Dear all, K24 will air the interview I moderated with Harun Ndubi (lawyer & Chairman of Shelter Forum, etc) and Alex Gakuru (Kenya ICT Consumers Association). Tune in to K24 at 6:00pm today with several repeats of the same tomorrow morning. Details will be circulated. Wainaina On 1/5/09, John Walubengo <[email protected]> wrote:
Am watching the situation as it evolves - like many of you are. I did read Ndubi's earlier postings and I think they were quite balanced.
I am aware of the fury and anger from the media - but frankly speaking, I somewhat regret (truly remorseful) that am unable to share their fear (despite the bombardment). Could it be because am relatively thrilled with offerings in the ICT section at the expense of the 'disaster' that awaits us within the Broadcast section? Plse someone, tell me once more...
Am watching the situation as it evolves...
walu. nb: On a lighter note, Thabo Mbeki, former President, S.Africa signed their eTransaction Bill - electronically with his Digital Signature - I wonder if our man at hill did the same ;-)
--- On Sun, 1/4/09, Wainaina Mungai <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Wainaina Mungai <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Kibaki signs Bill into law To: [email protected] Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, January 4, 2009, 9:51 PM Great suggestions,
I feel we can support the media but not in-toto.
First, it would be nice of the MoA et. al. to let go of the negative "Media Bill" campaign and engage constructively with other players.
Secondly, media should consider calling ICT advocacy personalities to a forum where they can share how ICT issues have successfully been incorporated without the animosity that is common when advocating for media issues.
I believe the media needs to feel secure that if their arguments are valid, they'll have our undivided support....issue by issue.
Wainaina
The 4 fundamentals;
1. When the Media fraternity suggested the bill be rejected in-toto, ICT sector players felt this was akin to pouring the birth water together with the baby. Personally I am happy the ICT issues did not go down the drain. And I think that was what many of us were asking for.
2. The Media has genuine concerns as Haron Ndubi articulated in his legal opinion on the probibity of the bill. However, the Media completely blacked out ICT sector concerns during our campaign to have
went out of the way to show the remedies to the issues
miscelleneous amendment bill as suggested in the very fast legal opinion whose author requested we keep his/her identity anonymous.
3. ICT players and especially Kictanet ought to prove it's the bigger wo/man by showing solidarity in the front-line with our cousins in the Media looking for a way out of the quagmire. We do not have to ignore them simply because they refused to side with us in our campaign.
4. We are extremely careless in handling crisis. If you are familiar with Newton's method of factoring variable change and
On 1/4/09, Bill Kagai <[email protected]> wrote: the bill signed. We even through the the Monty Hall
then we can analyse the options the President had mathematically. 4a) Sign Bill 4b) Don't Sign Bill 4c) Do nothing and hold Kenyans in suspense.
Each option had a 33% probability of being the 'right' decision. So, assuming he had not seen the bill earlier since he was not the author and had decided not to sign the bill following the Media owners petition, was it wise to change his decision from 'Don't Sign' to 'Sign'?? Monty Hall <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_paradox>
changing the decision increases the probability of getting it 'right' to 66.6%. And that is proven by the fact that we [in ICT] feel content and support ways of also making our brothers in the media achieve 'State of Nirvana'. This bill will also give the Minister of Finance some head-up before he dismisses innovations such as M-Pesa without
Paradox<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_paradox>, proves that prior knowledge.
Conclusion; For Makali, Openda, Kaikai and other leading Media
are on this list, why don't you invite ICT stakeholders in to your media stations to engage Kenyans on what is good and what is bad in the ICT [not Media] bill so that we can fight together against what we feel is not good?? This has nothing to do with whether the grand coalition will hold or not, since neither the Right Honourable nor His Excellency drafted this bill. We did and the buck should stop with us!!!
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On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:21 PM, alice <[email protected]> wrote:
Thank you Wainaina. Happy 2009. Now that the bill has been signed, what does the ICT industry think about this whole debate? especially those who have worked for such a long time with government to introduce legislation for the sector?
best alice
Happy New Year for ICT development in Kenya.
We can now look at the Media's concerns on
personalities who I know the Kenya Communications
Act and support whatever amendments may be justified.
Wainaina
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