[kictanet] ICT Authority?

Wed Apr 23 15:26:38 EAT 2008

By the way I have no objection to an ICT Authority....I think such an agency (RITA) has done wonders for Rwanda, founded by none other than Dr. J Oketch the current boss at eGovt.  But such a body must come in to play an over-arching role over the others rather than focus on a sub-theme as it were...maybe i will take a look at the KEPSA proposal.

walu.

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First, it's a shame that e-Gov and GITS have not merged. They should, and
in a 'neutral' ministry like OP.

Then, as far as the coordination need is concerned I see a number of
options:
- have one of the bodies convene the others to handle issues where more
than one is involved
- expand the mandate of one of the existing ones to cover the need
identified by Waudo
- the option mooted by Waudo

Mike Eldon

  From:       "waudo siganga" <emailsignet at mailcan.com>                                                                

  To:         meldon at symphony.co.ke                                                                                    

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  Date:       04/22/2008 05:56 PM                                                                                      

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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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