Dear colleagues and Mr. Kukubo I just want to clarify that the pasha centers do exist, and I have viewed them. As of my last audit, many were not yet in operation, so we may need to go do another review. With regards to the safaricom digital villages, based on my research, which many on this list participated in, it is indeed fair to say that they do not really exist, other than as private cybers with a banner. It is possible that massive improvements have been made, in which case lets go out in the field this summer! Mr. Kukubo, perhaps you need to make a strong effort to brand the pashas separately from the digital villages. Take care, and kind regards, Warigia On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe@gmail.com>wrote:
Hmm, seems to me that COFEK's credibility is decaying rapidly with these kind of false allegations, one would expect a consumer body to embrace the highest standards for integrity, honesty, fairness....but apparently......
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Paul Kukubo <pkukubo@ict.go.ke> wrote:
Dear listers
The article by COFEK (Consumer Federation of Kenya) on their website, http://www.cofek.co.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1529%3Awhy-ndemo-may-have-been-missed-on-the-ict-docket&catid=1%3Alatest-news&Itemid=62creates the impression that digital villages do not exist. The Kenya ICT Board wishes to correct this position.
The Kenya ICT Board has committed funding for 65 Pasha centres to date across the country. For a factual update, we urge listers to visit. http://www.ict.go.ke/index.php/digitalinclusion. We will update this even further with an announcement we are making on Monday to further develop these centres.
The Kenya ICT Board will write to COFEK formally providing further information in the public interest on the basis of COFEK's stated goal as stated on their website "advocacy is based on authentic information as backed by continuous research."
We have finalised our 6 year report on the Kenya ICT Board which is currently being printed. we shall upload a digital copy onto our website, in the next week or so. This will make an exciting read on the sector.
My view as the outgoing Kenya ICT Board CEO is that Dr Ndemo provided the vision, compeled us to seek a world class approach, set the tone of energetic execution, helped us cement partnerships in order to improve capacity, and focus on enterprise development, innovation and the ordinary citizen. He cautioned against getting too carried away in ICT dogma, but asked that we rather just get the job done. This was augmented with spirit of learning to pick up quickly from mistakes, (and many were made). There will be much debate, and indeed many things are left for the next team to do.
As a team, we gave this our very best effort and Dr Ndemo gave us a style of leadership that even in the best private sector environments, you will struggle to find. (I will write more extensively on this later.)
We reaped a leadership dividend in the sector, with support from the highest level of government. On this score there can be no debate. The country is much better for it
We pray this carries on.
Asante
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