[kictanet] ICT Authority?

Tue Apr 22 17:02:26 EAT 2008

Dear Walu and Waudo,

You may all be right in your positions, but structurally speaking, all the
agencies mentioned by Waudo ought to be under one administrative unit for
effective management of the sector. Here I have in mind an ICT Authority,
with functional boards/departments/agencies whatever we may want to call
them, that may include;

- GITS - Government ICT Implementation and Technical Support function
- eGov - eGov Policy and Strategic function
- ICT Board - Marketing and Promotion function
- CCK  - Regulatory function
- NCS - National ICT Policy Advisory function

Of course the mandate, functions and the legality of the institutions may
have to be revisited and probably aligned and sharpened for effective
operations. So the proposed authority can be used to converge the sector for
and building synergies across the said institutions for effective management
and service delivery.

Regards
Harry

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On Behalf Of waudo siganga
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:59 PM
To: harry at africanedevelopment.org
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] ICT Authority?

I would not see any overlap Walu as the bodies you have mentioned have
their specific mandates which are not encompassing the ICT universe.
Roughly I think ICT Board is for marketing (Min. of INFOCOM), GITS to
run Gov. ICT services (Min. of Finance) and the e-Secretariat to
implement the e-Gov. strategy (Office of Pres.). I am always open to
correction but meantime I am endorsing the KEPSA proposal.
Waudo

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:23:50 -0700 (PDT), "John Walubengo"
<jwalu at yahoo.com> said:
> Waudo, 
> 
> jst wondering if we dont already have enough overlaps
> between ICT Board, eGovt Secretariate, Government
> Info-Technology Services (GITS) and now you (KEPSA?) want
> to add on an ICT authority?
> 
> walu.
> 
> --- waudo siganga <emailsignet at mailcan.com> wrote:
> All this ultimately  suggests the necessity for the
> establishment of an oversight statutory
> ICT  Authority as is being proposed by KEPSA to the ongoing
> Government harmonization Committee.
> 
> 
> 
> --- waudo siganga <emailsignet at mailcan.com> wrote:
> 
> > Actually the Government never voted and was never called
> > upon to
> > vote on this issue. The Government only facilitated the
> > stakeholder committee at KEBS and national voting was
> > done by
> > members of that committee. The overall issue however
> > reiterates
> > what I see as a persistent problem regarding ICT and
> > Government:
> > ICT is wide and diverse, as well as being horizontal to
> > the
> > Governm
> ent structure. This sometimes leads to matters
> > that are
> > considered "ICT" not revolving around a central spoke in
> > the
> > Governemnt structure. So for example KEBS (and by
> > extension
> > issues of ICT standards) falls under the Ministry of
> > trade. In
> > the committee that handled OOXML there was no
> > representative from
> > the Ministry of Info and Comm., which was a mistake
> > because the
> > Government was a Stakeholder. All this ultimately
> > suggests the
> > necessity for the establishment of an oversight statutory
> > ICT
> > Authority as is being proposed by KEPSA to the ongoing
> > Government
> > harmonization Committee.
> > 
> > Waudo
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:14:43 -0700 (PDT), "Rebecca
> > Wanjiku" <rebeccawanji
> > ku at yahoo.com> said:
> > 
> >           Microsoft denies threatening to withdraw
> > funding
> > 
> > Microsoft East Africa has dismissed allegations that it
> > threatened to withdraw funding to Kenya if the government
> > did not
> > vote "yes" on OOXML.
> > 
> > Louis Otieno, Microsoft general manager in East and
> > Southern
> > Africa denied the allegations, saying that Microsoft EA
> > acted
> > appropriately.
> > 
> > "We've acted appropriately in all instances. And we are
> > grateful
> > that the National Body members engaged in this process
> > collaboratively and constructively," Otieno said.
> > 
> >
> http://computerworld.co.ke/articles/2008/04/21/microsoft-denies-t
> > hreatening-withdraw-funding
> > 
> >   Tel. 254 720 318 925
> >   blog:http://beckyit.blogspot.com/
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