[kictanet] We have failed Kenya, again

[Solomon Mburu]

Barrack and Crystal,

I do agree with Crystal that ICT has not been fully utilized to avert social
crises affecting Kenya. If only the government through the ICT Board can
make good use of ICT in averting the challenges facing Kenya, then we would
not be talking of corruprion and other ills affecting Kenya because the
integration of ICT just exists in s the minds of the young. The old chaps
have not fully inderstood the need to make it more effective apart from just
being used as a communication tool.
In the private sector, ICT has become one of the basic tools for running the
affairs of organizations.


There is an urgent need to prioritize ICT as a core function for closing the
gap between the informed and the non-informed.

Recently I was in West Pokot, amd Kacheliba Constituency, (Infact I passed
where K24 and KTN journalist were beaten) and couldn't believe the rate at
which development is lagging behind. The people there no nothing like ICT
and, being a place presented by the Minister for Communications, should be
the first place where ICT is flourishing, but with the famine, yur guess is
as good as mine!

In fact during the Post Election Violence, the Pokots were saying, *hiyo ni
vita ya Kenya... Kama ni vita ya kuchukua(*read *kuiba) ng'ombe,
tutaenda...!* and *'mbona kuchoma nyumba ya mtu ama kuuwa mtu badala ya
ng'ombe...!*

There is indeed a whole of debate on where ICT can be placed, but the
setting up of agenda in this has to be done with efficiency and sobriety!

Mburu

-- 
Man is a gregarious animal and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the
same way to the side of a hill!
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