Thank you Grace: Many thanks to Dr Ndemo, too for agreeing to field questions. I find him very accessible and for this he has my "vote". From the outset, though meaningless, I am not sure I want to contribute to a forum called "Bitange for President" again. Most of us seem to erroneously believe that we can only make greta change by being at the top. Sample this - Twitter co-founder, Jack Dorsey had the idea of the social site at age 8! Today, Twitter has been valued at an estimated Sh736 Billion. He didn't think of being a President, he is not, he might never be but there he is - he has literally revolutionized the world. The list of Jack Dorseys is too long to enumerate. Please allow me a kind suggestion: The way you have structured the ongoing discussion is either confusing or complicated for any keen follower, to say the least. Even if there will be a summarized report at the end, you run the risk of mis-interpreting/diluting his ideas. I wish you had settled for the concretized sector/thematic approach - half or a day dedicated for each. You can have all the goodies that Dr Ndemo promises but they can never be sustained in an environment of corruption, poor or non-existent wealth creation incentives and innovations, bad leadership, poor market regulation, unprotected consumers, illiteracy and diminished democracy/public participation. On broad perspectives, let's not only focus on good PR of his long list of achievements. We would have lost the good opportunity. Could we request Dr Ndemo to focus on what has not worked in his Ministry, why and what he intends to do about them. We should only move out of his docket, MOIC after we address these issues. ICT politicization of key regulatory and policy decisions and processes is another area of concern. Can we have him adopt twitter like brief answers? What are the possibilities of having him at the end of the online interviews - go on livestream video with summary of issues and especially on way forward? At the risk of sounding selfish, Dr Ndemo appears well meaning for consumers. But he may be rightly accused of stopping at complaining (like the rest of us?) on a number of issues eg on internet tariffs when he once said ISPs were earning 2000% in profits. Consumer institutional representation in MOIC organs (including regulator CCK) and projects is almost non-existent. There is no ICT Consumer Policy to date. As such consumer privacy, complaint redress mechanism remain unclear even as the Communications Tribunal remains idle for the better part of its life. Thanks again for the opportunity to interview Dr Ndemo. I hope you can also have the regulator come here, too, soon. Kind regards, Stephen Mutoro www.cofek.co.ke From: kictanet-bounces+stephen=cofek.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+stephen=cofek.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Grace Githaiga Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 11:30 AM To: stephen@cofek.co.ke Cc: kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke Subject: [!! SPAM] Re: [kictanet] Bitange for President? Driving Knowledge Economy? OnlineInterview with PS Ndemo Listers So far you have seen what Dr. Ndemo has said. Like Barrack has said and in response to Dr. Ndemo's request, lets please interract freely without confining the debate to themes. We will however produce a report at the end of the discussion and will try and identify themes that will emerge. Dr Ndemo, please keep going....and like Washington has said, you may at the end of the debate want to share your ideas with Prof. Ole Kiyapi :) Edith would like you to respond to the concern of digital signal distribution in Kenya, while Mburu has concerns around how you will convince Treasury to part with the funds to support/realize your vision. Kind Regards Grace ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- If you have the strength to survive, you have the power to succeed. Life is all about choices we make depending upon the situation we are in. Go forth and rule the World!
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 10:52:54 +0300 From: bitange@jambo.co.ke Subject: Re: [kictanet] Bitange for President? Driving Knowledge Economy? OnlineInterview with PS Ndemo CC: kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke To: ggithaiga@hotmail.com
Kanja, Affordable Health will be an outcome of the strategies that I have laid here. This is how it will work.
Infrastructure in my strategy mean provision of some of the promises made in the constitution including housing. We shall design eco houses in the range of Ksh. 100,000 and start implementation from Northern Kenya where our citizens are literallty sleeping outside. From the census, there are about 200,000 households here. These homes will be in urban set up where we shall supply all utilities. Through incentives, encourage other investments such as solar energy, retail stores, dried beef industry, packaged camel and cow milk etc.
Every person will have a smart ID which will be used in all transactions (Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for end to end government). Through the realigned policy the Government will no longer be involved in releif food supply (they have never been good at this world over). Assistance to those who will not have food will be provided in voucher form through the smart ID. They will then redeem their points at the retail store (Uchumi possibly)and purchase the food of their choice.
Since the people will have better housing with utilities and food of their choice, health problems will be minimized thus reallocating funds from curative to preventive health care. This is why I say Affordable health is an outcome of dealing with other related variables.
We have spent more than Ksh. 12 billion to mitigate against hunger in Northern Kenya on an emergency. The solution I propose will cost Ksh. 40 billion but you will never here of hunger or feel the shame of being Kenyan again. You recall we can recover the same amount through e-procurement. Other savings will be utilized to scale up improved livelihood for all Kenyans.
In other parts of the country we shall mob up the youth and take them to the new mega projects of Lamu and the rail links (this is what China and US did when they had a youth bulge) to build infrastructure that will ensure sustained job security. The resources will come from the KKV and converted to provide sustainable projects. Because of the wide spread wages and economies of scale, we can now provide cheap health insurance that will ensure affordable healthcare.
Regards
Ndemo.
Well done Bitange and I would like to add one more theme. Affordable health care for all. Cheers.
Sent from my iPad
On Aug 3, 2011, at 5:27 AM, bitange@jambo.co.ke wrote:
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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