Yawe, on a lighter note, are you ready for vetting J? Edwin From: kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Dennis Kipruto Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 8:40 AM To: Edwin Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General - Aluta Continua Robert, The general manager -financial services for postal services is on on KBC. Talking about good service to customers and making profits(not as big as the banks) On Automation - they have automated 396 post offices in Kenya . Still a long way to go. Rgds, Dennis Sent from my iPhone powered by Orange On Jun 29, 2011, at 7:58 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: Hi Listers, My journey to Postal Corporation as Post Master General is still alive and kicking, as we get closer to the elections I believe the chances shall improve. As I await the appointment I continue to regularly visit various post offices so as to keep my finger on the pulse of the organisation. Most of my visits reveal the continuing decay and at times wonder if the organisation can really be salvaged. Yesterday on visited the City Square Post Office and was shocked to find that they still have posters hanging advertising the Zaine service. I have had of snail mail but it has never been brought home so effectively. http://quadrantshift.co.ke/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Photo_062811_001.jpg Such experiences can be most heart wrenching but on my way out I saw a poster/model that shows the spread of Postal's network and my drive and determination to become the Post Master General was rekindled. http://quadrantshift.co.ke/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Photo_062811_002.jpg Comrades, e-commerce is not going anywhere in this country without the total and absolute participation of Postal Corporation and for this reason I shall continue my struggle, aluta continua and the giant shall again arise to the challenge. Regards PS. I have finally come to appreciate the camera on my phone. Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/rutodenis%40gmail.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.

1: Why do you think you are more qualified than the existing management? The postal business worldwide has changed radically over the past couple of years and change I have followed closely while looking at parallels with PCK yet the current management are still stuck in the 16th century. As a management their emphasis is on none core expenditure and supporting systems that no longer add value who would have been better provided if outsourced. This is the typical approach of a TKK culture where many look to benefit themselves and their cronies through projects that are difficult to quantity after they are complete. I do not want to make it seem like the management is incompetent, there are brilliant minds within PCK but without the right leadership and support they will get frustrated and most likely decide to join the bandwagon of the many. Turning around a large archaic organisation requires more than a dream or a vision, it requires the right team with the right attitude and a shared vision. Many have written off PCK and are hovering around like Vultures waiting for its eminent death so as to soar down and devour the carcass. The path to profitability for PCK has already been documented through various fora and more recently the free study by IBM is still gathering dust on the various shelves all because the recipients only see a letter delivery service when they look at the corporation. 2: Other than existing infrastructure that Posta has, have you also looked at the debts of the corporation to see the worthiness of the business? With the current level of resources Posta has it can comfortably meet its debt and other obligations such as pension arrears through the productive application of those resources. Selling off the assets, as seems to be the direction currently being pursued by the board of directors and sanctioned by the government, will not resolve the long term issues of the corporation but most likely hasten its demise. I hope that the sale of its land to Airtel & IBM will be stopped as to me a PPP or DBOT would be a more sustainable approach. Unfortunately I suspect that the horses have bolted in that one and I would need to look into other avenues. 3: Why don't you create a new Posta? Raise capital and use a network of existing businesses in the country. Posta was formed by an act of parliament i the same way as was done with other similar entities around the world for the main reason that it has a social responsibility of making sure that we do not create a divide as continues to happen in other areas such as Internet access. http://www.posta.co.ke/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=71&Itemid=169 Creating a new Posta under a different dispensation will mean that it shall not enjoy the current preferential tariffs that are only available to national postal organisations including USPS. Immediately we form a profit only driven organisation the current divide that exists in the current will become extremely wide. USPS exists in the US for specifically the same reason that PCK does, to level the playing field. Imagine if we charged for mail delivery based on distance covered within the country then you will end up disenfranchising over 90% of the population. I would strengthen the EMS service, which would more than comfortably compete with all other courier services, and use it to generate the additional revenue required while keeping the standard postal service at a flat rate as required by the UPU. The assets that are in the custody of PCK are public resources and letting it die is as bad condoning the theft of free primary education funds. Your parents and their parents gave to build the organisation why would we want to let all that go to nowt just to punish the current generation to fund a new entity either directly through investing or indirectly through high charges? In closing, your suggestion to set-up a new organisation boils down to what is referred to as "implementing personal solutions to public problems". I hope I have answered your questions exhaustively and look forward to your support in giving PCK new and lasting lease of life. Regards Am sure others can add more questions these are to start? On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:58 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: Hi Listers,

My journey to Postal Corporation as Post Master General is still alive and kicking, as we get closer to the elections I believe the chances shall improve.

As I await the appointment I continue to regularly visit various post offices so as to keep my finger on the pulse of the organisation. Most of my visits reveal the continuing decay and at times wonder if the organisation can really be salvaged.

Yesterday on visited the City Square Post Office and was shocked to find that they still have posters hanging advertising the Zaine service. I have had of snail mail but it has never been brought home so effectively.

http://quadrantshift.co.ke/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Photo_062811_001.jpg

Such experiences can be most heart wrenching but on my way out I saw a poster/model that shows the spread of Postal's network and my drive and determination to become the Post Master General was rekindled.

http://quadrantshift.co.ke/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Photo_062811_002.jpg

Comrades, e-commerce is not going anywhere in this country without the total and absolute participation of Postal Corporation and for this reason I shall continue my struggle, aluta continua and the giant shall again arise to the challenge.

Regards

PS. I have finally come to appreciate the camera on my phone. Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya

Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696

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Yawe, I have a few questions for you: 1. How will you increase the corporation’s revenues (i.e. what innovations ill you bring on-board to revive the sleeping giant), in the backdrop of its main products such as snail mail in sharp decline over the years as a result of modern IC technologies? 2. Do you see any conflict of interest in your role at Posta as a result of your past, current or future engagements with the corporation/elsewhere? 3. What are your specific qualifications and experience that make you the best candidate for the role of PMG? 4. With a bloated/redundant workforce at Posta; how will you transform the organization to a lean and productive enterprise without causing “political” and sometimes ethnic uproar that comes with down/right sizing such an organization? Best Regards, Edwin M Onchari 0773711600 0720755951 eonchari@lynxbits.com From: kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Odhiambo Washington Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 10:54 AM To: Edwin Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General - Aluta Continua On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 09:00, Joseph Mucheru <mucheru@google.com> wrote: Hi Robert, Thanks for sharing your ambitions. Am curious and if you don't mind (since you have made your intentions public) I would like to start preparing public interview questions before your appointment. 1: Why do you think you are more qualified than the existing management? 2: Other than existing infrastructure that Posta has, have you also looked at the debts of the corporation to see the worthiness of the business? 3: Why don't you create a new Posta? Raise capital and use a network of existing businesses in the country. Am sure others can add more questions these are to start? Hello Mucheru, I am sure Yawe is well prepared to answer these, but what you have done is to turn the wheel back some months:) Yawe already pitched his reasons to support his quest some months back and those reasons are in the archives of this list. I am still very convinced that he can pull it off, given his pitch, which is perhaps what you need to start by reading. What we (and him) want is a PCK that works, is profitable and is the pride of Kenyans, much like the UK Postal system, or any other "functional" one you can refer to elsewhere. Don't we all know why Posta is the way it is? We just want the Posta Posta with Robert Yawe at the help, to turn it round. There is no point creating a new one. Just changing the business model, the employee mindset, coupled with sound management practices should be enough, or so I think. PS: Robert, on a positive note, I recently decided to bite the bullet and sent my 1.7kg parcel to Australia using EMS Kenya. It cost me KES 6,300 (as opposed to KES 14,000 which DHL wanted to charge) and guess what? It arrived in Oz in a record 4-working days!! While they still don't have the Bumba boxes, it would appear that they are capable of delivering - cheaply than the likes of DHL. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

Bobby, 1. How do you intend to take advantage of the new county system and regional opportunities (East Central and Southern Africa) 2. What steps will you take to transform Post Offices in far flung places into profitable centres? 3. How will you encourage the public to troupe back to the Post Offices? On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:30 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

I have a few questions for you:

1. How will you increase the corporation’s revenues (i.e. what innovations ill you bring on-board to revive the sleeping giant), in the backdrop of its main products such as snail mail in sharp decline over the years as a result of modern IC technologies?

- To increase revenue I will develop the parcel service mainly for local delivery an area that will receive a lot of resistance from the new entrants in the industry who I believe are working in the background to keep PCK asleep.

I would like to give you a detailed reply on the ICT innovations I would want to implement but the current board and management could just pick on it and run thus loosing my strategic advantage.

2. Do you see any conflict of interest in your role at Posta as a result of your past, current or future engagements with the corporation/elsewhere?

I see no conflict of interest

3. What are your specific qualifications and experience that make you the best candidate for the role of PMG?

This question was answered before, this question if what has kept PCK where it is today as there is yet to be an institution which can train you on how to revive the organisation. Dr. James Mwangi would never have seen the light of day during the recruitment of the MD of KCB yet he runs a more profitable organisation despite the lack of "specific qualifications".

4. With a bloated/redundant workforce at Posta; how will you transform the organization to a lean and productive enterprise without causing “political” and sometimes ethnic uproar that comes with down/right sizing such an organization?

PCK is understaffed for the direction I plan to take the organisation, a workforce is only deemed to be bloated when the organisation is unable to profitably utilise them.

Orange has reduced the staff count from 21,000 to 1,500 finally yet there is no corresponding change in the bottom line. The total wage bill for PCKs 4,500 employees is less than that of some organisations with less than 150 employees, if anything I will be looking at increasing the wage bill not reducing it especially at the bottom of the organisation as a way to increase moral and reduce the anxiety of lay-offs

We need to be weary of the culture of reducing staff count as a fad and look at making productive use of the staff.

Regards

Best Regards,

Edwin M Onchari

0773711600

0720755951

eonchari@lynxbits.com

*From:* kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke[mailto: kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke] *On Behalf Of *Odhiambo Washington *Sent:* Thursday, June 30, 2011 10:54 AM *To:* Edwin *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General - Aluta Continua

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 09:00, Joseph Mucheru <mucheru@google.com> wrote:

Hi Robert,

Thanks for sharing your ambitions. Am curious and if you don't mind (since you have made your intentions public) I would like to start preparing public interview questions before your appointment.

1: Why do you think you are more qualified than the existing management?

2: Other than existing infrastructure that Posta has, have you also looked at the debts of the corporation to see the worthiness of the business?

3: Why don't you create a new Posta? Raise capital and use a network of existing businesses in the country.

Am sure others can add more questions these are to start?

Hello Mucheru,

I am sure Yawe is well prepared to answer these, but what you have done is to turn the wheel back some months:)

Yawe already pitched his reasons to support his quest some months back and those reasons are in the archives of this list. I am still very convinced that he can pull it off, given his pitch, which is perhaps what you need to start by reading.

What we (and him) want is a PCK that works, is profitable and is the pride of Kenyans, much like the UK Postal system, or any other "functional" one you can refer to elsewhere.

Don't we all know why Posta is the way it is? We just want the Posta Posta with Robert Yawe at the help, to turn it round. There is no point creating a new one. Just changing the business model, the employee mindset, coupled with sound management practices should be enough, or so I think.

PS: Robert, on a positive note, I recently decided to bite the bullet and sent my 1.7kg parcel to Australia using EMS Kenya. It cost me KES 6,300 (as opposed to KES 14,000 which DHL wanted to charge) and guess what? It arrived in Oz in a record 4-working days!!

While they still don't have the Bumba boxes, it would appear that they are capable of delivering - cheaply than the likes of DHL.

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Sounds good, i like your strategy, Robert. Thanks On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 10:06 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Bobby,

1. How do you intend to take advantage of the new county system and regional opportunities (East Central and Southern Africa)

The new county system will provide a new impetus to the need for post offices as a central location for accessing and disseminating information to the county citizens. Applications for passports, driving licenses and the like will be decentralised to the counties who would then need a cost effective way to receive and send out the documents.

With the registered mail service sensitive information can be safely delivered thus reducing the opportunities for corruption and lack of accountability. On Tuesday PS Angote was complaining about the thousands of title deeds lying uncollected at Arthi House, a situation that has arisen by a lack of clear procedures for delivery of the documents.

All that the Ministry needs to do is send out all completed documents to the provided postal address, this also helps to confirm the address to which the land rent demand notes will be sent to, the registrar of motor vehicles has always sent log books through the postal system why not the titles.

However much you would like to convince ourself that a title deed is worth more than a car please note that a lot of land that is transacted in the country costs less than 500,000/- so if we can entrust the postal service with a log book for a car worth 15 million what is a title deed for a plot worth 150,000/-.

PCK still remains one of the only ways to get mail and parcels to the hinterland of the region from Mandera to Mbeya and Arua to Lindi all at a fraction of the price of the next best.

1. What steps will you take to transform Post Offices in far flung places into profitable centres?

When you are running a multi-locational organisation you must approach profitability in a holistic manner and not at individual locations. Such errors in reducing your profit calculations to branch level without reconciling it to the whole organisation have been made with large organisations like Barclay's Bank who in the heydays of branched banking went on a spree of shutting down unprofitable branches around the country.

Someone had taken a report showing profitability by branch and proceeded to close any branch that was not showing a profit. Their error in judgement was only realised when someone noticed that closing of a branch in Meru resulted in a drop in profitability at the Queensway Branch. What the analyst had not realised was that customers had accounts in both branches and would then bank the money in Nairobi then transfer it to the Meru Branch so as not to need to drive from Nairobi to Meru with cash.

The revenue for the transfer from Nairobi to Meru was realised and booked in the originating branch therefore giving the indication that one branch was more profitable than the other yet what they had was a symbiotic relationship.

I would not want to make the same mistake with PCK as I am clear of the relationship between all branches in making sure that the entire organisation remains profitable. The confidence you get when you send medicine to a parent in your far flung region using PCK will strengthen your confidence when sending a less sensitive item within the city resulting in increased loyalty.

1. How will you encourage the public to troupe back to the Post Offices?

The public never left just a few of us who believe that the entire world moved electronic, even as we post the postal service in the most developed countries still continue to operate profitably yet they have technology penetrations higher than in Kenya.

We must not forget that even DHL continues to grow in leaps and bounds making snail mail deliveries, if email and SMS are instant then anything that takes longer than either of those services can be deemed slow. Not all information can be delivered electronically in 90% of cases a physical item will need to be delivered even though the initial transaction was electronic.

PCK is the missing link in the supply chain for e-commerce, I will get you back to the post office but not necessarily physically as the final delivery will most likely be to your door. Through PCK I shall level the divide that currently exists and continues to widen between you in Nairobi and a student in Lokitaung, the student at Nairobi University with access to multiple bookshops and libraries to one in Maseno with access to a single overpriced and understocked bookshop.

Regards

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:30 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

...

I have a few questions for you:

1. How will you increase the corporation’s revenues (i.e. what innovations ill you bring on-board to revive the sleeping giant), in the backdrop of its main products such as snail mail in sharp decline over the years as a result of modern IC technologies?

- To increase revenue I will develop the parcel service mainly for local delivery an area that will receive a lot of resistance from the new entrants in the industry who I believe are working in the background to keep PCK asleep.

I would like to give you a detailed reply on the ICT innovations I would want to implement but the current board and management could just pick on it and run thus loosing my strategic advantage.

2. Do you see any conflict of interest in your role at Posta as a result of your past, current or future engagements with the corporation/elsewhere?

I see no conflict of interest

3. What are your specific qualifications and experience that make you the best candidate for the role of PMG?

This question was answered before, this question if what has kept PCK where it is today as there is yet to be an institution which can train you on how to revive the organisation. Dr. James Mwangi would never have seen the light of day during the recruitment of the MD of KCB yet he runs a more profitable organisation despite the lack of "specific qualifications".

4. With a bloated/redundant workforce at Posta; how will you transform the organization to a lean and productive enterprise without causing “political” and sometimes ethnic uproar that comes with down/right sizing such an organization?

PCK is understaffed for the direction I plan to take the organisation, a workforce is only deemed to be bloated when the organisation is unable to profitably utilise them.

Orange has reduced the staff count from 21,000 to 1,500 finally yet there is no corresponding change in the bottom line. The total wage bill for PCKs 4,500 employees is less than that of some organisations with less than 150 employees, if anything I will be looking at increasing the wage bill not reducing it especially at the bottom of the organisation as a way to increase moral and reduce the anxiety of lay-offs

We need to be weary of the culture of reducing staff count as a fad and look at making productive use of the staff.

Regards

Best Regards,

Edwin M Onchari

0773711600

0720755951

eonchari@lynxbits.com

*From:* kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke[mailto: kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke] *On Behalf Of *Odhiambo Washington *Sent:* Thursday, June 30, 2011 10:54 AM *To:* Edwin *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General - Aluta Continua

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 09:00, Joseph Mucheru <mucheru@google.com> wrote:

Hi Robert,

Thanks for sharing your ambitions. Am curious and if you don't mind (since you have made your intentions public) I would like to start preparing public interview questions before your appointment.

1: Why do you think you are more qualified than the existing management?

2: Other than existing infrastructure that Posta has, have you also looked at the debts of the corporation to see the worthiness of the business?

3: Why don't you create a new Posta? Raise capital and use a network of existing businesses in the country.

Am sure others can add more questions these are to start?

Hello Mucheru,

I am sure Yawe is well prepared to answer these, but what you have done is to turn the wheel back some months:)

Yawe already pitched his reasons to support his quest some months back and those reasons are in the archives of this list. I am still very convinced that he can pull it off, given his pitch, which is perhaps what you need to start by reading.

What we (and him) want is a PCK that works, is profitable and is the pride of Kenyans, much like the UK Postal system, or any other "functional" one you can refer to elsewhere.

Don't we all know why Posta is the way it is? We just want the Posta Posta with Robert Yawe at the help, to turn it round. There is no point creating a new one. Just changing the business model, the employee mindset, coupled with sound management practices should be enough, or so I think.

PS: Robert, on a positive note, I recently decided to bite the bullet and sent my 1.7kg parcel to Australia using EMS Kenya. It cost me KES 6,300 (as opposed to KES 14,000 which DHL wanted to charge) and guess what? It arrived in Oz in a record 4-working days!!

While they still don't have the Bumba boxes, it would appear that they are capable of delivering - cheaply than the likes of DHL.

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I support Bwana Yawes candidature for PMG. Its good that Posta is now working with KCB, they should do that deal with all banks that want the agency model and add Mpesa etc etc They are everywhere and can be used as such Most importantly, for where Kenya is going in terms of eCommerce, Posta is the best placed to provide countrywide logistics and supply chain... From Yaya Center to Misikhu ... Growing up, we used to be sent to Nairobi to buy TV's, Tractor Spares etc etc. Fertilizer is still much cheaper in Mombasa than in Kitale. Today, maize is available in Bungoma ... People are starving on Ukambani... An IT enabled Posta can fix this. When buying tractor spares in Kitale, the shopkeeper always calls Nairobi, gets a price and adds a 60pct markup ... Ecommerce fixes this, one price plus shipping and handling One change though. As Posta changes leadership, they should hire a kick ass IT Team ... Programmers, designers etc etc so that they can build from the ground up ... I see too many IBMs and Accentures doing work that can be done by Kenyans ... At ridiculous prices ... Robert, if all else fails, we should look at Joe Mucheru's suggestion... Start a logistics company ... From the ground up.... Thanks On 7/7/11, Francis Hook <francis.hook@gmail.com> wrote:

If I may chime in a little late I agree with Robert's assertion that PCK could and should position itself in supply chain and logistics. Indeed many OEM's (whether for vehicles, computers, etc) have outsourced their warehousing and distribution (of goods, parts, spares) to players like DHL, Fedex on a very grand scale. With a decent SCM in place, coupled with some fleet and asset management, IF underpinned by second to none customer service, supply chain and logistics could very well be a good lifeline for PCK.

Lets remember that not everything that PCK is licenced to do can go electronic :-)

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On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 08:38, Crystal Watley Kigoni < crystal@voicesofafrica.org> wrote:

And when you become PMG, Yawe please change how customs deals with packages and the corruption there. I asked people from the States to stop sending packages for myself and the NGO because even though they were NOT for resale we were being charged up to 50 percent of an imaginary retail value (usually the highest price to be found on the internet). It became more expensive for me to clear items than it was

@Crystal, The next stop for the big changes after Yawe become PMG would be Customs/KRA. The outfit is so draconian so much that you'd think you are an alien from outer space when you've got to deal with them. They are so secretive about the way they conduct themselves, like using threats to create fear in you, and push you into a corner. Their ultimate aim is to get you to grease their hands -- somehow. KRA/Customs MUST be reformed to become transparent to the citizens. They must be clear on the tax schedule (I mean a list detailing the categories of items and the tax levied on them), which should be published for public scrutiny. This idea of googling prices should never arise. There are times you find a Customs officer trying to force you to believe that a CCTV camera is a camcorder! KRA/Customs must also respect the citizens. They so far behave like the Police, who always think (mistakenly) that they are God, forgetting who their employer is. Maybe our "PMG" should also handle the Customs docket! -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

Then of course are the opportunities created by agency banking, not only for KCB as currently being deployed, but PCK could easily be the bank with everybank within.. more or less like pesapoint.. On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:18 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Hi Listers,

After the mention of IBM I searched online for the report and found it on the KICT website http://www.ict.go.ke/IBMTalentStudy/Postal%20Corporation%20of%20Kenya%20Stra...

Please read the report and give your comments and observations. The report makes interest reading and confirms that PCK is still viable, unfortunately they come short of saying that the problem stems from the top and instead concentrate on line management.

It is also unfortunate that if I asked to be given access to a government entity like was given to IBM, my request would be definitely be denied.

This is very telling of the attitude that we have of our own capabilities, with a couple of you experts out there we would have produced a more comprehensive report of what ails PCK and offer more home grown solutions.

Regards

Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya

Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696

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*To:* robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> *Sent:* Thu, 7 July, 2011 11:58:06

*Subject:* Re: [kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General - Aluta Continua

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 08:38, Crystal Watley Kigoni < crystal@voicesofafrica.org> wrote:

...

And when you become PMG, Yawe please change how customs deals with packages and the corruption there. I asked people from the States to stop sending packages for myself and the NGO because even though they were NOT for resale we were being charged up to 50 percent of an imaginary retail value (usually the highest price to be found on the internet). It became more expensive for me to clear items than it was

@Crystal,

The next stop for the big changes after Yawe become PMG would be Customs/KRA. The outfit is so draconian so much that you'd think you are an alien from outer space when you've got to deal with them. They are so secretive about the way they conduct themselves, like using threats to create fear in you, and push you into a corner. Their ultimate aim is to get you to grease their hands -- somehow. KRA/Customs MUST be reformed to become transparent to the citizens. They must be clear on the tax schedule (I mean a list detailing the categories of items and the tax levied on them), which should be published for public scrutiny. This idea of googling prices should never arise. There are times you find a Customs officer trying to force you to believe that a CCTV camera is a camcorder! KRA/Customs must also respect the citizens. They so far behave like the Police, who always think (mistakenly) that they are God, forgetting who their employer is.

Maybe our "PMG" should also handle the Customs docket!

-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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I remember those Posta passbooks ... we used to get boom, load em and thats was the only deposit... On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:56 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Hi,

Posta does not need agency business, PCK is supposed to be a fully fledged savings bank as it was before Post Bank was annexed. The agency models you are seeing now are merely short sighted stop gap measures.

The first bank account I ever had was Posta and that was when I was 16 years old, it was a no frills bank that served those at the bottom of the pyramid. The separation of Post Bank from Posta was the beginning of the end.

With Posta offering disbursement of the funds for the poor and old there is hope yet for its provision of independent financial services.

Regards

Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya

Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696

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*Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> *Sent:* Thu, 7 July, 2011 16:22:56

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Then of course are the opportunities created by agency banking, not only for KCB as currently being deployed, but PCK could easily be the bank with everybank within.. more or less like pesapoint..

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:18 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

...

Hi Listers,

After the mention of IBM I searched online for the report and found it on the KICT website http://www.ict.go.ke/IBMTalentStudy/Postal%20Corporation%20of%20Kenya%20Stra...

Please read the report and give your comments and observations. The report makes interest reading and confirms that PCK is still viable, unfortunately they come short of saying that the problem stems from the top and instead concentrate on line management.

It is also unfortunate that if I asked to be given access to a government entity like was given to IBM, my request would be definitely be denied.

This is very telling of the attitude that we have of our own capabilities, with a couple of you experts out there we would have produced a more comprehensive report of what ails PCK and offer more home grown solutions.

Regards

Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya

Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696

------------------------------ *From:* Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>

*To:* robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> *Sent:* Thu, 7 July, 2011 11:58:06

*Subject:* Re: [kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General - Aluta Continua

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 08:38, Crystal Watley Kigoni < crystal@voicesofafrica.org> wrote:

...

And when you become PMG, Yawe please change how customs deals with packages and the corruption there. I asked people from the States to stop sending packages for myself and the NGO because even though they were NOT for resale we were being charged up to 50 percent of an imaginary retail value (usually the highest price to be found on the internet). It became more expensive for me to clear items than it was

@Crystal,

The next stop for the big changes after Yawe become PMG would be Customs/KRA. The outfit is so draconian so much that you'd think you are an alien from outer space when you've got to deal with them. They are so secretive about the way they conduct themselves, like using threats to create fear in you, and push you into a corner. Their ultimate aim is to get you to grease their hands -- somehow. KRA/Customs MUST be reformed to become transparent to the citizens. They must be clear on the tax schedule (I mean a list detailing the categories of items and the tax levied on them), which should be published for public scrutiny. This idea of googling prices should never arise. There are times you find a Customs officer trying to force you to believe that a CCTV camera is a camcorder! KRA/Customs must also respect the citizens. They so far behave like the Police, who always think (mistakenly) that they are God, forgetting who their employer is.

Maybe our "PMG" should also handle the Customs docket!

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Hi Listers, While looking at the structure of PCK I noted that the PMG is a none voting member of the Board of Directors which introduces an interesting dilemma to me when I take over. The situation as it exists explains a lot why PCK has been used as a political pasture ground as the most that the holder of the PMG post can do is earn a salary and a few parks, he can actually do very little damage to the corporation. What this indicates is that the PMG is nothing more than an over glorified mailbox stuffer which now means that we need to work at either making the PMG a voting member of the BoD or introducing a CEO position with voting rights. There is also the possibility of becoming appointed a board member and also PMG for situation of which the act is silent Only the strong flourish in adversity. Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696

I think that, thanks to this 'Terminator' thread (I.em it will just not die) perhaps the PMG or his rep has tapped into KICTANET and gleaning a lot - freebie consulting if you like :) On 29/07/2011, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Hi,

Postal is becoming more and more efficient and so is KRA in so far as EMS deliveries are concerned meaning that the environment is becoming more enabling for me to make a great impact on appointment.

My son ordered a pair of SUPRA shoes (the hottest shoe in the world market today) from the web on the 18th of July, the shoes arrived on the 27th and I received an SMS alert.

The entire process that included verification by KRA officials (a very efficient one at that-GPO), calculation of taxes, payment of taxes and handling charges took me less than 20 minutes. In addition the parcel was intact and so were the contents.

Postal seems to have cleaned up the vandalism in their systems, I say this because the shoe I went to pick up costs over 15,000/- for an original on the streets of Nairobi in other words its a hot potato.

Regards

PS. Slowly the giant is awakening, as I waited for the process to be completed I looked at the local shipping tariffs for EMS and found that the most expensive destination is Moyale at a rate of 2,500/- for a 5 kilogram parcel Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya

Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696

________________________________ From: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Wed, 27 July, 2011 9:36:55 Subject: [kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General - A BoD issue

Hi Listers,

While looking at the structure of PCK I noted that the PMG is a none voting member of the Board of Directors which introduces an interesting dilemma to me when I take over.

The situation as it exists explains a lot why PCK has been used as a political pasture ground as the most that the holder of the PMG post can do is earn a salary and a few parks, he can actually do very little damage to the corporation.

What this indicates is that the PMG is nothing more than an over glorified mailbox stuffer which now means that we need to work at either making the PMG a voting member of the BoD or introducing a CEO position with voting rights.

There is also the possibility of becoming appointed a board member and also PMG for situation of which the act is silent

Only the strong flourish in adversity.

Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya

Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696

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Bobby, 1. How do you intend to take advantage of the new county system and regional opportunities (East Central and Southern Africa) The new county system will provide a new impetus to the need for post offices as a central location for accessing and disseminating information to the county citizens. Applications for passports, driving licenses and the like will be decentralised to the counties who would then need a cost effective way to receive and send out the documents. With the registered mail service sensitive information can be safely delivered thus reducing the opportunities for corruption and lack of accountability. On Tuesday PS Angote was complaining about the thousands of title deeds lying uncollected at Arthi House, a situation that has arisen by a lack of clear procedures for delivery of the documents. All that the Ministry needs to do is send out all completed documents to the provided postal address, this also helps to confirm the address to which the land rent demand notes will be sent to, the registrar of motor vehicles has always sent log books through the postal system why not the titles. However much you would like to convince ourself that a title deed is worth more than a car please note that a lot of land that is transacted in the country costs less than 500,000/- so if we can entrust the postal service with a log book for a car worth 15 million what is a title deed for a plot worth 150,000/-. PCK still remains one of the only ways to get mail and parcels to the hinterland of the region from Mandera to Mbeya and Arua to Lindi all at a fraction of the price of the next best. 1. What steps will you take to transform Post Offices in far flung places into profitable centres? When you are running a multi-locational organisation you must approach profitability in a holistic manner and not at individual locations. Such errors in reducing your profit calculations to branch level without reconciling it to the whole organisation have been made with large organisations like Barclay's Bank who in the heydays of branched banking went on a spree of shutting down unprofitable branches around the country. Someone had taken a report showing profitability by branch and proceeded to close any branch that was not showing a profit. Their error in judgement was only realised when someone noticed that closing of a branch in Meru resulted in a drop in profitability at the Queensway Branch. What the analyst had not realised was that customers had accounts in both branches and would then bank the money in Nairobi then transfer it to the Meru Branch so as not to need to drive from Nairobi to Meru with cash. The revenue for the transfer from Nairobi to Meru was realised and booked in the originating branch therefore giving the indication that one branch was more profitable than the other yet what they had was a symbiotic relationship. I would not want to make the same mistake with PCK as I am clear of the relationship between all branches in making sure that the entire organisation remains profitable. The confidence you get when you send medicine to a parent in your far flung region using PCK will strengthen your confidence when sending a less sensitive item within the city resulting in increased loyalty. 1. How will you encourage the public to troupe back to the Post Offices? The public never left just a few of us who believe that the entire world moved electronic, even as we post the postal service in the most developed countries still continue to operate profitably yet they have technology penetrations higher than in Kenya. We must not forget that even DHL continues to grow in leaps and bounds making snail mail deliveries, if email and SMS are instant then anything that takes longer than either of those services can be deemed slow. Not all information can be delivered electronically in 90% of cases a physical item will need to be delivered even though the initial transaction was electronic. PCK is the missing link in the supply chain for e-commerce, I will get you back to the post office but not necessarily physically as the final delivery will most likely be to your door. Through PCK I shall level the divide that currently exists and continues to widen between you in Nairobi and a student in Lokitaung, the student at Nairobi University with access to multiple bookshops and libraries to one in Maseno with access to a single overpriced and understocked bookshop. Regards On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:30 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

I have a few questions for you:

1. How will you increase the corporation’s revenues (i.e. what innovations ill you bring on-board to revive the sleeping giant), in the backdrop of its main products such as snail mail in sharp decline over the years as a result of modern IC technologies?

- To increase revenue I will develop the parcel service mainly for local delivery an area that will receive a lot of resistance from the new entrants in the industry who I believe are working in the background to keep PCK asleep.

I would like to give you a detailed reply on the ICT innovations I would want to implement but the current board and management could just pick on it and run thus loosing my strategic advantage.

2. Do you see any conflict of interest in your role at Posta as a result of your past, current or future engagements with the corporation/elsewhere?

I see no conflict of interest

3. What are your specific qualifications and experience that make you the best candidate for the role of PMG?

This question was answered before, this question if what has kept PCK where it is today as there is yet to be an institution which can train you on how to revive the organisation. Dr. James Mwangi would never have seen the light of day during the recruitment of the MD of KCB yet he runs a more profitable organisation despite the lack of "specific qualifications".

4. With a bloated/redundant workforce at Posta; how will you transform the organization to a lean and productive enterprise without causing “political” and sometimes ethnic uproar that comes with down/right sizing such an organization?

PCK is understaffed for the direction I plan to take the organisation, a workforce is only deemed to be bloated when the organisation is unable to profitably utilise them.

Orange has reduced the staff count from 21,000 to 1,500 finally yet there is no corresponding change in the bottom line. The total wage bill for PCKs 4,500 employees is less than that of some organisations with less than 150 employees, if anything I will be looking at increasing the wage bill not reducing it especially at the bottom of the organisation as a way to increase moral and reduce the anxiety of lay-offs

We need to be weary of the culture of reducing staff count as a fad and look at making productive use of the staff.

Regards

Best Regards,

Edwin M Onchari 0773711600 0720755951 eonchari@lynxbits.com

From:kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Odhiambo Washington Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 10:54 AM To: Edwin Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General - Aluta Continua

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 09:00, Joseph Mucheru <mucheru@google.com> wrote: Hi Robert,

Thanks for sharing your ambitions. Am curious and if you don't mind (since you have made your intentions public) I would like to start preparing public interview questions before your appointment.

1: Why do you think you are more qualified than the existing management? 2: Other than existing infrastructure that Posta has, have you also looked at the debts of the corporation to see the worthiness of the business? 3: Why don't you create a new Posta? Raise capital and use a network of existing businesses in the country. Am sure others can add more questions these are to start?

Hello Mucheru,

I am sure Yawe is well prepared to answer these, but what you have done is to turn the wheel back some months:) Yawe already pitched his reasons to support his quest some months back and those reasons are in the archives of this list. I am still very convinced that he can pull it off, given his pitch, which is perhaps what you need to start by reading.

What we (and him) want is a PCK that works, is profitable and is the pride of Kenyans, much like the UK Postal system, or any other "functional" one you can refer to elsewhere.

Don't we all know why Posta is the way it is? We just want the Posta Posta with Robert Yawe at the help, to turn it round. There is no point creating a new one. Just changing the business model, the employee mindset, coupled with sound management practices should be enough, or so I think.

PS: Robert, on a positive note, I recently decided to bite the bullet and sent my 1.7kg parcel to Australia using EMS Kenya. It cost me KES 6,300 (as opposed to KES 14,000 which DHL wanted to charge) and guess what? It arrived in Oz in a record 4-working days!! While they still don't have the Bumba boxes, it would appear that they are capable of delivering - cheaply than the likes of DHL.

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Hi Thomas, I agree with you partially on the issue of door to door delivery but that with the frequent changes in address and our lack of discipline in updating information the returns will bog down PCK. We also need to look at the entire country which might not have the same level of organisation that exists in certain parts of Nairobi. Imagine trying to deliver a letter to someone who stays in Mulango Kubwa or Block Ten. We still have a large population of nomadic people who we still need to serve. Lets be careful not to confuse email and physical mail delivery, even in the Netherlands where they have one of the most developed mail systems the P O Box still exists. What can be added to the service is an SMS notification thus reducing the need for you making regular trips to check if mail has arrived. In addition the postal system has a service that allows mail to be delivered to someone who does not have a mailbox and is send care of the post master. Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 ________________________________ From: Thomas Kibui <thomas.kibui@gmail.com> To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Fri, 1 July, 2011 12:35:15 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General - Aluta Continua Hello All, Robert.. this is what I would like PCK to embark on. We have to move away from the PO Box system where a subscriber rents a box to receive and send mail. Mail should be delivered to a physical / geographical registered address. The Metropolitan ministry recently emabarked on a plan to tag physical addresses with numbers and street names to geographical addresses and PCK could merge those with their own Postal Codes and deliver mail as opposed to having people collect it physically at the post office:

Hi, The mandate of PCK clearly indicates that they understand and apply the requirements of Universal Access more than any other player such as the deliver of a letter, equivalent to 21 SMS messages, anywhere in the country for only 35/-. If we had all the post offices linked via the National FibrOptic cable it would would provide an instant opportunity for rural data by installing 4G base stations at each of the 700 post offices initially providing connectivity to the schools, hospitals and health centres within the vicinity. Show me any other player who can achieve such a roll out with such low overheads? The more I thing of the untapped potential of PCK the more my head aches. Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 ________________________________ From: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Wed, 6 July, 2011 7:33:29 Subject: [kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General - Aluta Continua Posta is the "public postal licensee" and the official universal service provider for Kenya. As such, Posta must provide the "consistent supply of basic quality postal services [including reserved services and postal financial services] at affordable prices at all points in the country." Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 ________________________________ From: Thomas Kibui <thomas.kibui@gmail.com> To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Fri, 1 July, 2011 12:35:15 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General - Aluta Continua Hello All, Robert.. this is what I would like PCK to embark on. We have to move away from the PO Box system where a subscriber rents a box to receive and send mail. Mail should be delivered to a physical / geographical registered address. The Metropolitan ministry recently emabarked on a plan to tag physical addresses with numbers and street names to geographical addresses and PCK could merge those with their own Postal Codes and deliver mail as opposed to having people collect it physically at the post office:

@Muraya, me thots exactly I'm convinced Bobby has what it takes and if he continues further, like he said, the current leadership might just pick on his ideas and ran away with them The question here is how do we get Robert in? Is there anything we can do or is this list the furthest as we can go? Haki yetu! -- Warm Regards Francis Okinyo 0710-989318/0735-056206 On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 11:25 AM, S.Murigi Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com>wrote:

Seriously, can Robert join the PCK as a Director on the Board even before the top post is made available?

Am sure the appointment will require Parliamentary approval now. Yes? No? On Jul 8, 2011 11:14 AM, "robert yawe" <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

...

Hi,

The mandate of PCK clearly indicates that they understand and apply the requirements of Universal Access more than any other player such as the deliver of a letter, equivalent to 21 SMS messages, anywhere in the country for only 35/-.

If we had all the post offices linked via the National FibrOptic cable it would would provide an instant opportunity for rural data by installing 4G base

...

stations at each of the 700 post offices initially providing connectivity to the schools, hospitals and health centres within the vicinity. Show me any other player who can achieve such a roll out with such low overheads?

The more I thing of the untapped potential of PCK the more my head aches.

Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya

Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696

________________________________ From: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Wed, 6 July, 2011 7:33:29 Subject: [kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General - Aluta Continua

Posta is the "public postal licensee" and the official universal service provider for Kenya. As such, Posta must provide the "consistent supply of basic quality postal services [including reserved services and postal financial

...

services] at affordable prices at all points in the country." Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya

Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696

________________________________ From: Thomas Kibui <thomas.kibui@gmail.com> To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Fri, 1 July, 2011 12:35:15 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General - Aluta Continua

Hello All,

Robert.. this is what I would like PCK to embark on.

We have to move away from the PO Box system where a subscriber rents a box to receive and send mail. Mail should be delivered to a physical / geographical registered address. The Metropolitan ministry recently emabarked on a plan to tag physical addresses with numbers and street names to geographical addresses and PCK could merge those with their own Postal Codes and deliver mail as

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opposed to having people collect it physically at the post office:

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@ Francis, Robert continues to demonstrate that he is really not interested in the Position but in leadership. He has been consistent and we can all attest to the fact that he does alot of thinking on how he would turn around the Corporation if he was the Post Master General. Lets wait to hear from Dr. Ndemo on the process and the possibility of how Robert can get in. Rgds Grace ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have the strength to survive, you have the power to succeed. Life is all about choices we make depending upon the situation we are in. Go forth and rule the World! Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:26:37 +0300 From: okinyo@gmail.com Subject: Re: [kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General - Aluta Continua CC: kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke To: ggithaiga@hotmail.com @Muraya, me thots exactly I'm convinced Bobby has what it takes and if he continues further, like he said, the current leadership might just pick on his ideas and ran away with them The question here is how do we get Robert in? Is there anything we can do or is this list the furthest as we can go? Haki yetu!-- Warm Regards Francis Okinyo 0710-989318/0735-056206 On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 11:25 AM, S.Murigi Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com> wrote: Seriously, can Robert join the PCK as a Director on the Board even before the top post is made available? Am sure the appointment will require Parliamentary approval now. Yes? No? On Jul 8, 2011 11:14 AM, "robert yawe" <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Hi,

The mandate of PCK clearly indicates that they understand and apply the requirements of Universal Access more than any other player such as the deliver of a letter, equivalent to 21 SMS messages, anywhere in the country for only 35/-.

If we had all the post offices linked via the National FibrOptic cable it would would provide an instant opportunity for rural data by installing 4G base stations at each of the 700 post offices initially providing connectivity to the schools, hospitals and health centres within the vicinity. Show me any other player who can achieve such a roll out with such low overheads?

The more I thing of the untapped potential of PCK the more my head aches.

Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya

Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696

________________________________ From: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Wed, 6 July, 2011 7:33:29 Subject: [kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General - Aluta Continua

Posta is the "public postal licensee" and the official universal service provider for Kenya. As such, Posta must provide the "consistent supply of basic quality postal services [including reserved services and postal financial services] at affordable prices at all points in the country." Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya

Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696

________________________________ From: Thomas Kibui <thomas.kibui@gmail.com> To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Fri, 1 July, 2011 12:35:15 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General - Aluta Continua

Hello All,

Robert.. this is what I would like PCK to embark on.

We have to move away from the PO Box system where a subscriber rents a box to receive and send mail. Mail should be delivered to a physical / geographical registered address. The Metropolitan ministry recently emabarked on a plan to tag physical addresses with numbers and street names to geographical addresses and PCK could merge those with their own Postal Codes and deliver mail as opposed to having people collect it physically at the post office:

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