Dear Mr.Kibati,
Many thanks for your well articulated responses.
Now that we all acknowledge how much opportunity we’ve lost for possibly up to a third of a century that’s just gone by,
I’d suggest as much as possible we work to put safeguards in place to insulate projected vision frameworks from being
derailed. This is particularly necessary, because we have had numerous “visions” before, that fell flat..
Do we already have these safeguards in place..? My first impression is that this is very much a project full embraced by
our current Government as a steward. How do we ensure successful governments carry on the vision..? Or do we just delink
completely, and have this institutionalized and steered by technocrats instead ( Limited Govt involvement), ..? I recall you
mentioning in an interview yesterday that 70-80% implementation of this vision lies squarely in the hands of the private sector.
To insure these real-time investors in such a long-term vision/dream as this, we may need to relook at the structural framework
that ensures it remains sustainable and on course with an inbuilt capacity to outlive successive administrations till we achieve
our stated goals and more.
Last but not least, could we have at the heart of Vision 2030 the “Sleeping Economic giant” – that is the African continent..?
Let’s look East, West, North and South – continentally, and position ourselves strategically to become the African powerhouse
in every sphere.
Thanks,
Harry
From: Mugo Kibati [mailto:mugo@vision2030.go.ke]
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 7:12 PM
To: harry@comtelsys.co.ke
Cc: 'KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions'
Subject: RE: [kictanet] Vision 2030: ICT and Other Sectors Converged (Day 2)
Please see my comment in [brackets] below once again interspersed in your email.
Regards,
Mugo
Mugo Kibati
Director General
Kenya Vision 2030 Delivery Secretariat
KUSCCO Centre, 2nd Floor - Upper Hill
PO Box 52301 - 00200, Nairobi
Email: mugo@vision2030.go.ke
www.vision2030.go.ke
From: kictanet-bounces+mugo=vision2030.go.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+mugo=vision2030.go.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Harry Delano
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 11:40 AM
To: Mugo Kibati
Cc: 'KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions'
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Vision 2030: ICT and Other Sectors Converged (Day 2)
Grace…
Na hii list imenyamazeko saana..! Ladies and gentlemen, we now have Mr. Kibati with us. Could I please urge all to
engage with him..
Mr. Kibati, many thanks again for your time, and for the candid response – especially on the benchmarks. Honestly
speaking, a lot of the flagship projects being rolled out within the Vision2030 epitomize some “uncharted” territory for us.
However I believe let’s not fear to be bold since, there are a lot of successful case study stories that we can continue to
learn from, especially those of the South-East “Asian Tigers”, as they are popularly called– where they have failed and
where they have succeeded. As we are constantly reminded, we purportedly at some point in the 60’s or 70’s were on
the same footing, if not ahead of some of them before they overtook us at some lightning speed. Let’s quickly work to
catch up.
[Hear hear. I couldn’t agree more]
But again it would be really important to look inwards as Team Vision 2030 ( I really would love to hear from you on this).
We have had a solid 48 years ( we just celebrated an anniversary). What poignant lessons do we draw..? Why have we
failed to make most of the opportunities we had? How do we address this, and include it in the vision2030…?
I suppose this would be the best point to look at ourselves, and consider the reasons why others succeeded and we
failed – badly.
[Forgive me for saying this but we did not have long term visioning to focus our thinking, strategizing and policies. We also “wasted” our dictatorships with a narrow focus on retention of power. When the dictatorships ended, we moved on to a narrow focus on politics for its own sake without attaching clear developmental leadership criteria to our political debating. Vision 2030 tries to address this in the political pillar which calls for issue-based, results-oriented, people-centred democratic leadership over and above accountability and transparency (the latter two we are finally getting right, it’s the first three we must now address).]
I’m glad to note that again as you’ve mentioned, there is inbuilt flexibility to refine models, targets ,goals/objectives etc as
this ship sails on since this is very important, to incorporate new ideas/realities on the ground.
[a dynamic vision is absolutely necessary]
On “Energy distribution”, if you’d allow me to go back to this, you’ve mentioned about “unbundling” it. I might not
be certain what this means, but does it indicate stripping away monopoly, or are there various distribution packages
that will need to be decentralized…? Then on the Rural electrification programme, - I will check this out, however
does it mean it’s now an independent entity that does its own electricity distribution to consumers..? If this is a
success model, then let’s liberalize the entire sector..
[Unbundling refers to the disaggregation of generation (KENGEN), transmission (KETRACO) and distribution (KPLC). KPLC previously did everything and unbundling had to happen first. Further to this, GDC (Geothermal Development Corporation) was set up to focus on geothermal energy generation and attract private sector investment that way. REA (Rural Electrification Energy) was set up to connect rural areas but the distributor of power remains KPLC. Further liberalization can now be contemplated but with extreme caution learning from the experiences of other jurisdictions as per my last email.]
Grace, it’s quite an honor on the concept paper.. I’d need some experts on the list, in this area to come on board. But
I will take up the challenge..
[Looking forward]
Harry
From: kictanet-bounces+harry=comtelsys.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+harry=comtelsys.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Grace Githaiga
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 9:01 AM
To: harry@comtelsys.co.ke
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: [kictanet] Vision 2030: ICT and Other Sectors Converged (Day 2)
Thanks Bwana Kibati for your well articulated responses. As you can see, your responses have raised further queries on energy from Brainiac and we look forward to your responses.
A great point you raise on the fact that changing our value systems must be a national collective effort if we are going to have social transformation. We can have all the infrastructure but if we do not have values, then there might not be much meaning to Kenyans.
Barrack, Solomon and Harry, you now have it from Mr. Kibati.
Harry, I do hope that you will take on the challenge to present the Vision 2030 secretariat with a concept on energy distribution. This will be a great outcome of this debate and I am sure Brainiac and other listers may want to join you.
Barrack, i think this is your opportunity to influence. Is it possible to suggest how Vision 2030 can influence national values using ICTs? Tusingojee serikali...:)
As we reflect on the responses, we also move on to Day 2.
The focus is on the three pillars of Vision 2030. The vision is grounded on three piilars and we will look at the first one which is the economic pillar.
The Economic pillar seeks to improve the prosperity of all regions of the country and all Kenyans by achieving Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate by 2012. http://www.vision2030.go.ke/index.php/pillars
The Medium Term Plan (2008-2012 identifies six targetted priority sectors namely tourism, agriculture, wholesale and retail trade, manufacturing, IT enabled services and financial services.
Over to you listers. Please feel free to still raise concerns on the vision or on Mr. Kibati's responses too.
Sasa basi wakilisheni!.
Rgds
Grace
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