Yes, Robert.......I see. Certainly,
what GoK needs is ICT Governance. “Without
governance you do not produce good decisions consistently. ‘Governance’ in
the context of the management of ICT crafts a clear framework in which
decisions are made, who makes the decisions about business and technology
developments, who has input into the decision-making process and how the
decisions are formed”. In my opinion, the ICT Board (under Min. Of Info Comm), the
Directorate of e-Government (under OP), the GITS Department (under Min. Of
Finance), and both the CCK and NCS (both under Min. Of Info Comm) seem to
have related ICT goals and objectives. They (unfortunately) don’t seem to
oftenly collaborate in their decision-making. I personally like the idea
of a KITA like SITA/RITA. Sometime ago, the Directorate of e-Government
seemed to come-up into a KITA (in the way we think of SITA/RITA), but did
not ‘mature’ into the institution envisioned. GoK ICT
Governance Decisions would ideally focus on: ·
Determining the strategic approach to e-government and ICT within
GoK ·
How the e-government initiatives should be used in GoK, to improve
services, reduce costs, develop the community,
etc ·
How fundamental e-government and ICT is to GoK and the country at
large ·
The way e-government and ICT is to be managed (e.g. by what
mechanism and how resources are to be
managed) ·
The way investments are to be made and policies on realising and
sharing benefits ·
How the required skills are to be procured (through strategic
partnerships, in-house, through consortium,
etc) ·
The principles that underlie the ICT
architecture ·
Setting priorities and determining e-government and ICT investment
programmes ·
Managing the foundations and regulations regarding the core
elements of the infrastructure: o Personnel – who will be responsible for their professional
development and where certain skills should
reside o Methods and techniques – what project/programme management,
development and operations management standards should be
used o Charging mechanisms and services standards (performance
management) o Information – standards to enable the effective sharing of
information o Core applications – intranet, finance systems, payroll, registries
and personnel standards, etc o Technical – network, consolidated service desk, data
standards o Security o Legal This has conspicuously missed within GoK, in the past years. We
look to GoK greatly to spur ‘mwananchi’ by keenly committing to ‘add
value’ to broadband so that their attitude, confidence and appreciation
towards the use ICTs and the Internet increases (especially in the rural
areas, as they access Government e-Services), thus creating an Internet
Community and an IT culture. Am not sure we necessarily need support from
outside to do this, even donor funds (we don’t need). We can do it on our
own, as we (Kenya) are, now, known to be an emerging knowledge economy.
GoK can lead the way to create a Kenyan way ‘working with’and using ICT.
We have so many Youth (any way), who are jobless! Lets purposefully
develop capacity of these young and use them
sufficiently. I rest my case, and I apologise for any
misunderstandings. LILIAN
--- On Tue, 4/6/10, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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