[kictanet] [!! SPAM] Re: Bitange for President? Driving Knowledge Economy? OnlineInterview with PS Ndemo

Wed Aug 3 12:20:42 EAT 2011

Thank you Grace:

Many thanks to Dr Ndemo, too for agreeing to field questions. I find him
very accessible and for this he has my "vote". From the outset, though
meaningless, I am not sure I want to contribute to a forum called "Bitange
for President" again. Most of us seem to erroneously believe that we can
only make greta change by being at the top. Sample this - Twitter
co-founder, Jack Dorsey had the idea of the social site at age 8! Today,
Twitter has been valued at an estimated Sh736 Billion. He didn't think of
being a President, he is not, he might never be but there he is - he has
literally revolutionized the world. The list of Jack Dorseys is too long to
enumerate.

Please allow me a kind suggestion: The way you have structured the ongoing
discussion is either confusing or complicated for any keen follower, to say
the least. Even if there will be a summarized report at the end, you run the
risk of mis-interpreting/diluting his ideas. I wish you had settled for the
concretized sector/thematic approach - half or a day dedicated for each. You
can have all the goodies that Dr Ndemo promises but they can never be
sustained in an environment of corruption, poor or non-existent wealth
creation incentives and innovations, bad leadership, poor market regulation,
unprotected consumers, illiteracy and diminished democracy/public
participation. 

On broad perspectives, let's not only focus on good PR of his long list of
achievements. We would have lost the good opportunity. Could we request Dr
Ndemo to focus on what has not worked in his Ministry, why and what he
intends to do about them. We should only move out of his docket, MOIC after
we address these issues. ICT politicization of key regulatory and policy
decisions and processes is another area of concern. Can we have him adopt
twitter like brief answers? What are the possibilities of having him at the
end of the online interviews - go on livestream video with summary of issues
and especially on way forward?

At the risk of sounding selfish, Dr Ndemo appears well meaning for
consumers. But he may be rightly accused of stopping at complaining (like
the rest of us?) on a number of issues eg on internet tariffs when he once
said ISPs were earning 2000% in profits. Consumer institutional
representation in MOIC organs (including regulator CCK) and projects is
almost non-existent. There is no ICT Consumer Policy to date. As such
consumer privacy, complaint redress mechanism remain unclear even as the
Communications Tribunal remains idle for the better part of its life. 

Thanks again for the opportunity to interview Dr Ndemo. I hope you can also
have the regulator come here, too, soon. 

Kind regards,

Stephen Mutoro

www.cofek.co.ke 

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Subject: [!! SPAM] Re: [kictanet] Bitange for President? Driving Knowledge
Economy? OnlineInterview with PS Ndemo

Listers
So far you have seen what Dr. Ndemo has said. Like Barrack has said and in
response to Dr. Ndemo's request, lets please interract freely without
confining the debate to themes. We will however produce a report at the end
of the discussion and will try and identify themes that will emerge.

Dr Ndemo, please keep going....and like Washington has said, you may at the
end of the debate want to share your ideas with Prof. Ole Kiyapi :)

Edith would like you to respond to the concern of digital signal
distribution in Kenya, while Mburu has concerns around how you will convince
Treasury to part with the funds to support/realize your vision.

Kind Regards
Grace

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> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 10:52:54 +0300
> From: bitange at jambo.co.ke
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Bitange for President? Driving Knowledge Economy?
OnlineInterview with PS Ndemo
> CC: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> To: ggithaiga at hotmail.com
> 
> Kanja,
> Affordable Health will be an outcome of the strategies that I have laid
> here. This is how it will work.
> 
> Infrastructure in my strategy mean provision of some of the promises made
> in the constitution including housing. We shall design eco houses in the
> range of Ksh. 100,000 and start implementation from Northern Kenya where
> our citizens are literallty sleeping outside. From the census, there are
> about 200,000 households here. These homes will be in urban set up where
> we shall supply all utilities. Through incentives, encourage other
> investments such as solar energy, retail stores, dried beef industry,
> packaged camel and cow milk etc.
> 
> Every person will have a smart ID which will be used in all transactions
> (Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for end to end government). Through the
> realigned policy the Government will no longer be involved in releif food
> supply (they have never been good at this world over). Assistance to
> those who will not have food will be provided in voucher form through the
> smart ID. They will then redeem their points at the retail store (Uchumi
> possibly)and purchase the food of their choice.
> 
> Since the people will have better housing with utilities and food of their
> choice, health problems will be minimized thus reallocating funds from
> curative to preventive health care. This is why I say Affordable health
> is an outcome of dealing with other related variables.
> 
> We have spent more than Ksh. 12 billion to mitigate against hunger in
> Northern Kenya on an emergency. The solution I propose will cost Ksh. 40
> billion but you will never here of hunger or feel the shame of being
> Kenyan again. You recall we can recover the same amount through
> e-procurement. Other savings will be utilized to scale up improved
> livelihood for all Kenyans.
> 
> In other parts of the country we shall mob up the youth and take them to
> the new mega projects of Lamu and the rail links (this is what China and
> US did when they had a youth bulge) to build infrastructure that will
> ensure sustained job security. The resources will come from the KKV and
> converted to provide sustainable projects. Because of the wide spread
> wages and economies of scale, we can now provide cheap health insurance
> that will ensure affordable healthcare.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Ndemo.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Well done Bitange and I would like to add one more theme.
> > Affordable health care for all.
> > Cheers.
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > On Aug 3, 2011, at 5:27 AM, bitange at jambo.co.ke wrote:
> >
> > In summary,
> > Again hypothetically my major themes shall be:
> > Kwowledge for life
> > Infrastructure for Development
> > Food security (including Value addition)
> > Employment (create tons of it)
> >
> > One Kenya. Unity in diversity. Keep hope a live (borrowed from Rev.
> > Jesse Jackson).
> >
> > Ndemo.
> > Sent from my BlackBerryR
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com>
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> > Interview with PS Ndemo
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