Noted...I think this will generate and interesting debate during the Stakeholders' Forum. Nyaki ________________________________ From: Vitalis Olunga <[email protected]> To: Catherine Adeya <[email protected]> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, February 23, 2011 3:47:03 PM Subject: Re: [kictanet] Day 4: Consitutions and Appointment of Commissioners to the Commission To try to be all inclusive to address the convergence in the sector: I suggest knowledge, skills and experience in Information Communications and Technologies (ICTs). ________________________________ From: Catherine Adeya <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, February 23, 2011 2:13:06 PM Subject: Re: [kictanet] Day 4: Consitutions and Appointment of Commissioners to the Commission A worthwhile addition...I must add too. Thanks Stanely ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, February 23, 2011 11:39:18 AM Subject: Re: [kictanet] Day 4: Consitutions and Appointment of Commissioners to the Commission I strongly support the inclusion of Information Technology as one of the key experience fields /professions from which Commissioners may be selected. S.K.Murage Sent from my HTC ----- Reply message ----- From: "Walubengo J" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Feb 23, 2011 11:06 Subject: [kictanet] Day 4: Consitutions and Appointment of Commissioners to the Commission To: <[email protected]> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <[email protected]> On appointments of Commissioners, it says on Pg5, that they should: (ii) possess suitable qualifications, expertise and experience in the fields of, amongst others, broadcasting telecommunications , law, , media, and economics, or any other related expertise or qualifications. I know we cannot fit in ALL the relevant professions but methinks leaving out IT (Information Technology) would be quit a loud gap considering this commission is supposed a converged commission that put together Media, IT and Telecoms. walu. --- On Thu, 2/17/11, Catherine Adeya <[email protected]> wrote: From: Catherine Adeya <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Day 4: Consitutions and Appointment of Commissioners to the Commission To: "Walubengo J" <[email protected]> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, February 17, 2011, 1:44 PM Thanks Walu, I will try and respond to what I can and hope others with more expertise can chip in. Are you suggesting that WHO gets appointed is not as critical as the representative structure of the Commissioners? I do not want to deliberate more on that without taking sides as I also have an opinion and may understand where you are coming from. Yes this new Draft Bill does outline the representative structure of the persons to be appointed to the Commission in Section 5(3) b. ii Persons who....."possess suitable qualifications, expertise and experience in the fields of, amongst others, broadcasting, telecommunications, law, media and economics, or any other related expertise or qualifications" (I have ignored some of the obvious editorial errors which are mostly punctuation and an Editor can sweep through this). We will discuss terms of Office tomorrow but suffice it to say that the Chairperson will hold Office for 5 years and a Commissioner for 2 terms. Lets revisit this kesho. [AN ASIDE: Walu, you are my friend...and I know you like reading....si you read this Bill please...it is in the Ministry website http://www.information.go.ke/index2.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=19&Itemid=37 and it will answer a number of your queries. It is not very long:-)))]. Best Regards, Nyaki From: Walubengo J <[email protected]> To: Catherine Adeya <[email protected]> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, February 17, 2011 11:08:57 AM Subject: Re: [kictanet] Day 4: Consitutions and Appointment of Commissioners to the Commission Nyaki,