PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: Call for Input on Draft Kica Amendment Bill 2023
Dear Listers, The Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy is inviting views from the public on the Kenya Information Communication Amendment Bill 2023. (Attached). KICTANet will make an input into the proposed amendments. As a result, in the spirit of multistakeholderism, if you are interested to be a part of the lean team, kindly notify me via mail. At the same time, you can also share your comments as a reply to this email which we shall compile. The ministry's *deadline is not later than 8th May 2023. * *Kind Regards,* *David Indeje* *KICTANet Communications *_____________________________________ +254 (0) 711 385 945 | +254 (0) 734 024 856 KICTANet portals KICTANet.or.ke <https://kictanet.or.ke/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/kictanet> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/18428106/admin/> | Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/KICTANet/>
Thanks for this. Converted to plain text asciidoc format for easier reading on energy and price efficient electronic devices. Initial comment is that given the rise of the internet and online streaming platforms, it seems almost anybody can broadcast either into or out of Kenya. As such, the role of traditional airwave broadcast media will decline as internet connectivity improves. Some of the amendments therefore seem, backward and not forward looking. Might there be interest in using an online forum to solicit feedback? In particular, one can make it easy for people to read and comment on the full proposed act, not just the amended clauses. The approach of individual groups sending comments by email to the ministry does scale well, allow for much exchange of ideas or allow the general public to view and comment on other submissions. Forum software such as Decidim (https://decidim.org/), is much more effective for this. Could even write/deploy a simple PHP based forum to allow for this exchange. Maybe county governments could also use such solutions to enable more inclusive efficient citizen driven governance. On 4/18/23 12:18, David Indeje via KICTANet wrote:
Dear Listers, I appreciate all those who have expressed an interest to be part of the team to have their input to the Kenya Information Communication Amendment Bill 2023. Kindly if you want to be part of the team, *MONDAY is the deadline*. On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 12:18 PM David Indeje <dindeje@kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
I am interested David. Bes On Tue, 18 Apr 2023, 12:20 pm David Indeje via KICTANet, < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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Barrack Otieno -
Benson Muite -
David Indeje