James. We have a corporate communication team. Thanks. The challenge is not communication. The challenge is that in a twitter and Facebook world heresay Is very powerful. One thing I note is that the story originators never publish the clarifications they seek. The role of any CEO is to be accountable. The issues are important and taking a beating Is not a problem. If we have to get praise sometimes, we must accept criticism as well. Social Networks are powerful and they cannot be dealt with by simple corporate glossing over. People can make any sorts of comments. You can either ignore it all. Or choose to engage. We choose to engage. Lack of fact based reporting in blogging and social networking can undermine good goverance. Bloggers can create fear on the basis that it turns drives accountability. Some of them use it as a commercial tool to drive traffic to blogs that make money through advertising. No problem with that. Very exciting and the burden of proof is on the accused. Another model is you pose questions on a matter after digging through facts and ask for a response and have a debate with the view to inform. Very boring. On Monday, May 14, 2012, James Mbugua wrote:
Paul
Thanks for the response. however, it does seem to me then that you need to hire a corporate communications person because the message seems not to be coming out especially to as crucial a public as this ICT list.
Secondly, you are taking a beating from bloggers who you also need to have a strategy to deal with.
Essentially, it comes down to communication because a lot of these things come out if media people feel they are not getting proper information.
Grievances should be dealt with promptly and satisfactorily.
Consider getting yourself a Comms person.
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Paul Kukubo <pkukubo@ict.go.ke> wrote:
Listers
Please visit the Kenya ICT Board website and the World Bank's website detailing the projects under procurement to get a better understanding. We promote this heavily via social networks to get those who are not on this list to be aware.
details of the recently tendered ebusiness transactions project.
Also the details of the above project for the http://www.devex.com/en/projects/kenya-transparency-and-communications-infra...
Once this has been reviewed you have a stronger basis for dialogue.
Paul Kukubo CEO Kenya ICT Board
On Friday, May 11, 2012, S.M. Muraya wrote:
How would under the surface obstruction of transparency promoting IT projects be proven?
Serious question (to which there should be real answers)...
How would we know which public officers cooperated in the project, and which ones opposed it by not cooperating?
On May 11, 2012 6:07 PM, "Barrack Otieno" <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> wrote:
GG,
I have read the article and lost network, may i suggest that we do a stock take of major ICT undertakings on this list to see whether they
have
achieved their purpose, it might be better to stop digging while the surface is still visible.
Best Regards
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga@hotmail.com
wrote:
http://www.wanjiku.co.ke/2012/05/companies-registry-website-cost-62-million-...
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