[kictanet] Independence of CCK?
waudo siganga
emailsignet at mailcan.com
Mon Jul 28 20:28:26 EAT 2008
Hi Brian - I am intrigued by your announcement praising the
"independence" of the CCK. I would like to put your assertions to
debate. I am not sure how you define "independence". To me it
means the organization is not controlled by any of its
stakeholders in its decision-making. So who are the stakeholders?
Sometime back it was only Government and some "private sector".
We have recently correctly included civil society. Maybe we need
to add the technical community as well as academia. I cannot
recall the provisions of the enabling instrument (Info and Comms
Act) but the point I would like to make is that all the reps of
the "stakeholders" on the Board are appointed BY THE GOVERNMENT.
I am open to correction but I cannot recall any point in time
when the private sector has been approached to nominate private
sector reps to the CCK Board. Perhaps same for other
stakeholders. If the resultant Board ends up being described as
"Independent" then perhaps my online dictionary has been hit hard
by a virus. Compare this with Government bodies like the Public
Procurement Oversight Authority. The enabling instrument, Public
Procurement and Disposals Act 2005 clearly sets forth how the
governing organs like the Advisory Board are set up. There is a
bottom up participatory process where stakeholders, including
associations, are empowered by the Act to nominate persons they
know well from their industry spheres, and the Minister for
Finance makes his final selections only from the resultant list.
Somewhere in that Act the Computer Society of Kenya is listed
explicitly as a nominating agency. I have never seen such
provisions in the Board nomination processes for ICT related
public entities including the CCK. Maybe if you have better
information you can let me know the process how the Board of CCK
gets to be populated then hopefully I can believe you that CCK is
"independent".
Waudo
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:54:13 +0300, "Brian Longwe" <blongwe at gmail.com> sa
id:
Bw Wafula,
I can assure you - after many years of working with regulators
and operators across all of Africa Kenya has the most
independent, proffesional and focused regulatory authority.
Take a look at South Africa - capture - spells out what ICASA has
been under since inception
What country can you point to that has the levels of independence
and autonomy that CCK has.
Brian
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:15 AM, joseph wafula
<[1]muliaro at yahoo.com> wrote:
I congratulate Mr Njoroge for the appointment as DG for CCK,
however I still find the criteria used weak if what was in last
Saturday Nation newspaper was part of the criteria. What is clear
is that we are far from expecting CCK to meet WTO expectation of
an independent regulator. CCK is strongly under what I
term "political capture". The issue of salary one earns as a
prerequisite for short-listing for the post makes it even worse
in my view. What is the future for such criteria in the eyes of
all stakeholders particularly those in private sector, Foregn
Direct Investors etc? the question is, how can such officer be
free from government influence and special interest? Perhaps the
criteria of appointment need to be revised to give an independent
outfit and sectoral professionalsm to CCK DG position.
Dr Muliaro Wafula
Lecturer JKUAT & Director
Kenya E-governance and E-Content Backbone
--- On Wed, 7/23/08, Shem Ochuodho <[2]shemochuodho at yahoo.com>
wrote:
From: Shem Ochuodho <[3]shemochuodho at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] New DG
To: [4]muliaro at yahoo.com
Cc: "New Vision List" <[5]newvisionkenya at yahoogroups.com>,
"Robert Onyango-Alai" <[6]alai.robert at gmail.com>, "KICTAnet
ICT Policy Discussions" <[7]kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 6:14 AM
Dougi,
Of course Google (and its variants!) has never been the only
method to gauge qualification! Sadly, it is/they are the only
measure we have these days, especially for ICT!
Brian, I have never known in any profession what you say to be a
parameter for qualification or eligibility. Otherwise if it were,
wouldn't people like Atieno Ochola (gender notwithstanding),
Matano Ndaro, Michael Katundu, John Omo, and many more at CCK be
as much deserving?
Lest am asked: 'declare your interest', let me do so. The other
day I noticed an MP (who is either a present or past CCK
director) contribute to a motion on CCK without 'declaring
interest'; he was lucky to get away with it. I too applied for
this job, not because I expected to be considered, but to find
out if Kenya had changed; if we had moved on to a New Kenya where
it didn't matter where [in Kenya] you came from, who you knew,
whose son/daughter you had married, etc. We do not seem to have
learnt from the events of the turn of the [last] year! Kenya
appears to be sitting on a time bomb. Formation of the
coalition does not seem to have detonated it.
I have previously contended that Kenyan informaticians are
endangered. How right I am/was. The words 'mediocricity,
political expediency, ethnic bigotry' keep ringing on my ears.
So, it now appears we cannot find an eligible informatician to
lead CCK and we have to get an economist! I wait for the day, for
instance, when the IMF shall be headed by an informatician, or
one James Rege shall be Finance Minister! Short of the ICT
professionals organizing themselves and regaining their space, we
have a long wait.
Best rgrds,
Shem
--- On Mon, 7/21/08, Brian Munyao Longwe <[8]blongwe at gmail.com>
wrote:
From: Brian Munyao Longwe <[9]blongwe at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] New DG
To: "Shem Ochuodho" <[10]shemochuodho at yahoo.com>
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions"
<[11]kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 5:54 PM
IMHO Njoroge has been "the power behind the throne" for every one
of the
last DGs. I think he will make an excellent leader. His time has
come.
Congrats Bw Njoroge
Brian
Sent from my iPhone
On 21 Jul 2008, at 9:32 PM, "waudo siganga"
<[12]emailsignet at mailcan.com> wrote:
Anyone with background info on new DG? Google only has the
appointment dd 21/7
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:40:24 +0300, "Wainaina Mungai" <[13]wainaina at madei
nkenya.org> said:
I would assume Nyaki meant "effective engagement" rather than
"effective management"
Regards
Wainaina
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Catherine Adeya
<[14]elizaslider at yahoo.com> wrote:
Walu,
Your suggestion for 3.5 is good though I think it should simply
be 'How to organize Associations for Effective Managment with the
Government.
Unless I heard wrong, KTN Sunrise news this morning announced Mr
Charles Kinyanjui Njoroge as the new CCK DG.
Nyaki
----- Original Message ----
From: John Walubengo <[15]jwalu at yahoo.com>
To: [16]elizaslider at yahoo.com
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
<[17]kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 2:31:33 PM
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Forum Agenda - Lets focus
Harry,
Indeed it would be a public forum - but to what extend has the
message gone outside Nairobi given that most listservers have
subscribers in NRB? Maybe there's need to have the traditional
notice in the print media.
As for the Agenda proposed and copied below,
1. Forum Objectives
2. Association presentations
3. General Discussion
4. Way forward
I would add - 3.5. How to Organise the different Associations for
effective engagement with Govt.
walu.
nb: meanwhile, unconfirmed reports from my moles indicate that a
new DG for CCK has been unveiled. Anybody with such a copy?
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