[kictanet] ICT Authority?

Wed Apr 23 16:49:40 EAT 2008

Unless the disparate units and departments are collapsed under the ICT
Authority, like Walu, I would worry about creating more institutions.
Already coordination and coherence is a problem. 

Are their any lessons and experiences from RITA or similar institutional
arrangements? Worth learning from others rather than assuming that this is
the best way to go with limited evidence.

Can the proposal be shared in this list?

Edith

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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

  Cc:         KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
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  Date:       04/22/2008 05:56 PM

  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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