DRC especially with adding value to their mineral and assisting her people to attain higher education in Kenya. Market Kisumu as diamond valley where affordable diamonds will be found. The citys proximity to regional raw materials is critical to the valley strategy. The aim is to dislodge Belgium as the World diamond capital. We must also follow this with creating a steel processing industry in Homa Bay. Here we shall deal with Chinese who take Iron Ore from DRC to process in China. Instead we have it barged on Lake Victoria, processed in Homa Bay then ship the finished product to China. This is where engineering will become essential. The creative arts role is to produce regional content especially on learning material to use as a platform for exerting regional influence. We need to surpass Nollywood productions. Our advantage here is that Swahili is widely spoken in the region. There is a vacuum of regional content as Western content continue to wane. Remember how the Lingala music dominated the region. Our productions must come with a message of regional unity, provide regional broadband network and regional support in ICT. We must have our own ICT regional Peace Corps to work in all countries. The broadband networks will create greater intra Africa Trade relations that we do not have at the moment. The regional content is to create local understanding and forge regional unity that is key to socio economic stability. Kenya should therefore play a central role in all this and facilitate growth in all neighbouring countries. This is why I said that our foreign policy will focus on Africa but this will not come easy since there are entrenched interests. There will therefore a need to create a regional search engine, Eagle.ea, that will have content from all the regional languages. This point of reference will be key to continued regional influence for sustained economic growth. This outside-in strategy will help us close the silos we have that cannot allow MOIC impact on MOE ICT activities. Regards Ndemo.
Thank you dakitari. Your hypothesis are in order, and they give me (and I believe more onlist) what is required to make the development of Kenya achievable. Since you're a 'candidate', I can now posit what we (both the private sector and the government) need to do for the purpose of sustainaining our resources. The backdrop has always been "we don't have enough funding", or "we have a deficit of this much so we can't do much" etc. Therefore PPP will come in handy. Since your proposals are hypothetical, a pace has been set. There is a demand for integrating ICT into the education system withoout the fear of becoming 'machines'.
Now, back to the topic of the day, is the National ICT policy (I think it was developed in 2004 or 2006), being integrated into the education system to meet the National Goals of Education? {Maybe my explanation is not clear} The Kenyan Secondary Education Syllabus is undergoing thrrough some reviews to point out the emerging issues in the new constitutional dispensation such as peace education (as a result of PEV), Ethics and Integrity ( because corruption has taken the centre stage in almost all sectors), and of course e-learning ( to meet the dynamics of education, moving from traditional learning environment to where the teacher is virtual).
I'm just thinking a loud, in a jam!
On 03/08/2011, bitange@jambo.co.ke <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote:
Solomon, I was making hypothetical proposals. This means that I will get my policy proposals funding. We can however achieve what you asking even today. That I can respond after my "candidacy" debate is over in four days time.
As a "cadidate", I will not focus on resource availability so much because this the usual excuse we give year in year out and return the entire budget to Treasury. So I will ensure an Intergrated Financial Management is in place and working. This will allow me to shift resources that are likely to be unused to more alert sectors. Performance of accounting offiers will be based on delivery of service.
Remember the Open Government I said. This will ensure public participation where resources from efficiencies will be utilized to improve the same sector till we fully aligned to International standards.
Regards
Ndemo.
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Dr. Ndemo,
My questions are still unanswered. I did not want to limit my points on the pointed out themes, thus they circled aroud: 1. Since most of these projects would require money, how can we bring The Treasury PS on board? I've noticed the Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta uses social media to highlight the various issues the government is doing, notably ESP and recently the budgetaary process. Further to this, can other line PSs be brought on board since the issues you've mentioned are cutting across the ministries? 2. The Medium Term Plan(2008-2012) of the Vision 2030 is on course, can there be a way in which we can know what has been achieved, stalled or is on course (apart from the expansion of Thika Road)? Perhaps we can be able to borrow a thing or two on how to work around the three pillars (Social, Economic and Political). In addition to this, how can the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) and Vision 2030 secretariats can also be aboard, to spell their aspects on the points you've highlighted? 3. I think it's practically when we engage with accounting officers (PSs) in various ministry to share ideas because this is necessary for taking sustainable human development.
Asante.
On 03/08/2011, Info <info@amwik.org> wrote:
These are fantastic ideas. Corruption and crime have also gone digital and requires multi-strategies. On another note, am sharing the advert attached and am sure you could be of assistance.
Jane
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Wish to concur on ICTs in reducing corruption. Transparency International (Kenya) concluded circa 2007 that the institutions in government, that had significantly reduced corruption, had implemented various institutional reforms (where ICT falls). This is in comparison to disincentives through criminalisation/prosecution. At the time, the Teachers Service Commission was an example.
Those interested in more on this subject, see more here (my review on the Ethics and Anti-Corruption bill) http://wamuyublog.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/the-ethics-and-anti-corruption-bi ll-?-a-review/
Wamuyu
Quoting bitange@jambo.co.ke:
Gilda, This is easy. When I talked of end to end government, it means we shall have a Public Key Infrastructure in place and intergrated registration system. From birth, smart ID, death permits to KRA all will be intergrated. This will eliminate all those vote when they are dead.
Digitalization of all registries will create traceability at all levels. See what has happened at Company Registry. Revenue is up from 30 m to 80 m. You will no longer have temporally registered companies with unknown directors as it happened with Anglo Leasing.
Open data means that you will track public expenditure to the last shilling. You will for example know what I have been paid and for what purpose. Of course I also talked about e-procurement and judiciary.
With these measures we shall have dealt with 70% of corruption and begin to restore trust in government. After this you can start dealing with the culture which accounts for 30% of corruption. People must see justice and fairness before you change systems. Change is all about trust.
We are all inherently corrupt and we are at a stage we can deal with the desease once and for all. The time is now and we must keep hope alive.
Regards
Ndemo.
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Dr.Ndemo,
Could you provide us with substantial information on how you will use ICT to eliminate corruption taking into account the value change needed in our society? I believe corruption is the main reason this country is not where it should be.
Regards,
Gilda
Quoting bitange@jambo.co.ke:
In summary, Again hypothetically my major themes shall be: Kwowledge for life Infrastructure for Development Food security (including Value addition) Employment (create tons of it)
One Kenya. Unity in diversity. Keep hope a live (borrowed from Rev. Jesse Jackson).
Ndemo. Sent from my BlackBerryR
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