Cofek Article citing Digital Villages
Dear listers The article by COFEK (Consumer Federation of Kenya) on their website, http://www.cofek.co.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1529%3Awhy-ndemo-may-have-been-missed-on-the-ict-docket&catid=1%3Alatest-news&Itemid=62creates the impression that digital villages do not exist. The Kenya ICT Board wishes to correct this position. The Kenya ICT Board has committed funding for 65 Pasha centres to date across the country. For a factual update, we urge listers to visit. http://www.ict.go.ke/index.php/digitalinclusion. We will update this even further with an announcement we are making on Monday to further develop these centres. The Kenya ICT Board will write to COFEK formally providing further information in the public interest on the basis of COFEK's stated goal as stated on their website "advocacy is based on authentic information as backed by continuous research." We have finalised our 6 year report on the Kenya ICT Board which is currently being printed. we shall upload a digital copy onto our website, in the next week or so. This will make an exciting read on the sector. My view as the outgoing Kenya ICT Board CEO is that Dr Ndemo provided the vision, compeled us to seek a world class approach, set the tone of energetic execution, helped us cement partnerships in order to improve capacity, and focus on enterprise development, innovation and the ordinary citizen. He cautioned against getting too carried away in ICT dogma, but asked that we rather just get the job done. This was augmented with spirit of learning to pick up quickly from mistakes, (and many were made). There will be much debate, and indeed many things are left for the next team to do. As a team, we gave this our very best effort and Dr Ndemo gave us a style of leadership that even in the best private sector environments, you will struggle to find. (I will write more extensively on this later.) We reaped a leadership dividend in the sector, with support from the highest level of government. On this score there can be no debate. The country is much better for it We pray this carries on. Asante Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, (outgoing), Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya 12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960 Fax: +254 20 2211962 website: www.ict.go.ke local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya twitter:@tandaaKENYA BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke personal contacts _______________ Cell: + 254 717 180001 skype: kukubopaul googletalk: pkukubo personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke personal twitter: @pkukubo ____________________ Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment
Hmm, seems to me that COFEK's credibility is decaying rapidly with these kind of false allegations, one would expect a consumer body to embrace the highest standards for integrity, honesty, fairness....but apparently...... On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Paul Kukubo <pkukubo@ict.go.ke> wrote:
Dear listers
The article by COFEK (Consumer Federation of Kenya) on their website, http://www.cofek.co.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1529%3Awhy-ndemo-may-have-been-missed-on-the-ict-docket&catid=1%3Alatest-news&Itemid=62creates the impression that digital villages do not exist. The Kenya ICT Board wishes to correct this position.
The Kenya ICT Board has committed funding for 65 Pasha centres to date across the country. For a factual update, we urge listers to visit. http://www.ict.go.ke/index.php/digitalinclusion. We will update this even further with an announcement we are making on Monday to further develop these centres.
The Kenya ICT Board will write to COFEK formally providing further information in the public interest on the basis of COFEK's stated goal as stated on their website "advocacy is based on authentic information as backed by continuous research."
We have finalised our 6 year report on the Kenya ICT Board which is currently being printed. we shall upload a digital copy onto our website, in the next week or so. This will make an exciting read on the sector.
My view as the outgoing Kenya ICT Board CEO is that Dr Ndemo provided the vision, compeled us to seek a world class approach, set the tone of energetic execution, helped us cement partnerships in order to improve capacity, and focus on enterprise development, innovation and the ordinary citizen. He cautioned against getting too carried away in ICT dogma, but asked that we rather just get the job done. This was augmented with spirit of learning to pick up quickly from mistakes, (and many were made). There will be much debate, and indeed many things are left for the next team to do.
As a team, we gave this our very best effort and Dr Ndemo gave us a style of leadership that even in the best private sector environments, you will struggle to find. (I will write more extensively on this later.)
We reaped a leadership dividend in the sector, with support from the highest level of government. On this score there can be no debate. The country is much better for it
We pray this carries on.
Asante
Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, (outgoing), Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya
12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street
Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960 Fax: +254 20 2211962 website: www.ict.go.ke local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya twitter:@tandaaKENYA BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke
personal contacts _______________
Cell: + 254 717 180001
skype: kukubopaul googletalk: pkukubo personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke personal twitter: @pkukubo
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Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment
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Dear colleagues and Mr. Kukubo I just want to clarify that the pasha centers do exist, and I have viewed them. As of my last audit, many were not yet in operation, so we may need to go do another review. With regards to the safaricom digital villages, based on my research, which many on this list participated in, it is indeed fair to say that they do not really exist, other than as private cybers with a banner. It is possible that massive improvements have been made, in which case lets go out in the field this summer! Mr. Kukubo, perhaps you need to make a strong effort to brand the pashas separately from the digital villages. Take care, and kind regards, Warigia On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe@gmail.com>wrote:
Hmm, seems to me that COFEK's credibility is decaying rapidly with these kind of false allegations, one would expect a consumer body to embrace the highest standards for integrity, honesty, fairness....but apparently......
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Paul Kukubo <pkukubo@ict.go.ke> wrote:
Dear listers
The article by COFEK (Consumer Federation of Kenya) on their website, http://www.cofek.co.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1529%3Awhy-ndemo-may-have-been-missed-on-the-ict-docket&catid=1%3Alatest-news&Itemid=62creates the impression that digital villages do not exist. The Kenya ICT Board wishes to correct this position.
The Kenya ICT Board has committed funding for 65 Pasha centres to date across the country. For a factual update, we urge listers to visit. http://www.ict.go.ke/index.php/digitalinclusion. We will update this even further with an announcement we are making on Monday to further develop these centres.
The Kenya ICT Board will write to COFEK formally providing further information in the public interest on the basis of COFEK's stated goal as stated on their website "advocacy is based on authentic information as backed by continuous research."
We have finalised our 6 year report on the Kenya ICT Board which is currently being printed. we shall upload a digital copy onto our website, in the next week or so. This will make an exciting read on the sector.
My view as the outgoing Kenya ICT Board CEO is that Dr Ndemo provided the vision, compeled us to seek a world class approach, set the tone of energetic execution, helped us cement partnerships in order to improve capacity, and focus on enterprise development, innovation and the ordinary citizen. He cautioned against getting too carried away in ICT dogma, but asked that we rather just get the job done. This was augmented with spirit of learning to pick up quickly from mistakes, (and many were made). There will be much debate, and indeed many things are left for the next team to do.
As a team, we gave this our very best effort and Dr Ndemo gave us a style of leadership that even in the best private sector environments, you will struggle to find. (I will write more extensively on this later.)
We reaped a leadership dividend in the sector, with support from the highest level of government. On this score there can be no debate. The country is much better for it
We pray this carries on.
Asante
Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, (outgoing), Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya
12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street
Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960 Fax: +254 20 2211962 website: www.ict.go.ke local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya twitter:@tandaaKENYA BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke
personal contacts _______________
Cell: + 254 717 180001
skype: kukubopaul googletalk: pkukubo personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke personal twitter: @pkukubo
____________________ Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub
Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment
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Allow me to shed some light on this matter. On behalf Dr Ndemo, l chair the committee that was to utilize close to ksh 250 million- as part of the Economic stimulus Programme to role out the Digital Villages throughout the country. In conjunction with the PCK the progamme would cover select Post Offices and later cover all of them. This was in line with the wider objective of reaching out to the rest of the country as the Government embarked on the 'one stop shop' concept of providing services in line with the Constitutions devolved system (indeed a team from PCK went to Brazil to benchmark on this). Unfortunately due to time constraints in the preparations, the funds were not utilized by the time the budget was revised. The funds were withdrawn. The committee is still in place and hopefully the funds will be made available next financial year to actualize the dream of having digital villages in all the post offices in the country. Madete On Thursday, April 25, 2013, Warigia Bowman wrote:
Dear colleagues and Mr. Kukubo
I just want to clarify that the pasha centers do exist, and I have viewed them. As of my last audit, many were not yet in operation, so we may need to go do another review.
With regards to the safaricom digital villages, based on my research, which many on this list participated in, it is indeed fair to say that they do not really exist, other than as private cybers with a banner. It is possible that massive improvements have been made, in which case lets go out in the field this summer!
Mr. Kukubo, perhaps you need to make a strong effort to brand the pashas separately from the digital villages.
Take care, and kind regards,
Warigia
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe@gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'blongwe@gmail.com');>
wrote:
Hmm, seems to me that COFEK's credibility is decaying rapidly with these kind of false allegations, one would expect a consumer body to embrace the highest standards for integrity, honesty, fairness....but apparently......
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Paul Kukubo <pkukubo@ict.go.ke> wrote:
Dear listers
The article by COFEK (Consumer Federation of Kenya) on their website, http://www.cofek.co.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1529%3Awhy-ndemo-may-have-been-missed-on-the-ict-docket&catid=1%3Alatest-news&Itemid=62creates the impression that digital villages do not exist. The Kenya ICT Board wishes to correct this position.
The Kenya ICT Board has committed funding for 65 Pasha centres to date across the country. For a factual update, we urge listers to visit. http://www.ict.go.ke/index.php/digitalinclusion. We will update this even further with an announcement we are making on Monday to further develop these centres.
The Kenya ICT Board will write to COFEK formally providing further information in the public interest on the basis of COFEK's stated goal as stated on their website "advocacy is based on authentic information as backed by continuous research."
We have finalised our 6 year report on the Kenya ICT Board which is currently being printed. we shall upload a digital copy onto our website, in the next week or so. This will make an exciting read on the sector.
My view as the outgoing Kenya ICT Board CEO is that Dr Ndemo provided the vision, compeled us to seek a world class approach, set the tone of energetic execution, helped us cement partnerships in order to improve capacity, and focus on enterprise development, innovation and the ordinary citizen. He cautioned against getting too carried away in ICT dogma, but asked that we rather just get the job done. This was augmented with spirit of learning to pick up quickly from mistakes, (and many were made). There will be much debate, and indeed many things are left for the next team to do.
As a team, we gave this our very best effort and Dr Ndemo gave us a style of leadership that even in the best private sector environments, you will struggle to find. (I will write more extensively on this later.)
We reaped a leadership dividend in the sector, with support from the highest level of government. On this score there can be no debate. The country is much better for it
We pray this carries on.
Asante
Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, (outgoing), Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya
12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street
Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960 Fax: +254 20 2211962 website: www.ict.go.ke local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya twitter:@tandaaKENYA BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke
personal contacts _______________
Cell: + 254 717 180001
skype: kukubopaul googletalk: pkukubo personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke personal twitter: @pkukubo
____________________ Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub
Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment
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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.
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Correction, all the post offices minus the 56 that have been recently closed/sold or however Posta disposed of them.... On Thursday, April 25, 2013, Bruce Madete wrote:
Allow me to shed some light on this matter. On behalf Dr Ndemo, l chair the committee that was to utilize close to ksh 250 million- as part of the Economic stimulus Programme to role out the Digital Villages throughout the country. In conjunction with the PCK the progamme would cover select Post Offices and later cover all of them. This was in line with the wider objective of reaching out to the rest of the country as the Government embarked on the 'one stop shop' concept of providing services in line with the Constitutions devolved system (indeed a team from PCK went to Brazil to benchmark on this). Unfortunately due to time constraints in the preparations, the funds were not utilized by the time the budget was revised. The funds were withdrawn. The committee is still in place and hopefully the funds will be made available next financial year to actualize the dream of having digital villages in all the post offices in the country. Madete
On Thursday, April 25, 2013, Warigia Bowman wrote:
Dear colleagues and Mr. Kukubo
I just want to clarify that the pasha centers do exist, and I have viewed them. As of my last audit, many were not yet in operation, so we may need to go do another review.
With regards to the safaricom digital villages, based on my research, which many on this list participated in, it is indeed fair to say that they do not really exist, other than as private cybers with a banner. It is possible that massive improvements have been made, in which case lets go out in the field this summer!
Mr. Kukubo, perhaps you need to make a strong effort to brand the pashas separately from the digital villages.
Take care, and kind regards,
Warigia
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe@gmail.com>wrote:
Hmm, seems to me that COFEK's credibility is decaying rapidly with these kind of false allegations, one would expect a consumer body to embrace the highest standards for integrity, honesty, fairness....but apparently......
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Paul Kukubo <pkukubo@ict.go.ke> wrote:
Dear listers
The article by COFEK (Consumer Federation of Kenya) on their website, http://www.cofek.co.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1529%3Awhy-ndemo-may-have-been-missed-on-the-ict-docket&catid=1%3Alatest-news&Itemid=62creates the impression that digital villages do not exist. The Kenya ICT Board wishes to correct this position.
The Kenya ICT Board has committed funding for 65 Pasha centres to date across the country. For a factual update, we urge listers to visit. http://www.ict.go.ke/index.php/digitalinclusion. We will update this even further with an announcement we are making on Monday to further develop these centres.
The Kenya ICT Board will write to COFEK formally providing further information in the public interest on the basis of COFEK's stated goal as stated on their website "advocacy is based on authentic information as backed by continuous research."
We have finalised our 6 year report on the Kenya ICT Board which is currently being printed. we shall upload a digital copy onto our website, in the next week or so. This will make an exciting read on the sector.
My view as the outgoing Kenya ICT Board CEO is that Dr Ndemo provided the vision, compeled us to seek a world class approach, set the tone of energetic execution, helped us cement partnerships in order to improve capacity, and focus on enterprise development, innovation and the ordinary citizen. He cautioned against getting too carried away in ICT dogma, but asked that we rather just get the job done. This was augmented with spirit of learning to pick up quickly from mistakes, (and many were made). There will be much debate, and indeed many things are left for the next team to do.
As a team, we gave this our very best effort and Dr Ndemo gave us a style of leadership that even in the best private sector environments, you will struggle to find. (I will write more extensively on this later.)
We reaped a leadership dividend in the sector, with support from the highest level of government. On this score there can be no debate. The country is much better for it
We pray this carries on.
Asante
Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, (outgoing), Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya
12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street
Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960 Fax: +254 20 2211962 website: www.ict.go.ke local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya twitter:@tandaaKENYA BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke
personal contacts _______________
Cell: + 254 717 180001
skype: kukubopaul googletalk: pkukubo personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke personal twitter: @pkukubo
____________________ Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub
Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment
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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.
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Dear Mr. Madete , Dr. Ndemo and Mr, Kukubo I humbly suggest that the GoK make distinctions between Safaricom Digital Villages, pashas and posta, to avoid confusion. You have a branding problem here. WMB On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe@gmail.com>wrote:
Correction, all the post offices minus the 56 that have been recently closed/sold or however Posta disposed of them....
On Thursday, April 25, 2013, Bruce Madete wrote:
Allow me to shed some light on this matter. On behalf Dr Ndemo, l chair the committee that was to utilize close to ksh 250 million- as part of the Economic stimulus Programme to role out the Digital Villages throughout the country. In conjunction with the PCK the progamme would cover select Post Offices and later cover all of them. This was in line with the wider objective of reaching out to the rest of the country as the Government embarked on the 'one stop shop' concept of providing services in line with the Constitutions devolved system (indeed a team from PCK went to Brazil to benchmark on this). Unfortunately due to time constraints in the preparations, the funds were not utilized by the time the budget was revised. The funds were withdrawn. The committee is still in place and hopefully the funds will be made available next financial year to actualize the dream of having digital villages in all the post offices in the country. Madete
On Thursday, April 25, 2013, Warigia Bowman wrote:
Dear colleagues and Mr. Kukubo
I just want to clarify that the pasha centers do exist, and I have viewed them. As of my last audit, many were not yet in operation, so we may need to go do another review.
With regards to the safaricom digital villages, based on my research, which many on this list participated in, it is indeed fair to say that they do not really exist, other than as private cybers with a banner. It is possible that massive improvements have been made, in which case lets go out in the field this summer!
Mr. Kukubo, perhaps you need to make a strong effort to brand the pashas separately from the digital villages.
Take care, and kind regards,
Warigia
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe@gmail.com>wrote:
Hmm, seems to me that COFEK's credibility is decaying rapidly with these kind of false allegations, one would expect a consumer body to embrace the highest standards for integrity, honesty, fairness....but apparently......
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Paul Kukubo <pkukubo@ict.go.ke> wrote:
Dear listers
The article by COFEK (Consumer Federation of Kenya) on their website, http://www.cofek.co.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1529%3Awhy-ndemo-may-have-been-missed-on-the-ict-docket&catid=1%3Alatest-news&Itemid=62creates the impression that digital villages do not exist. The Kenya ICT Board wishes to correct this position.
The Kenya ICT Board has committed funding for 65 Pasha centres to date across the country. For a factual update, we urge listers to visit. http://www.ict.go.ke/index.php/digitalinclusion. We will update this even further with an announcement we are making on Monday to further develop these centres.
The Kenya ICT Board will write to COFEK formally providing further information in the public interest on the basis of COFEK's stated goal as stated on their website "advocacy is based on authentic information as backed by continuous research."
We have finalised our 6 year report on the Kenya ICT Board which is currently being printed. we shall upload a digital copy onto our website, in the next week or so. This will make an exciting read on the sector.
My view as the outgoing Kenya ICT Board CEO is that Dr Ndemo provided the vision, compeled us to seek a world class approach, set the tone of energetic execution, helped us cement partnerships in order to improve capacity, and focus on enterprise development, innovation and the ordinary citizen. He cautioned against getting too carried away in ICT dogma, but asked that we rather just get the job done. This was augmented with spirit of learning to pick up quickly from mistakes, (and many were made). There will be much debate, and indeed many things are left for the next team to do.
As a team, we gave this our very best effort and Dr Ndemo gave us a style of leadership that even in the best private sector environments, you will struggle to find. (I will write more extensively on this later.)
We reaped a leadership dividend in the sector, with support from the highest level of government. On this score there can be no debate. The country is much better for it
We pray this carries on.
Asante
Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, (outgoing), Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya
12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street
Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960 Fax: +254 20 2211962 website: www.ict.go.ke local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya twitter:@tandaaKENYA BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke
personal contacts _______________
Cell: + 254 717 180001
skype: kukubopaul googletalk: pkukubo personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke personal twitter: @pkukubo
____________________ Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub
Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment
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Mr. Kukubo should know better than play PR on the list. Many of the Pasha centers are studs with no operation. We live in these villages and we see them. The result of an independent audit done by Listers and spearheaded by Dr. Warigia Bowman is available in the archives of this list. It emerged that one major operator was claiming to sponsor the Digital Villages hence get exempted from the USF yet at the ground, the Digital Villages are NGOs (Nothing Going On). This amounts to stealing from me, the public. Actually, the operator should be compelled to pay arrears she owes to the USF. It's criminal. @Madete, repeat projects are a ripe area for grand-corruption and looting public money. Postal cooperation of Kenya rolled out VSAT to all Post offices in Kenya, with cyber cafe like operations dubbed "Posta Surf". It was a total failure. That project became a white elephant and Kenya lost millions of shillings. My fellow citizens, let us be vigilant and eagle eyed for taxpayers money to be used wisely. There are people who are already salivating on thinking of this new project Mr. Madete is talking about. For the failed corrupt "Posta Surf" initiative scandal, please read the Mars Group report here http://www.marsgroupkenya.org/corruption/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=29 Regards On 25/04/2013, Bruce Madete <madetebruce@gmail.com> wrote:
Allow me to shed some light on this matter. On behalf Dr Ndemo, l chair the committee that was to utilize close to ksh 250 million- as part of the Economic stimulus Programme to role out the Digital Villages throughout the country. In conjunction with the PCK the progamme would cover select Post Offices and later cover all of them. This was in line with the wider objective of reaching out to the rest of the country as the Government embarked on the 'one stop shop' concept of providing services in line with the Constitutions devolved system (indeed a team from PCK went to Brazil to benchmark on this). Unfortunately due to time constraints in the preparations, the funds were not utilized by the time the budget was revised. The funds were withdrawn. The committee is still in place and hopefully the funds will be made available next financial year to actualize the dream of having digital villages in all the post offices in the country. Madete
On Thursday, April 25, 2013, Warigia Bowman wrote:
Dear colleagues and Mr. Kukubo
I just want to clarify that the pasha centers do exist, and I have viewed them. As of my last audit, many were not yet in operation, so we may need to go do another review.
With regards to the safaricom digital villages, based on my research, which many on this list participated in, it is indeed fair to say that they do not really exist, other than as private cybers with a banner. It is possible that massive improvements have been made, in which case lets go out in the field this summer!
Mr. Kukubo, perhaps you need to make a strong effort to brand the pashas separately from the digital villages.
Take care, and kind regards,
Warigia
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe@gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'blongwe@gmail.com');>
wrote:
Hmm, seems to me that COFEK's credibility is decaying rapidly with these kind of false allegations, one would expect a consumer body to embrace the highest standards for integrity, honesty, fairness....but apparently......
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Paul Kukubo <pkukubo@ict.go.ke> wrote:
Dear listers
The article by COFEK (Consumer Federation of Kenya) on their website, http://www.cofek.co.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1529%3Awhy-ndemo-may-have-been-missed-on-the-ict-docket&catid=1%3Alatest-news&Itemid=62creates the impression that digital villages do not exist. The Kenya ICT Board wishes to correct this position.
The Kenya ICT Board has committed funding for 65 Pasha centres to date across the country. For a factual update, we urge listers to visit. http://www.ict.go.ke/index.php/digitalinclusion. We will update this even further with an announcement we are making on Monday to further develop these centres.
The Kenya ICT Board will write to COFEK formally providing further information in the public interest on the basis of COFEK's stated goal as stated on their website "advocacy is based on authentic information as backed by continuous research."
We have finalised our 6 year report on the Kenya ICT Board which is currently being printed. we shall upload a digital copy onto our website, in the next week or so. This will make an exciting read on the sector.
My view as the outgoing Kenya ICT Board CEO is that Dr Ndemo provided the vision, compeled us to seek a world class approach, set the tone of energetic execution, helped us cement partnerships in order to improve capacity, and focus on enterprise development, innovation and the ordinary citizen. He cautioned against getting too carried away in ICT dogma, but asked that we rather just get the job done. This was augmented with spirit of learning to pick up quickly from mistakes, (and many were made). There will be much debate, and indeed many things are left for the next team to do.
As a team, we gave this our very best effort and Dr Ndemo gave us a style of leadership that even in the best private sector environments, you will struggle to find. (I will write more extensively on this later.)
We reaped a leadership dividend in the sector, with support from the highest level of government. On this score there can be no debate. The country is much better for it
We pray this carries on.
Asante
Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, (outgoing), Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya
12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street
Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960 Fax: +254 20 2211962 website: www.ict.go.ke local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya twitter:@tandaaKENYA BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke
personal contacts _______________
Cell: + 254 717 180001
skype: kukubopaul googletalk: pkukubo personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke personal twitter: @pkukubo
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Kivuva Indeed some of the Kenya ICT Board supported Pasha Centres are struggling, while others are doing well, based on research that we conduct regularly with Deloitte. That is a separate discussion. I suggest you provide details of the "many villages that you live in" you refer to in your email. Pasha centres, ( branded PASHA) are NOT owned or operated by the Kenya ICT Board but rather by Kenyan wananchi out there. Most received one month of business plan and operational execution training from us prior to us selecting them. We trained over 1000 Kenyans nationwide before commencing this project. The Pasha model works in the following way: we advertise for potential entrepreneurs who have to submit a business plan for a loan that is administered by Family Bank at preferential interest. This is a commercial model intended to be self sustaining. I humbly suggest that you take the time to develop an informed opinion. Casual generalization would degenerate a useful discussion, which is otherwise worth having. Your email does not even convince me you Pasha centre managers demonstrate different levels of business maturity and come from different counties with different levels of business opportunity. They have varying levels of success. This is not unexpected. However, what we have on our website as a statement of fact is the progress report on this effort over the past 4 years. This is not playing PR (a statement I take particular exception to). Asante Paul Kukubo CEO Kenya ICT Board Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya 12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960 Fax: +254 20 2211962 website: www.ict.go.ke local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya twitter:@tandaaKENYA BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke personal contacts _______________ Cell: + 254 717 180001 skype: kukubopaul googletalk: pkukubo personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke personal twitter: @pkukubo ____________________ Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com>wrote:
Mr. Kukubo should know better than play PR on the list. Many of the Pasha centers are studs with no operation. We live in these villages and we see them.
The result of an independent audit done by Listers and spearheaded by Dr. Warigia Bowman is available in the archives of this list. It emerged that one major operator was claiming to sponsor the Digital Villages hence get exempted from the USF yet at the ground, the Digital Villages are NGOs (Nothing Going On). This amounts to stealing from me, the public. Actually, the operator should be compelled to pay arrears she owes to the USF. It's criminal.
@Madete, repeat projects are a ripe area for grand-corruption and looting public money. Postal cooperation of Kenya rolled out VSAT to all Post offices in Kenya, with cyber cafe like operations dubbed "Posta Surf". It was a total failure. That project became a white elephant and Kenya lost millions of shillings. My fellow citizens, let us be vigilant and eagle eyed for taxpayers money to be used wisely. There are people who are already salivating on thinking of this new project Mr. Madete is talking about. For the failed corrupt "Posta Surf" initiative scandal, please read the Mars Group report here
http://www.marsgroupkenya.org/corruption/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=29
Regards
Allow me to shed some light on this matter. On behalf Dr Ndemo, l chair
committee that was to utilize close to ksh 250 million- as part of the Economic stimulus Programme to role out the Digital Villages throughout
country. In conjunction with the PCK the progamme would cover select Post Offices and later cover all of them. This was in line with the wider objective of reaching out to the rest of the country as the Government embarked on the 'one stop shop' concept of providing services in line with the Constitutions devolved system (indeed a team from PCK went to Brazil to benchmark on this). Unfortunately due to time constraints in the preparations, the funds were not utilized by the time the budget was revised. The funds were withdrawn. The committee is still in place and hopefully the funds will be made available next financial year to actualize the dream of having digital villages in all the post offices in the country. Madete
On Thursday, April 25, 2013, Warigia Bowman wrote:
Dear colleagues and Mr. Kukubo
I just want to clarify that the pasha centers do exist, and I have viewed them. As of my last audit, many were not yet in operation, so we may need to go do another review.
With regards to the safaricom digital villages, based on my research, which many on this list participated in, it is indeed fair to say that they do not really exist, other than as private cybers with a banner. It is possible that massive improvements have been made, in which case lets go out in the field this summer!
Mr. Kukubo, perhaps you need to make a strong effort to brand the pashas separately from the digital villages.
Take care, and kind regards,
Warigia
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe@gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'blongwe@gmail.com');>
wrote:
Hmm, seems to me that COFEK's credibility is decaying rapidly with
On 25/04/2013, Bruce Madete <madetebruce@gmail.com> wrote: the the these
kind of false allegations, one would expect a consumer body to embrace the highest standards for integrity, honesty, fairness....but apparently......
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Paul Kukubo <pkukubo@ict.go.ke> wrote:
Dear listers
The article by COFEK (Consumer Federation of Kenya) on their website,
the impression that digital villages do not exist. The Kenya ICT Board wishes to correct this position.
The Kenya ICT Board has committed funding for 65 Pasha centres to date across the country. For a factual update, we urge listers to visit. http://www.ict.go.ke/index.php/digitalinclusion. We will update this even further with an announcement we are making on Monday to further develop these centres.
The Kenya ICT Board will write to COFEK formally providing further information in the public interest on the basis of COFEK's stated goal as stated on their website "advocacy is based on authentic information as backed by continuous research."
We have finalised our 6 year report on the Kenya ICT Board which is currently being printed. we shall upload a digital copy onto our website, in the next week or so. This will make an exciting read on the sector.
My view as the outgoing Kenya ICT Board CEO is that Dr Ndemo provided the vision, compeled us to seek a world class approach, set the tone of energetic execution, helped us cement partnerships in order to improve capacity, and focus on enterprise development, innovation and the ordinary citizen. He cautioned against getting too carried away in ICT dogma, but asked that we rather just get the job done. This was augmented with spirit of learning to pick up quickly from mistakes, (and many were made). There will be much debate, and indeed many things are left for the next team to do.
As a team, we gave this our very best effort and Dr Ndemo gave us a style of leadership that even in the best private sector environments, you will struggle to find. (I will write more extensively on this later.)
We reaped a leadership dividend in the sector, with support from the highest level of government. On this score there can be no debate. The country is much better for it
We pray this carries on.
Asante
Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, (outgoing), Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya
12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street
Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960 Fax: +254 20 2211962 website: www.ict.go.ke local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya twitter:@tandaaKENYA BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke
personal contacts _______________
Cell: + 254 717 180001
skype: kukubopaul googletalk: pkukubo personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke personal twitter: @pkukubo
____________________ Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub
Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment
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Some Pictures here from our Facebook page after our staff visits https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151177732963204.435290.304703803203&type=1 Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya 12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960 Fax: +254 20 2211962 website: www.ict.go.ke local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya twitter:@tandaaKENYA BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke personal contacts _______________ Cell: + 254 717 180001 skype: kukubopaul googletalk: pkukubo personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke personal twitter: @pkukubo ____________________ Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Paul Kukubo <pkukubo@ict.go.ke> wrote:
Kivuva
Indeed some of the Kenya ICT Board supported Pasha Centres are struggling, while others are doing well, based on research that we conduct regularly with Deloitte. That is a separate discussion. I suggest you provide details of the "many villages that you live in" you refer to in your email.
Pasha centres, ( branded PASHA) are NOT owned or operated by the Kenya ICT Board but rather by Kenyan wananchi out there. Most received one month of business plan and operational execution training from us prior to us selecting them. We trained over 1000 Kenyans nationwide before commencing this project.
The Pasha model works in the following way: we advertise for potential entrepreneurs who have to submit a business plan for a loan that is administered by Family Bank at preferential interest. This is a commercial model intended to be self sustaining.
I humbly suggest that you take the time to develop an informed opinion. Casual generalization would degenerate a useful discussion, which is otherwise worth having. Your email does not even convince me you
Pasha centre managers demonstrate different levels of business maturity and come from different counties with different levels of business opportunity. They have varying levels of success. This is not unexpected.
However, what we have on our website as a statement of fact is the progress report on this effort over the past 4 years. This is not playing PR (a statement I take particular exception to).
Asante
Paul Kukubo CEO Kenya ICT Board
Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, Kenya ICT Board
PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya
12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street
Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960 Fax: +254 20 2211962 website: www.ict.go.ke local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya twitter:@tandaaKENYA BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke
personal contacts _______________
Cell: + 254 717 180001
skype: kukubopaul googletalk: pkukubo personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke personal twitter: @pkukubo
____________________ Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub
Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com>wrote:
Mr. Kukubo should know better than play PR on the list. Many of the Pasha centers are studs with no operation. We live in these villages and we see them.
The result of an independent audit done by Listers and spearheaded by Dr. Warigia Bowman is available in the archives of this list. It emerged that one major operator was claiming to sponsor the Digital Villages hence get exempted from the USF yet at the ground, the Digital Villages are NGOs (Nothing Going On). This amounts to stealing from me, the public. Actually, the operator should be compelled to pay arrears she owes to the USF. It's criminal.
@Madete, repeat projects are a ripe area for grand-corruption and looting public money. Postal cooperation of Kenya rolled out VSAT to all Post offices in Kenya, with cyber cafe like operations dubbed "Posta Surf". It was a total failure. That project became a white elephant and Kenya lost millions of shillings. My fellow citizens, let us be vigilant and eagle eyed for taxpayers money to be used wisely. There are people who are already salivating on thinking of this new project Mr. Madete is talking about. For the failed corrupt "Posta Surf" initiative scandal, please read the Mars Group report here
http://www.marsgroupkenya.org/corruption/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=29
Regards
Allow me to shed some light on this matter. On behalf Dr Ndemo, l chair
committee that was to utilize close to ksh 250 million- as part of the Economic stimulus Programme to role out the Digital Villages throughout
country. In conjunction with the PCK the progamme would cover select Post Offices and later cover all of them. This was in line with the wider objective of reaching out to the rest of the country as the Government embarked on the 'one stop shop' concept of providing services in line with the Constitutions devolved system (indeed a team from PCK went to Brazil to benchmark on this). Unfortunately due to time constraints in the preparations, the funds were not utilized by the time the budget was revised. The funds were withdrawn. The committee is still in place and hopefully the funds will be made available next financial year to actualize the dream of having digital villages in all the post offices in the country. Madete
On Thursday, April 25, 2013, Warigia Bowman wrote:
Dear colleagues and Mr. Kukubo
I just want to clarify that the pasha centers do exist, and I have viewed them. As of my last audit, many were not yet in operation, so we may need to go do another review.
With regards to the safaricom digital villages, based on my research, which many on this list participated in, it is indeed fair to say that they do not really exist, other than as private cybers with a banner. It is possible that massive improvements have been made, in which case lets go out in the field this summer!
Mr. Kukubo, perhaps you need to make a strong effort to brand the
separately from the digital villages.
Take care, and kind regards,
Warigia
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe@gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'blongwe@gmail.com');>
wrote:
Hmm, seems to me that COFEK's credibility is decaying rapidly with
kind of false allegations, one would expect a consumer body to embrace the highest standards for integrity, honesty, fairness....but apparently......
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Paul Kukubo <pkukubo@ict.go.ke> wrote:
Dear listers
The article by COFEK (Consumer Federation of Kenya) on their website,
the impression that digital villages do not exist. The Kenya ICT Board wishes to correct this position.
The Kenya ICT Board has committed funding for 65 Pasha centres to date across the country. For a factual update, we urge listers to visit. http://www.ict.go.ke/index.php/digitalinclusion. We will update this even further with an announcement we are making on Monday to further develop these centres.
The Kenya ICT Board will write to COFEK formally providing further information in the public interest on the basis of COFEK's stated goal as stated on their website "advocacy is based on authentic information as backed by continuous research."
We have finalised our 6 year report on the Kenya ICT Board which is currently being printed. we shall upload a digital copy onto our website, in the next week or so. This will make an exciting read on the sector.
My view as the outgoing Kenya ICT Board CEO is that Dr Ndemo provided the vision, compeled us to seek a world class approach, set the tone of energetic execution, helped us cement partnerships in order to improve capacity, and focus on enterprise development, innovation and the ordinary citizen. He cautioned against getting too carried away in ICT dogma, but asked that we rather just get the job done. This was augmented with spirit of learning to pick up quickly from mistakes, (and many were made). There will be much debate, and indeed many things are left for the next team to do.
As a team, we gave this our very best effort and Dr Ndemo gave us a style of leadership that even in the best private sector environments, you will struggle to find. (I will write more extensively on this later.)
We reaped a leadership dividend in the sector, with support from the highest level of government. On this score there can be no debate. The country is much better for it
We pray this carries on.
Asante
Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, (outgoing), Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya
12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street
Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960 Fax: +254 20 2211962 website: www.ict.go.ke local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya twitter:@tandaaKENYA BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke
personal contacts _______________
Cell: + 254 717 180001
skype: kukubopaul googletalk: pkukubo personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke personal twitter: @pkukubo
____________________ Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub
Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment
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Paul, Thanks for your post, how many PASHA centers where setup/funded, where are they situated and what is the current status? I am not holding my breath for a response to this question In the spirit of transparency and accountability please share the Deloitte research reports produced since inception so that we are able to provide an informed opinion and thus avoid casual generalization. We have been down this road before and as is usual when dealing with you we hit a 12" wall with a crocodile infested moot. Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 ________________________________ From: Paul Kukubo <pkukubo@ict.go.ke> To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Friday, 26 April 2013, 0:18 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Cofek Article citing Digital Villages Kivuva Indeed some of the Kenya ICT Board supported Pasha Centres are struggling, while others are doing well, based on research that we conduct regularly with Deloitte. That is a separate discussion. I suggest you provide details of the "many villages that you live in" you refer to in your email. Pasha centres, ( branded PASHA) are NOT owned or operated by the Kenya ICT Board but rather by Kenyan wananchi out there. Most received one month of business plan and operational execution training from us prior to us selecting them. We trained over 1000 Kenyans nationwide before commencing this project. The Pasha model works in the following way: we advertise for potential entrepreneurs who have to submit a business plan for a loan that is administered by Family Bank at preferential interest. This is a commercial model intended to be self sustaining. I humbly suggest that you take the time to develop an informed opinion. Casual generalization would degenerate a useful discussion, which is otherwise worth having. Your email does not even convince me you Pasha centre managers demonstrate different levels of business maturity and come from different counties with different levels of business opportunity. They have varying levels of success. This is not unexpected. However, what we have on our website as a statement of fact is the progress report on this effort over the past 4 years. This is not playing PR (a statement I take particular exception to). Asante Paul Kukubo CEO Kenya ICT Board Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya 12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960 Fax: +254 20 2211962 website: www.ict.go.ke local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya twitter:@tandaaKENYA BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke personal contacts _______________ Cell: + 254 717 180001 skype: kukubopaul googletalk: pkukubo personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke personal twitter: @pkukubo ____________________ Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com> wrote: Mr. Kukubo should know better than play PR on the list. Many of the
Pasha centers are studs with no operation. We live in these villages and we see them.
The result of an independent audit done by Listers and spearheaded by Dr. Warigia Bowman is available in the archives of this list. It emerged that one major operator was claiming to sponsor the Digital Villages hence get exempted from the USF yet at the ground, the Digital Villages are NGOs (Nothing Going On). This amounts to stealing from me, the public. Actually, the operator should be compelled to pay arrears she owes to the USF. It's criminal.
@Madete, repeat projects are a ripe area for grand-corruption and looting public money. Postal cooperation of Kenya rolled out VSAT to all Post offices in Kenya, with cyber cafe like operations dubbed "Posta Surf". It was a total failure. That project became a white elephant and Kenya lost millions of shillings. My fellow citizens, let us be vigilant and eagle eyed for taxpayers money to be used wisely. There are people who are already salivating on thinking of this new project Mr. Madete is talking about. For the failed corrupt "Posta Surf" initiative scandal, please read the Mars Group report here http://www.marsgroupkenya.org/corruption/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=29
Regards
On 25/04/2013, Bruce Madete <madetebruce@gmail.com> wrote:
Allow me to shed some light on this matter. On behalf Dr Ndemo, l chair the committee that was to utilize close to ksh 250 million- as part of the Economic stimulus Programme to role out the Digital Villages throughout the country. In conjunction with the PCK the progamme would cover select Post Offices and later cover all of them. This was in line with the wider objective of reaching out to the rest of the country as the Government embarked on the 'one stop shop' concept of providing services in line with the Constitutions devolved system (indeed a team from PCK went to Brazil to benchmark on this). Unfortunately due to time constraints in the preparations, the funds were not utilized by the time the budget was revised. The funds were withdrawn. The committee is still in place and hopefully the funds will be made available next financial year to actualize the dream of having digital villages in all the post offices in the country. Madete
On Thursday, April 25, 2013, Warigia Bowman wrote:
Dear colleagues and Mr. Kukubo
I just want to clarify that the pasha centers do exist, and I have viewed them. As of my last audit, many were not yet in operation, so we may need to go do another review.
With regards to the safaricom digital villages, based on my research, which many on this list participated in, it is indeed fair to say that they do not really exist, other than as private cybers with a banner. It is possible that massive improvements have been made, in which case lets go out in the field this summer!
Mr. Kukubo, perhaps you need to make a strong effort to brand the pashas separately from the digital villages.
Take care, and kind regards,
Warigia
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe@gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'blongwe@gmail.com');>
wrote:
Hmm, seems to me that COFEK's credibility is decaying rapidly with these kind of false allegations, one would expect a consumer body to embrace the highest standards for integrity, honesty, fairness....but apparently......
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Paul Kukubo <pkukubo@ict.go.ke> wrote:
Dear listers
The article by COFEK (Consumer Federation of Kenya) on their website, http://www.cofek.co.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1529%3Awhy-ndemo-may-have-been-missed-on-the-ict-docket&catid=1%3Alatest-news&Itemid=62creates the impression that digital villages do not exist. The Kenya ICT Board wishes to correct this position.
The Kenya ICT Board has committed funding for 65 Pasha centres to date across the country. For a factual update, we urge listers to visit. http://www.ict.go.ke/index.php/digitalinclusion. We will update this even further with an announcement we are making on Monday to further develop these centres.
The Kenya ICT Board will write to COFEK formally providing further information in the public interest on the basis of COFEK's stated goal as stated on their website "advocacy is based on authentic information as backed by continuous research."
We have finalised our 6 year report on the Kenya ICT Board which is currently being printed. we shall upload a digital copy onto our website, in the next week or so. This will make an exciting read on the sector.
My view as the outgoing Kenya ICT Board CEO is that Dr Ndemo provided the vision, compeled us to seek a world class approach, set the tone of energetic execution, helped us cement partnerships in order to improve capacity, and focus on enterprise development, innovation and the ordinary citizen. He cautioned against getting too carried away in ICT dogma, but asked that we rather just get the job done. This was augmented with spirit of learning to pick up quickly from mistakes, (and many were made). There will be much debate, and indeed many things are left for the next team to do.
As a team, we gave this our very best effort and Dr Ndemo gave us a style of leadership that even in the best private sector environments, you will struggle to find. (I will write more extensively on this later.)
We reaped a leadership dividend in the sector, with support from the highest level of government. On this score there can be no debate. The country is much better for it
We pray this carries on.
Asante
Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, (outgoing), Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya
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participants (6)
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Brian Munyao Longwe -
Bruce Madete -
Kivuva -
Paul Kukubo -
robert yawe -
Warigia Bowman