One ICT Agency to formulate policy and promote (open) standards is in order.

However, every major government function/domain (e.g. lands.go.ke, transport.go.ke, water.go.ke, energy.go.ke, judciary.go.ke, nairobi.go.ke) must have its own CIO.

Today, who is accountable for the lack of electronic updates/communications from these domains?

Within these domains, generic e-mail addresses such as "help@police.go.ke" would not be too bad if we could get responses from them.

Even better is if we could have specific individual names associated with domains, even though this may be viewed as costly from a licensing point of view.


On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
I have always been a supporter of centralised information infrastructure for government services. 

Given our historical nature where ICT Board, GITS, eGovernment and each ministry and agency with its own mini-ICT budget, it has always been impossible to achieve a unified ICT objective within govt.

Imagine being the CIO of Safaricom but having Marketing, Engineering, |HR and other departments buying and running their own ICT systems that have no relation to each other = disaster.  Think Lands, Immigration, AG, Police with their own un-connected ICT budgets then you will begin to see the need to harmonize at some level - as long as you dont kill the speed at which some ministries/ depts may wish to move.

walu.

From: S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com>
To: jwalu@yahoo.com
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Merger of Agencies to Streamline ICT in Kenya

On this note, where are we in creating legislation establishing CIO postions/roles in State Departments and Corporations?


On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:34 AM, waudo siganga <emailsignet@mailcan.com> wrote:

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