[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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