Seems to me like the antagonists/protagonists in this debate are more interested in a power play than in actual solutions.

Boards of corporations have to be kept small, multi-skilled and efficient to allow for better decision making. The solution to bring in "non-qualified", or external expertise is to set up board committees - which most by-laws allow and which usually do not have a limit on membership.

So, guys, forget about the power politics, focus on the business and objectives of the organization and get these comittees to work....oops, I forgot, the board has been disbanded....

le sigh,

Mblayo


On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 1:17 PM, S.M. Muraya via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Walu,

No one disputes we need Academics in the KICTA.

How does the KICTA (following their slogan) make Kenya a "Top 10 Global ICT Hub"?

Noted an EU paper about their top ICT Hubs

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-435_en.htm

The UK tops in academics while Germany tops in research/practicals (patents).

Regards

Murigi / Stanley Muraya

"Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city." Prov 16:32


On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Walubengo J via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Mwendwa,

Attending Board meetings is radically different from supervising PhD/Masters students.  But to answer ur question, my supervisor from a public university is quite accessible - infact I am the one running away from him :-)

walu.
--------------------------------------------
On Sun, 8/10/14, Mwendwa Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [kictanet] ICT Authority Board Appointments Quashed by the High Court
 To: "Walubengo J" <jwalu@yahoo.com>
 Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>, "Mwendwa Kivuva" <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com>
 Date: Sunday, August 10, 2014, 2:07 PM

 >
 > Anyway, my beef in all this saga is that
 the Kenya Communications Act
 > (revised
 2013) has a clause that stipulate that public servants
 (including
 > dons in PUBLIC universities)
 should not sit on some boards including the
 > Communication Authority, Universal
 Service, ICT Authority amongst others.
 >  It however does not bar dons from
 PRIVATE universities to sit on these
 >
 very boards.
 >

 Walu, have you been supervised for a masters or
 PhD by a public
 university don? How
 accessible were they?



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