Yes, certainly annual progress reports would be helpful
From:Barrack Otieno
To:KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Cc:Adam Lane
Date:2018-02-26 14:46:38
Subject:Re: [kictanet] CA’s Sh85m plan to link remote areas with mobile voice

Hi Adam,

In light of the intense criticism the USF board has received, it needs
to come out strongly and clarify what it has achieved unless it is not
independent as we are made to beleive.

Regards

On 2/26/18, Adam Lane via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> I believe the fund already connected about 70 rural sites (as well as
> several hundred schools) last year so has begun to make progress.
> From:Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet
> To:Adam Lane
> Cc:Mwendwa Kivuva
> Date:2018-02-26 14:36:09
> Subject:Re: [kictanet] CA’s Sh85m plan to link remote areas with mobile
> voice
>
> Ksh85m is too little too late from a fund that has collected billions.
> Running a single BTS is resourse intensive. It requires physical
> security, generators, power lines, road access, human resource ... and
> much more.
>
> Spending the USF on benchmarking trips and allowances seems the modus
> operandi of this board. For the upteenth time, I also join Ali's call
> for the board to be disbanded immediately.
> ______________________
> Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya
> twitter.com/lordmwesh
>
>
>
>
> On 26 February 2018 at 08:09, Ali Hussein via kictanet
> <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>> Victor
>>
>> As they say in accounting terms - That’s not even a rounding error in the
>> scheme of things.
>>
>> CA needs to be more creative than this. Here’s a thought:-
>>
>> Disband the moribund USF Board and get people who are independent,
>> forward
>> thinking and unafraid to do the right thing.
>>
>> Let’s stop pussyfooting around such a big issue when a large swath of
>> this
>> country is being disenfranchised by lack of connectivity while we
>> continue
>> to pat ourselves in the back as the ‘Silicon Savannah’.
>>
>> Ali Hussein
>> Principal
>> Hussein & Associates
>> +254 0713 601113
>>
>> Twitter: @AliHKassim
>>
>> Skype: abu-jomo
>>
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>>
>>
>> "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a
>> habit."  ~ Aristotle
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On 26 Feb 2018, at 7:36 AM, Victor Kapiyo via kictanet
>> <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>> The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) will spend millions to build
>> infrastructure to connect remote villages without mobile voice coverage
>> following an order by President Uhuru Kenyatta to surrender unspent
>> billions
>> to the police.
>>
>> Mr Kenyatta said the authority had nothing to show for the billions of
>> shillings it has collected for a fund established to support
>> infrastructure
>> in remote areas dubbed the Universal Service Fund (USF).
>>
>> Now, CA has announced plans to spend Sh85 million in connecting 23,000
>> residents in six sub-locations in Baringo County to mobile voice
>> coverage.
>>
>> 85m only.
>>
>>
>> https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/economy/CA-s-Sh85m-plan-to-link-remote-areas-with-mobile-voice/3946234-4319204-gbsfna/index.html
>>
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