Fatma, All details for the ICT Board were contained in the corresponding Gazette Notice. A quick browse on the government sites, Parliament http://www.bunge.go.ke/ and Ministry of Info and Comm http://www.information.go.ke/ gave me no reference to the document. So I am compelled to tread carefully and find out if the said Gazette notice is for public consumption and if so, why it is not available in electronic form...I know I sound like the KANU days are back but hey, the environment may have changed but the laws (Secrecy Act and its cousins) are still pretty much the same... walu. --- Fatma Bashir <fbashir@cyberschooltech.com> wrote:
Walu
hi, might you know what the mandate of the ICT board is? in terms of hierachy as well, will it be like Rwanda's RITA ?
Fatma
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Walubengo" <jwalu@yahoo.com> To: <fbashir@cyberschooltech.com> Cc: "Kenya ICT Policy - kictanet" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [kictanet] board members - Procedure for appointment?
Lizette,
FE's contribution to ICT in Kenya is quite exceptional and outstanding. However, when it comes to sitting on non-elective boards, other factors tend to override.
The legislation (Gazette Notice) for the Kenya ICT board and other similar boards accross the world leaves the search and appoint procedures at the pleasure of the President and his respective minister. Now, in a market with excessive ICT and related talent like Kenya, one can only understand if some qualified members miss out (including me maybe? ;-)
Nevertheless, what matters is if the new board can deliver the anticipated benefits within reasonable timeframes. And I believe the six or seven of them will not succeed without the input the likes of FE et al.
walu.
--- Lizette Kraft <lfkraft@gmail.com> wrote:
Congratulations to all the Board members!!
On the other hand, It's amazing how Dr. Florence Etta was not given the opportunity to be nominated and/or participate on the Board!!! As one of the key founders of KICTANET and the name and having contributed extensively to ICT as a whole in everyway!!!! Have we forgotten so fast!!! With no disrespect intended to anyone, but I must ask
Is this the Kenyan way of doing things??? I am sure most of you will agree that at least Florence should have been nominated or asked to participate as a board member. It was then upto her to decide if she was interested to or not, and of course then, the voting or whatever would have been done to determine the members, or so I would think. Is this what everyone agreed to?? would be good to know.
Sorry but its always hard for people to be upfront, truthful and bold enough to ask and I think it's only fair to raise this. What method was used to select the board members??? Important for all to be informed.
Thanks to all best regards
On 8/10/07, Rebecca Wanjiku <rebeccawanjiku@yahoo.com> wrote:
in case you were wondering who are the other board
members, here the names
The other members are: Richard Bell Catherine Adeya Peter Kimacia Kevit Desai Kiptiness from CCK.
Getting a board nowadays is very difficult as you
must take into account
many issues. I hope we got the bast here.
Tel. 254 720 318 925
blog:http://beckyit.blogspot.com/
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