[kictanet] Draft National ICT Policy Discussions Day 4 of 10: How to enhance Universal Service & Access

[Wangari Kabiru]

Blessed Tuesday!

Universal Service
i. Extend the outlook to serve all people
Optimal level of access and value is elusive. 
We should still consider all to be either unserved or under served ICT wise

e.g for universal healthcare, each national is entitled to some basic health at public facilities. Then when in need just by being a national, there is levels of access. Then options of national insurance are available.

b. Extending the above further is to have an outlook of an insurance scheme. Capitation model with varied levels for all to utilise on ICT services of choice.

ii. Extend utilisation beyond giving "direct telcos services"
To key national needs including
- Healthcare; herein grows eHealth 
- Education; herein grows eLiteracy
Here is making practical to country situation (recall air ticket levy to fund some diseased)

iii. Have a true national carrier
Business interests and public good take different tangents.
Private sector cannot be compelled willingly forever to serve public interests without a tradeoff that bites at he same public.

iv. Back to the basics of industrialisation
Use to develop industries for what the ICT sector needs to grow locally and export.
Shift from consumerism.

v. Apply highly to research and awards
Fellowships to researchers and subsidies to new budding ventures and new ideas (from new and existing entities)

vi. Civil Society
The same way civil society applies itself to provision of "basic needs", there should be increasingly engagement as players in ICTs. 
The Inclusion ceiling in financial services was broken by innovations by NGOs not private sector.
Just as we have radio stations driven NGOs to ensure inclusion of certain groups through access to information. This would mean for instance a telecom run by an NGO.
This would mean an ICT industrial needs manufacturing plant by an NGO or consortium.



Be blessed.

Regards/Wangari

On Jun 28, 2016 07:43, Barrack Otieno via isoc wrote: > > Listers, > > We inadvertently skipped the day 4 discussion since it was to be done > over the weekend (Saturday 25 June 2016). As such we will back track > so that we can tackle the topics which are very important. > > Today we focus on the following topics > > *Universal Access (Infrastructure) > > *Universal Service (PWD) > > *Affordable Internet broadband Services > > *Affordable User Devices > > *Public e-Literacy > > The Background > Universal service principles are based on the fact that all citizens > are entitled to basic communication rights.  In other words, the > government is obliged to ensure that communication signals reach all > Kenyans, irrespective of their income levels, remote localities, lack > of (e)literacy and/or disabilities (e.g. the blind/deaf/etc). > > There was recent access-gap study commissioned by the regulator which > confirmed that a large number of Kenyan localities are underserved > http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/walubengo/-/2274560/3155384/-/l3vdw8z/-/index.html. > > How can we change the situation? > > Thank you > > -- > Barrack O. Otieno > +254721325277 > +254733206359 > Skype: barrack.otieno > PGP ID: 0x2611D86A > > _______________________________________________ > isoc mailing list > isoc at lists.my.co.ke > http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc
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