Good morning listers,
The senate has established an ad-hoc committee that will oversee the responses of the national and county governments to the covid 19 pandemic. The committee has issued a call for submissions on the following themes.
- Health - includes community health, testing centers, mental health, role and engagement of county governments.
BO : Instead of re-inventing the wheel why don't we coalesce around efforts such as COVID-19.Ke. You cannot manage what you don't know, we need to know areas that have been hit the hardest to ensure correct measures are taking to avoid any further spread. The Ushahidi platform on the above link can help us to monitor and control the spread of COVID-19.
- Economic and Finance Issues - Includes macro economic effects, measures that the government can take to cushion SMEs and borrowers.
BO: The government has an elaborate structure from the County Commissioners to Chiefs to Chairman of Nyumba Kumi. We can encourage sharing for information through Whatsapp to identify needy cases, those that might need food and other humanitarian support to survive. I propose that Whatsapp be made totally free on all Networks to facilitate communication.
- Social, Public order and Human Rights - Includes protection of vulnerable groups, and enforcement of curfews
BO : We need to combine Government and Community Structures to continuously inform, educate and possibly find ways of entertaining the Community in ways that will result in behavior change. Over communication is the key word.
- Access to Food, Water and other basic commodities Includes measures to support continuous production and supply of essential services at affordable prices. Food, water etc
BO : encourage citizens to utilise available resources carefully. Encourage citizens to take care of each other within local communities and share what they have while maintaining the guidelines that will avoid the spread of the pandemic.
- Support services and cross cutting issues - Includes awareness creation, how to combat stigmatization and network access across the country.
BO . As indicated above let us coalesce around initiatives such as covid-19.ke, the hrose has already bolted, we cannot start new initiatives , let us bolster existing initiatives.
Listers, what are your views? How can ICTs help in these 5 areas? and how can the government improve its communication and network connectivity across the country?
Please find attached the call for public participation with more details. The deadline for submission is 8th April.
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Best regards.
Liz.
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