Fwd: FW: KENIC - on behalf of Sammy Buruchara
** ** *From:* Sammy Buruchara [mailto:sammy@nbnet.co.ke] *Sent:* Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:40 AM *To:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions (kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke) *Subject:* KENIC**** ** ** *RE: Online discussions on Resignations of Board at the Kenya Network Information Centre (KeNIC)* Reference is made to the various online discussions regarding resignations of Board members of at the Kenya Network Information Centre (KeNIC).**** The KeNIC board and management would like to take this early opportunity to refute these claims as having no basis and without factual information.** ** Early this year, the KeNIC Board, while carrying out a mid-term review of the implementation of its Strategic plan, agreed on the need for KeNIC to carry out an Institutional Assessment to ensure that it operates in line with the international best practices and that its operations are aligned to its Strategic plan.**** A Consultant was tasked by KeNIC to carry out the Institutional Assessment and in their report, which was adopted by the KeNIC board, established a number of areas that KeNIC needed to address, to remain in business as well as to improve in its core mandate of registering dot KE domain names. The following is an highlight of the areas needing action:**** **1. **The alignment of the Board membership to the KeNIC’s Memorandum and Articles of Association. **** **2. **A review of the current Strategic Plan to align it to realistic Goals and Targets in the light of changing market conditions.**** **3. **A review of the KeNIC Stakeholders to reflect its core business. **** **4. **Development and strengthening of KeNIC’s Financial and Procurement policies, among other policies.**** **5. **Review of the management structure to reflect the revised Strategic Plan.**** KeNIC Board has diligently followed through the Consultant’s Institutional Assessment report by implementing the recommendations contained in the report with the aim of strengthening KeNIC’s operations. Inevitably, the implementation of the report is going to affect the constitution of the KeNIC board. However, the board wishes to remain intact until the AGM, after which its board membership will change, after the adoption by the AGM. In view of this, it’s important to note that those board members who have since resigned, they have done so voluntarily, and most of them have been replaced by their appointing member organizations.**** KeNIC is due to hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in August 2012 (next month) to update its stakeholders on the progress of this process, among other reports scheduled for presentation and discussion during the AGM.**** The KeNIC board and management would therefore wish to dispel any rumors of an alleged crisis in KeNIC, and to state categorically that there is no crisis at in KeNIC and that the Board and management are fully discharging their duties of ensuring KeNIC is run professionally and in line with the international best practices.**** ** ** *Sammy Buruchara* *Change Manager* ** ** -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by * KeNIC MailScanner* <http://www.kenic.or.ke/>, and is believed to be clean. Kenya Network Information Centre (KeNIC).
Thnx Sammy B. for the rejoinder.... At least we do have the two sides of the story. And now, it is up to the Listers to show up in numbers at the AGM and get the detailed aspects of both stories and hopefully come out with KENIC as the winner. In particular, I believe the Bylaws/Constitution for KENIC is up for review. Maybe Sammy could share a copy/url? Biggest problem with most Listers is that they are active online - but never get time to attend physical meetings to make the difference they yearn for. Typical, Kenyan middle-class syndrome :-) walu. --- On Thu, 7/26/12, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote: From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> Subject: [kictanet] Fwd: FW: KENIC - on behalf of Sammy Buruchara To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Thursday, July 26, 2012, 2:24 PM From: Sammy Buruchara [mailto:sammy@nbnet.co.ke] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:40 AM To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions (kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke) Subject: KENIC RE: Online discussions on Resignations of Board at the Kenya Network Information Centre (KeNIC) Reference is made to the various online discussions regarding resignations of Board members of at the Kenya Network Information Centre (KeNIC).The KeNIC board and management would like to take this early opportunity to refute these claims as having no basis and without factual information. Early this year, the KeNIC Board, while carrying out a mid-term review of the implementation of its Strategic plan, agreed on the need for KeNIC to carry out an Institutional Assessment to ensure that it operates in line with the international best practices and that its operations are aligned to its Strategic plan. A Consultant was tasked by KeNIC to carry out the Institutional Assessment and in their report, which was adopted by the KeNIC board, established a number of areas that KeNIC needed to address, to remain in business as well as to improve in its core mandate of registering dot KE domain names. The following is an highlight of the areas needing action: 1. The alignment of the Board membership to the KeNIC’s Memorandum and Articles of Association. 2. A review of the current Strategic Plan to align it to realistic Goals and Targets in the light of changing market conditions. 3. A review of the KeNIC Stakeholders to reflect its core business.4. Development and strengthening of KeNIC’s Financial and Procurement policies, among other policies. 5. Review of the management structure to reflect the revised Strategic Plan.KeNIC Board has diligently followed through the Consultant’s Institutional Assessment report by implementing the recommendations contained in the report with the aim of strengthening KeNIC’s operations. Inevitably, the implementation of the report is going to affect the constitution of the KeNIC board. However, the board wishes to remain intact until the AGM, after which its board membership will change, after the adoption by the AGM. In view of this, it’s important to note that those board members who have since resigned, they have done so voluntarily, and most of them have been replaced by their appointing member organizations. KeNIC is due to hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in August 2012 (next month) to update its stakeholders on the progress of this process, among other reports scheduled for presentation and discussion during the AGM. The KeNIC board and management would therefore wish to dispel any rumors of an alleged crisis in KeNIC, and to state categorically that there is no crisis at in KeNIC and that the Board and management are fully discharging their duties of ensuring KeNIC is run professionally and in line with the international best practices. Sammy BurucharaChange Manager -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by KeNIC MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. Kenya Network Information Centre (KeNIC). -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/jwalu%40yahoo.com The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
When anonymous messages start getting into the list, it means people are very much tired of this KENIC debacle, but they don't want their faces and identity revealed. I’m tempted to treat the anonymous message with the contempt it deserves. But I will not. Who is this msema_kweli@outlook.comand why has he opted to be a shadow? Is (s)he fearing reprisals? When a registrar is given the fiduciary responsibility to run a registry, where he has personal interest, it is always that that fiduciary responsibility will be abused. Why for example, does he want to send home the current staff? Wanjiku put it sanctity; a registrar cannot be CEO of a registry. Actually an independent auditor should go through the activities of the registry for the period that Burachara has been there as a so called "change manager" to make sure no abuse of office has taken place. That is how serious it is. Burachara wrote a long letter, that was relayed to the list by Washington, in which Burachara purported to talk on behalf of the board and I quote
"The KeNIC board and management would like to take this early opportunity to refute these claims as having no basis and without factual information."
If Burachara resigned from the board, how can he purport tot talk on it’s behalf? Has he become that powerful? What are these claims that he says *"having no basis and without factual information"* That board members have resigned because of serious disagreements? What claims are not factual? One former board member Ali Hussein wrote to this list and laid it plain and simple that there are problems at Kenic, he said
"For as long as we do not resolve the fundamental issues KeNIC will continue to languish in the doldrums. It is incumbent upon the community at large to resolve these issues and put Personalities aside. At this juncture I must disclose that the Board of KeNIC then did acknowledge that an institutional assessment needed to be done because it became clear that the board had become dysfunctional. I must acknowledge too that as a Board (at least from my opinion) we had failed the community. This report MUST be made public so that we can move forward. After all if we do not accept that we are sick how can we be cured?"
Will we sit down and continue relying on anonymous whistle blowers or will we be counted as the generation that stood up and saved the direction of our registry? Lets remember Edmund Burke's words “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." or more clearly "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" So, we are on August 10th 2012. Has anybody received a notice for the AGM as promised? On 10 August 2012 09:43, the truth <msema_kweli@outlook.com> wrote:
Lest we forget, there is more that is happening at the Registry of .ke that is hidden from the Internet community. As at the posting of the initial message of this thread, the chairlady was on her way out; she has already left.
Now, what will happen if all the current staff left at once? Does the kenic board understand the magnitude of the importance of .ke to the thousands of businesses in this country that rely on this critical resource? Imagine waking up and finding that nation.co.ke, safaricom.co.ke , standardmedia.co.ke, mocality.co.ke, google.co.ke, just to mention a few, are all down. There's such a probability. Rumour has it the current staff can't cope with Buruchara's style of management (or better way of changing things), and unrealistic board resolutions. So, who will be in charge of our domains? Talk of a player being a referee too.
Who owns kenic? Is it a few individuals? If I own a .ke domain, am I not a stakeholder of .ke? Food for thought
On 26 July 2012 14:24, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
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*From:* Sammy Buruchara [mailto:sammy@nbnet.co.ke] *Sent:* Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:40 AM *To:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions (kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke) *Subject:* KENIC****
** **
*RE: Online discussions on Resignations of Board at the Kenya Network Information Centre (KeNIC)*
Reference is made to the various online discussions regarding resignations of Board members of at the Kenya Network Information Centre (KeNIC).****
The KeNIC board and management would like to take this early opportunity to refute these claims as having no basis and without factual information. ****
Early this year, the KeNIC Board, while carrying out a mid-term review of the implementation of its Strategic plan, agreed on the need for KeNIC to carry out an Institutional Assessment to ensure that it operates in line with the international best practices and that its operations are aligned to its Strategic plan.****
A Consultant was tasked by KeNIC to carry out the Institutional Assessment and in their report, which was adopted by the KeNIC board, established a number of areas that KeNIC needed to address, to remain in business as well as to improve in its core mandate of registering dot KE domain names. The following is an highlight of the areas needing action:****
**1. **The alignment of the Board membership to the KeNIC’s Memorandum and Articles of Association. ****
**2. **A review of the current Strategic Plan to align it to realistic Goals and Targets in the light of changing market conditions.*** *
**3. **A review of the KeNIC Stakeholders to reflect its core business.****
**4. **Development and strengthening of KeNIC’s Financial and Procurement policies, among other policies.****
**5. **Review of the management structure to reflect the revised Strategic Plan.****
KeNIC Board has diligently followed through the Consultant’s Institutional Assessment report by implementing the recommendations contained in the report with the aim of strengthening KeNIC’s operations. Inevitably, the implementation of the report is going to affect the constitution of the KeNIC board. However, the board wishes to remain intact until the AGM, after which its board membership will change, after the adoption by the AGM. In view of this, it’s important to note that those board members who have since resigned, they have done so voluntarily, and most of them have been replaced by their appointing member organizations.****
KeNIC is due to hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in August 2012 (next month) to update its stakeholders on the progress of this process, among other reports scheduled for presentation and discussion during the AGM.*** *
The KeNIC board and management would therefore wish to dispel any rumors of an alleged crisis in KeNIC, and to state categorically that there is no crisis at in KeNIC and that the Board and management are fully discharging their duties of ensuring KeNIC is run professionally and in line with the international best practices.****
** **
*Sammy Buruchara*
*Change Manager*
** **
-- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by * KeNIC MailScanner* <http://www.kenic.or.ke/>, and is believed to be clean.
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Just for the record, the msema_kweli (aka Aki Weke) joined the list yesterday. I responded (directly to him) to his anonymous post, thus: <quote> @Msema_Kweli, It is not in the style of this forum (KICTANet) to spread rumors. Worse still, you've decided to completely mask your identity, so that no one is able to question/interrogate your credibility. I remember approving your list membership just yesterday. Let's discuss true facts when you come round next time. For now I will cease your list membership. If you have any reservations about such action, please let me know before noon today. </quote> He did not respond and so I believe we should forget about him - for now. On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com> wrote:
When anonymous messages start getting into the list, it means people are very much tired of this KENIC debacle, but they don't want their faces and identity revealed. I’m tempted to treat the anonymous message with the contempt it deserves. But I will not. Who is this msema_kweli@outlook.comand why has he opted to be a shadow? Is (s)he fearing reprisals?
When a registrar is given the fiduciary responsibility to run a registry, where he has personal interest, it is always that that fiduciary responsibility will be abused. Why for example, does he want to send home the current staff? Wanjiku put it sanctity; a registrar cannot be CEO of a registry. Actually an independent auditor should go through the activities of the registry for the period that Burachara has been there as a so called "change manager" to make sure no abuse of office has taken place. That is how serious it is.
Burachara wrote a long letter, that was relayed to the list by Washington, in which Burachara purported to talk on behalf of the board and I quote
"The KeNIC board and management would like to take this early opportunity to refute these claims as having no basis and without factual information."
If Burachara resigned from the board, how can he purport tot talk on it’s behalf? Has he become that powerful? What are these claims that he says *"having no basis and without factual information"* That board members have resigned because of serious disagreements? What claims are not factual? One former board member Ali Hussein wrote to this list and laid it plain and simple that there are problems at Kenic, he said
"For as long as we do not resolve the fundamental issues KeNIC will continue to languish in the doldrums. It is incumbent upon the community at large to resolve these issues and put Personalities aside. At this juncture I must disclose that the Board of KeNIC then did acknowledge that an institutional assessment needed to be done because it became clear that the board had become dysfunctional. I must acknowledge too that as a Board (at least from my opinion) we had failed the community. This report MUST be made public so that we can move forward. After all if we do not accept that we are sick how can we be cured?"
Will we sit down and continue relying on anonymous whistle blowers or will we be counted as the generation that stood up and saved the direction of our registry? Lets remember Edmund Burke's words “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." or more clearly "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"
So, we are on August 10th 2012. Has anybody received a notice for the AGM as promised?
On 10 August 2012 09:43, the truth <msema_kweli@outlook.com> wrote:
Lest we forget, there is more that is happening at the Registry of .ke that is hidden from the Internet community. As at the posting of the initial message of this thread, the chairlady was on her way out; she has already left.
Now, what will happen if all the current staff left at once? Does the kenic board understand the magnitude of the importance of .ke to the thousands of businesses in this country that rely on this critical resource? Imagine waking up and finding that nation.co.ke, safaricom.co.ke, standardmedia.co.ke, mocality.co.ke, google.co.ke, just to mention a few, are all down. There's such a probability. Rumour has it the current staff can't cope with Buruchara's style of management (or better way of changing things), and unrealistic board resolutions. So, who will be in charge of our domains? Talk of a player being a referee too.
Who owns kenic? Is it a few individuals? If I own a .ke domain, am I not a stakeholder of .ke? Food for thought
On 26 July 2012 14:24, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
** **
*From:* Sammy Buruchara [mailto:sammy@nbnet.co.ke] *Sent:* Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:40 AM *To:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions (kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke) *Subject:* KENIC****
** **
*RE: Online discussions on Resignations of Board at the Kenya Network Information Centre (KeNIC)*
Reference is made to the various online discussions regarding resignations of Board members of at the Kenya Network Information Centre (KeNIC).****
The KeNIC board and management would like to take this early opportunity to refute these claims as having no basis and without factual information.****
Early this year, the KeNIC Board, while carrying out a mid-term review of the implementation of its Strategic plan, agreed on the need for KeNIC to carry out an Institutional Assessment to ensure that it operates in line with the international best practices and that its operations are aligned to its Strategic plan.****
A Consultant was tasked by KeNIC to carry out the Institutional Assessment and in their report, which was adopted by the KeNIC board, established a number of areas that KeNIC needed to address, to remain in business as well as to improve in its core mandate of registering dot KE domain names. The following is an highlight of the areas needing action:* ***
**1. **The alignment of the Board membership to the KeNIC’s Memorandum and Articles of Association. ****
**2. **A review of the current Strategic Plan to align it to realistic Goals and Targets in the light of changing market conditions.** **
**3. **A review of the KeNIC Stakeholders to reflect its core business.****
**4. **Development and strengthening of KeNIC’s Financial and Procurement policies, among other policies.****
**5. **Review of the management structure to reflect the revised Strategic Plan.****
KeNIC Board has diligently followed through the Consultant’s Institutional Assessment report by implementing the recommendations contained in the report with the aim of strengthening KeNIC’s operations. Inevitably, the implementation of the report is going to affect the constitution of the KeNIC board. However, the board wishes to remain intact until the AGM, after which its board membership will change, after the adoption by the AGM. In view of this, it’s important to note that those board members who have since resigned, they have done so voluntarily, and most of them have been replaced by their appointing member organizations. ****
KeNIC is due to hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in August 2012 (next month) to update its stakeholders on the progress of this process, among other reports scheduled for presentation and discussion during the AGM.****
The KeNIC board and management would therefore wish to dispel any rumors of an alleged crisis in KeNIC, and to state categorically that there is no crisis at in KeNIC and that the Board and management are fully discharging their duties of ensuring KeNIC is run professionally and in line with the international best practices.****
** **
*Sammy Buruchara*
*Change Manager*
** **
-- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by * KeNIC MailScanner* <http://www.kenic.or.ke/>, and is believed to be clean.
Kenya Network Information Centre (KeNIC).
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