[kictanet] Holding our Leaders Accountable

[Alex Gakuru]

I encourage us not tire in seeking ways to involve legislators in ICT but we
are not afraid to critise them if and whenever they fail us terribly.
Aspirants you embarrassed consumers?

Inexcusable are unapologetic absence in the digital age where the politicans
usually show off fancy communication gadgets.... considering the effort
everyone put in, and most appreciated Eng. Rege's preparations input
contribution and his early arrival.

...and these politicians are always so harsh at criticizing others yet when
they are called to state their vision they all chicken out. They deserve a
thorough thrashing for the embarrassment they caused to the country and the
tuned in world which now has a better understanding of the political
protagonists qualities.

But interesting questions were being asked in your view of your absence
yesterday:-

1. Do political leaders thrive better amidst information-deprived rural
people?
2. How much of their CDF funds went to ICT projects?
3. Has it been over-assumed that rural means poor or "stupid"?
4. Do ICT disinterested MPs hope to fit well in Hon. Kaparo's ICT-compliant
parliament?
5. What and how else could the network deliver these politicians into the
ICT world?

It was wonderful Kanja transformed local content challenges into an
opportunity. "Everyday, the media, is always busy destroying old content
because of storage problems...." (ask the media houses to for the content
and start a "K-Tube"? ;-)

Thank you Edith for sharing community wireless access point built using
ordinary tins. I am intersted in  ....

Thanks to KICTANET, KENIC, KDN, MEDIA OWNERS and notable patient press who
chose to stay on despite politicians failing to turn up. Cover more stor

October 2004 draft ICT Policy decried absence of high level ICT leadership
but fortunately the last year gazetted policy speaks of protecting this
(new-found) leadership. In view of this, I  am obliged to thank President
Kibaki for assuming high level ICT leadership the successive ICT directives
in 2006 ( e.g. fibre, digitisation... )

So, I give credit where it is due?

Alex Gakuru

On 5/17/07, Lucy Kimani <lkimani at comnews.co.ke> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I am just venting on the dismal performance of our aspiring presidential
> candidates, I have noticed a trend where those in leadershipship positions
> let alone those aspiring for the same confirm their attendance to a
> certain function and then not show up or best case scenario show up 2-3
> hours late.  I keep asking myself why do we as Kenyans accept this
> behavior, and I am at a loss!
>
> Actually, my pesa nane is that we as the citizens need to start demanding
> accountability in that when one says they will attend a function then they
> should keep to their word, after all why are electing people whose word
> doesnt count for much?  Additionally, most of us also have busy work lives
>
> and the fact that we were willing to stop what we were doing to sit down
> to hear what these aspiring candidates have to say about ICT is a
> testament to how important we feel ICT to be to the country.
>
> I am one for making strong statements, and a one page ad expressing our
> displeasure and questioning why the candidates are scared of facing a
> serious group of citizens wanting to know where each of them stands in ICT
> would be in order!  I am sure if it was one of those meetings where fans
> are shouting at the top of their voices, and no one is asking any serious
> questions they probably would show up, we need to start demanding more
> from our politicians!
>
> Just my thoughts!
>
> LK
>
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