Hi Brian - I am intrigued by your announcement praising the "independence" of the CCK. I would like to put your assertions to debate. I am not sure how you define "independence". To me it means the organization is not controlled by any of its stakeholders in its decision-making. So who are the stakeholders? Sometime back it was only Government and some "private sector". We have recently correctly included civil society. Maybe we need to add the technical community as well as academia. I cannot recall the provisions of the enabling instrument (Info and Comms Act) but the point I would like to make is that all the reps of the "stakeholders" on the Board are appointed BY THE GOVERNMENT. I am open to correction but I cannot recall any point in time when the private sector has been approached to nominate private sector reps to the CCK Board. Perhaps same for other stakeholders. If the resultant Board ends up being described as "Independent" then perhaps my online dictionary has been hit hard by a virus. Compare this with Government bodies like the Public Procurement Oversight Authority. The enabling instrument, Public Procurement and Disposals Act 2005 clearly sets forth how the governing organs like the Advisory Board are set up. There is a bottom up participatory process where stakeholders, including associations, are empowered by the Act to nominate persons they know well from their industry spheres, and the Minister for Finance makes his final selections only from the resultant list. Somewhere in that Act the Computer Society of Kenya is listed explicitly as a nominating agency. I have never seen such provisions in the Board nomination processes for ICT related public entities including the CCK. Maybe if you have better information you can let me know the process how the Board of CCK gets to be populated then hopefully I can believe you that CCK is "independent". Waudo On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:54:13 +0300, "Brian Longwe" <blongwe@gmail.com> sa id: Bw Wafula, I can assure you - after many years of working with regulators and operators across all of Africa Kenya has the most independent, proffesional and focused regulatory authority. Take a look at South Africa - capture - spells out what ICASA has been under since inception What country can you point to that has the levels of independence and autonomy that CCK has. Brian On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:15 AM, joseph wafula <[1]muliaro@yahoo.com> wrote: I congratulate Mr Njoroge for the appointment as DG for CCK, however I still find the criteria used weak if what was in last Saturday Nation newspaper was part of the criteria. What is clear is that we are far from expecting CCK to meet WTO expectation of an independent regulator. CCK is strongly under what I term "political capture". The issue of salary one earns as a prerequisite for short-listing for the post makes it even worse in my view. What is the future for such criteria in the eyes of all stakeholders particularly those in private sector, Foregn Direct Investors etc? the question is, how can such officer be free from government influence and special interest? Perhaps the criteria of appointment need to be revised to give an independent outfit and sectoral professionalsm to CCK DG position. Dr Muliaro Wafula Lecturer JKUAT & Director Kenya E-governance and E-Content Backbone --- On Wed, 7/23/08, Shem Ochuodho <[2]shemochuodho@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Shem Ochuodho <[3]shemochuodho@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [kictanet] New DG To: [4]muliaro@yahoo.com Cc: "New Vision List" <[5]newvisionkenya@yahoogroups.com>, "Robert Onyango-Alai" <[6]alai.robert@gmail.com>, "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <[7]kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 6:14 AM Dougi, Of course Google (and its variants!) has never been the only method to gauge qualification! Sadly, it is/they are the only measure we have these days, especially for ICT! Brian, I have never known in any profession what you say to be a parameter for qualification or eligibility. Otherwise if it were, wouldn't people like Atieno Ochola (gender notwithstanding), Matano Ndaro, Michael Katundu, John Omo, and many more at CCK be as much deserving? Lest am asked: 'declare your interest', let me do so. The other day I noticed an MP (who is either a present or past CCK director) contribute to a motion on CCK without 'declaring interest'; he was lucky to get away with it. I too applied for this job, not because I expected to be considered, but to find out if Kenya had changed; if we had moved on to a New Kenya where it didn't matter where [in Kenya] you came from, who you knew, whose son/daughter you had married, etc. We do not seem to have learnt from the events of the turn of the [last] year! Kenya appears to be sitting on a time bomb. Formation of the coalition does not seem to have detonated it. I have previously contended that Kenyan informaticians are endangered. How right I am/was. The words 'mediocricity, political expediency, ethnic bigotry' keep ringing on my ears. So, it now appears we cannot find an eligible informatician to lead CCK and we have to get an economist! I wait for the day, for instance, when the IMF shall be headed by an informatician, or one James Rege shall be Finance Minister! Short of the ICT professionals organizing themselves and regaining their space, we have a long wait. Best rgrds, Shem --- On Mon, 7/21/08, Brian Munyao Longwe <[8]blongwe@gmail.com> wrote: From: Brian Munyao Longwe <[9]blongwe@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [kictanet] New DG To: "Shem Ochuodho" <[10]shemochuodho@yahoo.com> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <[11]kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 5:54 PM IMHO Njoroge has been "the power behind the throne" for every one of the last DGs. I think he will make an excellent leader. His time has come. Congrats Bw Njoroge Brian Sent from my iPhone On 21 Jul 2008, at 9:32 PM, "waudo siganga" <[12]emailsignet@mailcan.com> wrote: Anyone with background info on new DG? Google only has the appointment dd 21/7 On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:40:24 +0300, "Wainaina Mungai" <[13]wainaina@madei nkenya.org> said: I would assume Nyaki meant "effective engagement" rather than "effective management" Regards Wainaina On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Catherine Adeya <[14]elizaslider@yahoo.com> wrote: Walu, Your suggestion for 3.5 is good though I think it should simply be 'How to organize Associations for Effective Managment with the Government. Unless I heard wrong, KTN Sunrise news this morning announced Mr Charles Kinyanjui Njoroge as the new CCK DG. Nyaki ----- Original Message ---- From: John Walubengo <[15]jwalu@yahoo.com> To: [16]elizaslider@yahoo.com Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <[17]kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 2:31:33 PM Subject: Re: [kictanet] Forum Agenda - Lets focus Harry, Indeed it would be a public forum - but to what extend has the message gone outside Nairobi given that most listservers have subscribers in NRB? 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