[kictanet] Public Sector Roles (activities, motives & challenges) Day 10 of 10
John Walubengo
jwalu at yahoo.com
Fri May 30 11:23:10 EAT 2008
Its never too late Mike,
all should feel free to say something for today is the last day of this discussion.
walu.
--- On Fri, 5/30/08, MEldon at symphony.co.ke <MEldon at symphony.co.ke> wrote:
> From: MEldon at symphony.co.ke <MEldon at symphony.co.ke>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Public Sector Roles (activities, motives & challenges) Day 8 of 10
> To: jwalu at yahoo.com
> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>, kictanet-bounces+meldon=symphony.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> Date: Friday, May 30, 2008, 10:46 AM
> Hope I'm not too late...
>
> Two issues that I have pushed over the years:
>
> 1. It's not enough to run general IT literacy
> programmes for public
> servants. It's not even enough to train people in how
> to use specific
> applications. What is needed beyond that is a sufficient
> appreciation at
> senior levels of this thing called 'ICT Strategy'
> (cost and benefits,
> RoI... a BUSINESS approach). And as part of this how the
> ICT strategy must
> be aligned to overall organisational strategy. (Now that
> really is a
> minority sport!)
>
> 2. When most organisations look at costs and benefits of
> introducing ICT
> systems, they tend merely to do so at the global or
> departmental or
> functional levels. What tends to be missing is how the
> individual at the
> desktop is affected. What is the benefit to them? Too often
> none have been
> built in, and it's just new perceived and/or actual
> disadvantages - loss of
> control, just feeding the system without getting
> information back, need for
> greater discipline etc.
>
> Mike Eldon
>
>
>
>
> From: bitange at jambo.co.ke
>
>
>
> To: meldon at symphony.co.ke
>
>
>
> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
> <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>
>
>
> Date: 05/28/2008 03:20 PM
>
>
>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Public Sector Roles
> (activities, motives & challenges) Day 8 of 10
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Perhaps you can help here because most ordianary civil
> servants wrongly
> think that ICTs would replace them. This is where we have
> greatest
> resistance to ICTs. There have been numerous training
> programmes for all
> cadres in the civil service but until everybody accepts
> that ICTs are
> enablers, we shall continue to see sabotage from within.
> We should learn
> from Ugandans how they quickly implemented their
> Intergarted Financial
> Management Information System. It has taken us more than
> eight years and
> still we cannot claim to havinfg implemented the system.
> Majority of the
> users only see the negative side.
>
> We require significant social transformation in order to
> achieve some of
> these initiatives. A little of benevolent dictatorship may
> come in handy.
> The Malaysians and Singaporeans did it and it worked. A
> democratic
> approach will not take us anywhere. We cannot do anything
> logical in
> terms of procurement of ICT products after implementing a
> flawed law.
>
> Ndemo.
>
>
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanx to Barrack and Ndemo for your comments on Civil
> > Society and Public sector. We still have one more day
> on
> > the Public Sector role.
> >
> > My take is thatI think the Govt has kicked off in the
> right
> > direction with regard to initiatives for ICT4D.
> However,
> > my feeling is that most of these have remained at a
> fairly
> > high-level. Am not quite sure that the vision and
> urgency
> > experienced at the top is shared at the bottom ranks
> of the
> > Public Service.
> >
> > More specifically, I am not quite sure that the
> odinary
> > public servants have the right disposition to embrace
> ICTs.
> > Finally, I doubt if there are sufficient, if any
> > incentives to socialise the wider public service
> (teachers,
> > nurses, police, chiefs and others) into the
> information
> > age. It looks we do have the right strategies but lack
> an
> > 'implementation strategy' i.e. we know what
> needs to be
> > done but maybe shallow on how it would be done....i
> stand
> > to be corrected.
> >
> > walu.
> >
> > --- Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Members Commisioning of the e-government
> Secretariat,
> >> formation of the ICT
> >> board and liberization of the ICT sector have all
> been
> >> fantastic
> >> initiatives, however we need to strengthen Public
> private
> >> Sector
> >> collaborations if we are to realise more gain, key
> areas
> >> that we may focus
> >> on are Entrepreneurship training so that we may
> tap into
> >> the benefits of new
> >> technologies before they are obsolete, we must
> stop
> >> experimenting with
> >> technology and do business using technology, this
> brings
> >> in another aspect
> >> POLICY, there is likely to be a paradigm shift in
> the
> >> way businesses are
> >> run if we are to fully embrace technology as a
> matter of
> >> fact some
> >> businesses might totally disappear as a result of
> >> technology whereas new
> >> ones will emerge, the problem is that there are
> lots of
> >> boardroom games that
> >> stand in the way of enactment of some of this
> policies
> >> which must be dealt
> >> with may be we need some online mass action, the
> future
> >> looks bright but it
> >> is important to coordinate all ict4d initiatives
> whether
> >> fronted by
> >> Government, private or public sector
> >>
> >> On 5/27/08, John Walubengo <jwalu at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Morning all,
> >> >
> >> > Today we wish to turn our attention to what
> the Public
> >> > (Govt) is doing with regard to ICT4Ds.
> >> >
> >> > >From my observation, there has been quite
> some impetus
> >> in
> >> > the last 5years or so on this regard. What
> comes to
> >> mind
> >> > in no particular order, is the commissioning
> of the
> >> eGovt
> >> > Secretariate and the ICT Board, the
> liberalization of
> >> ICT
> >> > sector through the Kenya Comm Act 1999, the
> gazettement
> >> of
> >> > the the National ICT Policy, the
> Privatisation of the
> >> > national Telco Provider and the initiation of
> the
> >> TEAMs,
> >> > submarine project.
> >> >
> >> > It would be nice for members to share their
> opinion on
> >> the
> >> > activities and challenges surrounding the
> above and
> >> other
> >> > government initiatives.
> >> >
> >> > The floor is open, we have only today Tue May
> 27th and
> >> > tomorrow on this.
> >> >
> >> > walu.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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