Walibengo, I am equallly frustrated because it takes at least four years to go through Cabinet, AG's office and Parliament. These are processes beyond my control. Iy you recall, we merged the two FOIs, the Prof. Nyongo one and our own draft. We indeed agreed that I send to Cabinet. I have promised practically anyone I meet that the bill will soon be out of Cabinet soon. I am confident that it will happen one day since FOI for example is an agenda 4 item. Regards Ndemo.
Bwana PS,
true that these drafts were debated and i recall attending the forum at KSPS. Problem is this was a while back (2006-7) but the problem has always been that you never get to know what part of non-government stakeholders contributions were taken on board (went to the cabinet) and which parts were ignored.
Eventually ofcourse one will get to know the details when the Bill gets to the floor of Parliament. And then the real challenge starts in that if other stakeholders think that what is before parliament is not "inclusive" enough, they will try to influence MPs to change it accordingly. At that level ONLY the big "influential" stakeholders (read: donors/private sector) can get the attention of the MPs; let alone their "buy-in" to make changes (read: forget our famous wanjiku's input at this level)
Finally, even if the big stakeholders do get their changes in, if at all the Executive feels that those changes significantly alter their original policy objectives, they can always play the red card (veto) and take the whole process back to square1.
So in short, my submission is that it is always cheaper to build and probably more importantly confirm consensus at the beginning of the policy process rather than towards the end.
walu.
--- On Sat, 7/24/10, bitange@jambo.co.ke <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote:
From: bitange@jambo.co.ke <bitange@jambo.co.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Privacy vs National Interest-Draft DataProtectionBill? To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Saturday, July 24, 2010, 9:17 AM
We debated the FOI and Data Protection at School of Monetary studies. We shall as public have another go at it when it is published and gone through the first reading in Parliament.
Ndemo.
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Dear Edith,
Cabinet Memoranda are classified documents intended for tabling in Cabinet Meetings. These documents are regulated by strict rules issued by the Presidency ...when they are approved then the Bill goes to Parliament and is again in the public domain for your input as per Parliamentary procedures.
Enjoy your Furahi day all.
Kind regards
David
On 7/22/10, Edith Adera <eadera@idrc.or.ke> wrote:
Dr Ndemo,
Can it not be circulated to stakeholders for review? Wasn't a participatory process followed to draft it?
Edith
-----Original Message----- From: kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of bitange@jambo.co.ke Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 11:03 AM To: Edith Adera Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] Privacy vs National Interest-Draft Data ProtectionBill?
The draft bill is in Cabinet.
Ndemo.
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