[kictanet] Kibaki signs Bill into law

Mon Jan 5 16:40:01 EAT 2009

Am watching the situation as it evolves - like many of you are.  I did read Ndubi's earlier postings and I think they were quite balanced.

I am aware of the fury and anger from the media - but frankly speaking, I somewhat regret (truly remorseful) that am unable to share their fear (despite the bombardment).  Could it be because am relatively thrilled with offerings in the ICT section at the expense of the 'disaster' that awaits us within the Broadcast section? Plse someone, tell me once more...

Am watching the situation as it evolves...

walu.
nb: On a lighter note, Thabo Mbeki, former President, S.Africa signed their eTransaction Bill - electronically with his Digital Signature - I wonder if our man at hill did the same ;-)

--- On Sun, 1/4/09, Wainaina Mungai <wainaina at madeinkenya.org> wrote:

> From: Wainaina Mungai <wainaina at madeinkenya.org>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Kibaki signs Bill into law
> To: jwalu at yahoo.com
> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Date: Sunday, January 4, 2009, 9:51 PM
> Great suggestions,
> 
> I feel we can support the media but not in-toto.
> 
> First, it would be nice of the MoA et. al. to let go of the
> negative
> "Media Bill" campaign and engage constructively
> with other players.
> 
> Secondly, media should consider calling ICT advocacy
> personalities to
> a forum where they can share how ICT issues have
> successfully been
> incorporated without the animosity that is common when
> advocating for
> media issues.
> 
> I believe the media needs to feel secure that if their
> arguments are
> valid, they'll have our undivided support....issue by
> issue.
> 
> Wainaina
> 
> On 1/4/09, Bill Kagai <billkagai at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The 4 fundamentals;
> >
> > 1. When the Media fraternity suggested the bill be
> rejected in-toto, ICT
> > sector players felt this was akin to pouring the birth
> water together with
> > the baby. Personally I am happy the ICT issues did not
> go down the drain.
> > And I think that was what many of us were asking for.
> >
> > 2. The Media has genuine concerns as Haron Ndubi
> articulated in his legal
> > opinion on the probibity of the bill. However, the
> Media completely blacked
> > out ICT sector concerns during our campaign to have
> the bill signed. We even
> > went out of the way to show the remedies to the issues
> through the
> > miscelleneous amendment bill as suggested in the very
> fast legal opinion
> > whose author requested we keep his/her identity
> anonymous.
> >
> > 3. ICT players and especially Kictanet ought to prove
> it's the bigger wo/man
> > by showing solidarity in the front-line with our
> cousins in the Media
> > looking for a way out of the quagmire. We do not have
> to ignore them simply
> > because they refused to side with us in our campaign.
> >
> > 4. We are extremely careless in handling crisis. If
> you are familiar with
> > Newton's method of factoring variable change and
> the Monty Hall
> >
> Paradox<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_paradox>,
> > then we can analyse the options the President had
> mathematically.
> > 4a) Sign Bill
> > 4b) Don't Sign Bill
> > 4c) Do nothing and hold Kenyans in suspense.
> >
> > Each option had a 33% probability of being the
> 'right' decision. So,
> > assuming he had not seen the bill earlier since he was
> not the author and
> > had decided not to sign the bill following the Media
> owners petition, was it
> > wise to change his decision from 'Don't
> Sign' to 'Sign'??
> > Monty Hall
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_paradox>
> proves that
> > changing the decision increases the probability of
> getting it 'right' to
> > 66.6%. And that is proven by the fact that we [in ICT]
> feel content and
> > support ways of also making our brothers in the media
> achieve 'State of
> > Nirvana'. This bill will also give the Minister of
> Finance some head-up
> > before he dismisses innovations such as M-Pesa without
> prior knowledge.
> >
> > Conclusion;
> > For Makali, Openda, Kaikai and other leading Media
> personalities who I know
> > are on this list, why don't you invite ICT
> stakeholders in to your media
> > stations to engage Kenyans on what is good and what is
> bad in the ICT [not
> > Media] bill so that we can fight together against what
> we feel is not good??
> > This has nothing to do with whether the grand
> coalition will hold or not,
> > since neither the Right Honourable nor His Excellency
> drafted this bill. We
> > did and the buck should stop with us!!!
> >
> > --
> > Bildad Kagai
> > MD - MediaCorp Limited
> > Nairobi Stock Exchange Authorised Information Vendor
> > Suite B2, Tetu Court, State House Avenue
> > P. O. Box 20311 - 00200
> > Nairobi, Kenya
> > Tel. 254 20 272 8332
> > Fax. Rendered Obsolete
> > S - 1°17'13.8"
> > E - 36°48'22.7"
> > www.mediacorp.co.ke
> > ---
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:21 PM, alice
> <alice at apc.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Thank you Wainaina. Happy 2009.
> >> Now that the bill has been signed, what does the
> ICT industry think about
> >> this whole debate? especially those who have
> worked for such a long time
> >> with government to introduce legislation for the
> sector?
> >>
> >> best
> >> alice
> >>
> >>  Happy New Year for ICT development in Kenya.
> >>>
> >>> We can now look at the Media's concerns on
> the Kenya Communications
> >>> Act and support whatever  amendments may be
> justified.
> >>>
> >>> Wainaina
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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