Hello Walu, I rectified the hiccups yesterday, so I believe it should be fine. * On 01/11/06 21:36 -0800, John Walubengo wrote: | Wash, | | I think your KICTANet list is having serious hiccups. | Attached is what i sent on Tuesday morning. Today is Thrs | and am yet to see it pop-out.. | | Maybe Alice can forward the comments - now that I see she | seems to be the lucky one with her 'posts' going through. | | walu. | | --- John Walubengo <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote: | | > Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:27:47 -0800 (PST) | > From: John Walubengo <jwalu@yahoo.com> | > Subject: Re: [Kictanet] Nationmedia.com News: Kibaki | > launches vision for growth | > To: Kenya ICT Policy - kictanet <kictanet@kictanet.or.ke> | > | > How tragic indeed. Huge oversight if ICT has no central | > role in this Vision 2030....further more it seems to | > focuse on Industrialisation (halloo! that used to be the | > target for economies in the 1950s). | > | > Now people talk about a Knowledge economy. Indeed | > Industrialisation per-se no longer provides a competitive | > advantage. The advantage lies in leveraging Information | > Technologies to create value beyond Industrialisation. | > | > Vision 2030 might be targeting the future - but using the | > 'side' mirror i.e driving into the future but relying too | > much in the previous, economical fundamentals. We need | > to | > refocus it into the right direction. I don't know how | > and | > if there is room and a role for KICTANet here. | > | > walu. | > | > | > --- Nation Media <news@nationmedia.com> wrote: | > | > | > --------------------------------- | > | > eadera@idrc.or.ke has sent you this article from | > Nationmedia.com with this message: | > Colleagues,It is TRAGIC! that vision 2030 has not given | > prominence to the role of ICTs as an enabler - it's not | > highlighted in the article, maybe in the document | > itself?. | > Who's working on the strategy to deliver this vision? and | > what role can we play as KICTANET to change this? This is | > a | > challenge I throw to all of us! We must do something! The | > countries mentioned in this article have been | > fundamentally | > transformed by ICTs. your views on practical steps we can | > take to ensure ICTs are well integrated in the strategy? | > EdithKibaki launches vision for growth Published: | > 10/31/2006By: MUGO NJERU | > --------------------------------- | > | > President Kibaki yesterday launched an ambitious economic | > programme aimed at transforming Kenya into an economic | > powerhouse with a sustainable growth rate of 10 per cent | > by | > 2030. | > The President told leaders to keep politics out of the | > project dubbed Kenya Vision 2030. | > | > President Kibaki greets Nation CEO Wilfred Kiboro and | > other | > members of the National Economic and Social Council | > yesterday before officially launching Vision 2030 at KICC | > in Nairobi. The vision is expected to transform Kenya | > into | > a prosperous nation. Photo/William Oeri. | > | > He said: "Vision 2030 goes beyond any single government, | > party, political persuasion or religion. It is a call to | > all Kenyans to make it possible for us to wipe out from | > our | > land absolute poverty, famine, mass unemployment and | > preventable deaths from malaria and water-borne | > diseases." | > | > Although President Kibaki said he was optimistic that the | > development goal would be achieved, it will depend on how | > the country manages its affairs in the next five years. | > High quality of life | > "Under Vision 2030, we see ourselves becoming a | > middle-income, prosperous country, providing a high | > quality | > of life for all our people," the President said at the | > launch of the initiative at the Kenyatta International | > Conference Centre in Nairobi. | > To realise the goal, he said Kenyans must build on the | > competitive advantages in key sectors of the economy to | > expand the country's share of the global market. | > Besides the 10 per cent growth over 25 years, another | > pillar of the programme will be building a just and | > cohesive society with equitable social development and a | > clean and secure environment. | > The initiative also aims at building a democratic | > political | > system that nurtures issue-based politics, the rule of | > law | > and protects the rights and freedoms of every individual | > and society. | > Several leaders at the meeting described the vision as | > noble and said it should be supported by all Kenyans. ODM | > Kenya secretary-general Anyang Nyong'o said the vision | > was | > good but its success would depend on the goodwill of | > successive governments. "The Government and the | > opposition | > are united on this vision," he said. | > Finance minister Amos Kimunya said its success depended | > on | > people working together as one nation. | > He and other speakers said it was possible to propel the | > country to the levels of economies like Malaysia, | > Singapore, Indonesia, Chile and South Korea, most of | > which | > which were in the same economic footing with Kenya in the | > 1970s. | > Trade and Industry minister Mukhisa Kituyi said the | > vision | > is achievable if it is not held hostage by any government | > and if it receives support from the media and the private | > sector. | > President Kibaki said for the country to realise the | > success of the vision, it was important to put in place a | > clear strategy detailing what needed to be achieved for | > each of the pillars of the programme for the next five | > years. | > He said that over the years, coffee production has been | > declining from over 120,000 tons a year to less than | > 50,000 | > this year, which had a devastating effect on farmers' | > incomes and employment opportunities. | > "We need to make sure that under Vision 2030, the | > strategies that will be developed will not repeat the | > mistakes of the past and avoid imposing a costly burden | > on | > the people of this country," he said. | > On manufacturing, the President said the sector had | > barely | > grown in the last 20 years. "The textile industry which | > was | > very vibrant in 1970s and 1980s has virtually been wiped | > out while the EPZ-based enterprises are experiencing | > serious competition in the global market," he said. | > Leather and other livestock-related industries have also | > not made significant breakthroughs in the global market | > although these are sectors in which Kenya could have | > competitive advantage and growth if the right strategies | > and policies were applied. | > "I challenge the experts who are developing the | > strategies | > to pay special attention to these sectors for the next | > five | > years, because they have the greatest potential for | > delivering widely shared economic and social benefits for | > the Kenyan people," President Kibaki said. | > On tourism, he noted that although the number of tourists | > visiting Kenya had increased over the last few years, | > income from the sector was far below that of small | > European | > countries, the Caribbean and North Africa. | > With proper planning and investment, the country should | > be | > able to attract and accommodate five million tourists by | > 2012, the President said. | > He said the economic performance of any country was | > closely | > tied to the application of science and technology and | > that | > was why the country was investing considerably in higher | > education and research institutions. | > The vision strategy, he said, should be geared towards | > enhancing Kenya's scientific and technological capacity, | > promoting a scientific culture and integrating science | > and | > technology into the production and service sectors. | > There was also need to expand, upgrade and sustain health | > facilities while ensuring that they remain accessible and | > affordable to all Kenyans. | > President Kibaki said rapid urban population growth had | > resulted in serious unemployment, growing slums and an | > increase of hawkers. It was also causing a severe strain | > on | > the provision of services such as maintenance of law and | > order, water supply, sewerage and sanitation, education | > and | > health facilities. | > The President said: "Effective planning of and ability to | > enforce compliance for the proper administration of our | > cities and major towns requires to be accorded high | > priority in the strategies that will be developed to meet | > the challenges of urbanisation." | > He directed that measures to wipe out slums and replace | > them with well-planned, low-cost houses in all major | > towns | > be implemented without delay. | > | > | > | > --------------------------------- | > to view this article on the web click here | > --------------------------------- | > | > Are you receiving daily news headlines from the Daily | > Nation? 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