[kictanet] Article on Kenya ICT Policy-publication version FOR YOU!

[Wamuyu Gatheru]

Wairigia,
I have just read your work (although I had heard of it). Your article is well written and even entertaining. However, there is a significant error on Process (pg 108) where you say "The 2004 decision of the Min of Info and Comm to release to the public, and then solicit and incorporate public comment into the Kenya ICT policy represents the first time that the Kenyan govt has ever solicited comments on any policy in any sector." 

Since the 2001 PRSP process, participatory planning is the norm rather than the exception. There is a draft GOK participatory policy. Some conclusive participatory policy processes I can think of since 2002 include water, public procurement, insurance and capital mkts. A 6 year highly participatory and politically contentious land policy was recently passed. Then we have Constitutional reform where we go to another referendum shortly - that may change institutions and politics dramatically. 

I was also wondering, but have no evidence, if Kenya gets more from elements of policy than its neighbours (that may more than make up for Kenya's comparative time lag in policy dev.). Kenya's Mpesa, Kenswitch (bank interconnecitivity), news SMS service, electronic bill payments etc may be unmatched in the region.

regards,
Wamuyu
P/S The low universal access implementation, relative to our neighbours, is significant food for thought



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From: warigia bowman <warigia at gmail.com>
To: wamuyulearn at yahoo.co.uk
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Sent: Fri, 30 April, 2010 20:28:06
Subject: [kictanet] Article on Kenya ICT Policy-publication version FOR YOU!

Dear colleagues 

Here is the article on Kenya's ICT policy which is going to press today. The correct citation is 

Bowman, Warigia, "Governance, Technology and the Search for Modernity in Kenya," William and Mary Policy Review 1 (April 2010): 87-116. 

Please CITE the article if you use it, or dispute it, or think about it in your work. i tried to cite every article by everyone that was published in idrcs books on this, READ THE ENDNOTES to find your name.  

HIGHLIGHTS:  footnote 4 i say thank you to everyone i can fit. p. 110- long discussion of kictanet and KIF. p. 97, rege and ndemo and okech are great, p. 100 waema and getao, p. 102, the BEST PART mucheru fights back against tuju, 103, alice becomes CCK commissioner. 

i hope you like it, and if you have corrections or complaints, you can send them to me offline as i prepare my book manuscript. 

Yours with DEEP gratitude to KIF and kictanet, Warigia
-- 
Dr. Warigia Bowman
Assistant Professor 
The Department of Public Policy Leadership
The University of Mississippi
107 Odom Hall
University, MS 38677

URL: http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/leadership/index.html
PHONE: 662-915-1904
EMAIL: mwbowman at olemiss.edu



      
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