Hi Wash,

Many thanks for your email. I encourage you to have a look at the ISO
27,000 Series of Standards. They are very good Standards for
Information Security(see
https://www.itgovernance.co.uk/iso27000-family) for a quick
explanation.

Actually it is good practice to have public and private organizations
certified just as we had the ISO 9000 series quality management
standards that were part of the government appraisal system. The
Standards are very good for managing streamlining internal information
system processes including the management of suppliers and other
people interfacing with the organizations systems, however stakeholder
engagement and involvement to ensure there is buy in is highly
recommended. I suspect this is where ICTA has missed the point albeit
being well intentioned. I think the only organization that is
certified or is ready to be certified is CA on this series of
standards. Kenya through Kenya Bureau of Standards is a voting member
(P) in the International Standards Organization and domesticates most
of this standards which are then referred to as KENISO Standards. Most
are very good standards that can be used in the public and private
sector but require understanding. They are also very cheap (ranging
from KES 3000). I encourage listers who have time to visit the KEBS
library and see for themselves what is available. Meanwhile ICTA needs
to engage the public to explain what they are trying to achieve since
this is where they slipped. This is however different from the issue
of practitioners.

Regards

On 2/21/17, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

GB and listers

This simply is incredulous. We seem to have come to a point where we have a

ministry which seems to be speaking a different language to the community

and country it purposes to serve.

Ali Hussein

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On 21 Feb 2017, at 12:51 AM, Grace B via kictanet

<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Listers,

We may need to ask ourselves what public participation means. I remember

we had a long debate here in December 2016 about this regulation of the

profession through the backdoor. Many listers raised valid points about

the issue.

Why then would the Ministry through ICTA proceed to implement the

problematic directive anyway?

At a policy level there is even more confusion. The government states that

it wants to get more youth to enjoy the benefits of government tendering.

The same government acknowledges that the youth are significant players in

ICT services/goods. Then the same government goes ahead to give a policy

that will lead to more hurdles for ordinary youth and their eventual

exclusion in tendering for ICT services. What is!

At the risk of repetition, here is a link to Kwame Owino's article on

policy corruption. He argues that some policies are designed to favour

certain elite people and this ICTA directive (as read with our discussions

in December 2016) seems to be just that. One can even argue that this

policy excludes ICT procurement from the AGPO policy and the ease of doing

business in Kenya aspirations.

I will not even get into the issue of basis. How does a government entity

wake up and decide to start a licencing regime? Does anyone understand

what legal provision they are anchoring this on? I hope that ICTA or the

Ministry can favour us with an explanation.

Regards,

2017-02-20 22:42 GMT+03:00 Anderson Levi via kictanet

<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>:

If I may I think what Wash, is saying is that many on this list may not

be aware of what is being implemented a.k.a. the noise of other issues is

obscuring it.

On 20 Feb 2017 21:31, "Barrack Otieno via kictanet"

<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Hi Wash,

This is a different issue. It has to do with standardization of IT

processes using ISO Standards that are domesticated at Kenya Bureau of

Standards like the ISO 27000 series that focus on IT Security and

Governance. ICTA and KEBS have been engaging on how this can be

achieved for the past year.

Regards

On 2/20/17, Odhiambo Washington via kictanet

<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Hello Listers,

Sorry to interfere with the debate on CA spying on us. There is a

short

break as Okiya Omtatah fights for and maintains our freedoms...

Please read the attachment and let me know what you think...

It looks like the ICTA/MoICT are implementing something ...

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