[kictanet] Bitange for President? Driving Knowledge Economy? OnlineInterview with PS Ndemo

Thu Aug 4 14:37:45 EAT 2011

Dear Dr Ndemo

I would like to know a couple of things:-

(a) How will you stimulate and ensure that the biggest benefactor and user
of ICT, the Government, and who in turn would be a huge benefitor to
wananchi by availing the various services and benefits that you have
expounded on, embraces/uses national ICT infrastructure and platforms
optimally (even minimally to start with)

 (b) How will you align all government agencies to utilise single or common
national ICT infrastructure/platforms to avoid the duplication (triplication
and quadruplication too) of efforts by many to develop several similar
initiatives each to their own end.

An example will make my point lear:-

- Government owns huge stake in TEAMS. How many government agencies are
utilising or hooked to it and using it properly
- Is Kenya Police connected extensively (to itself and other key agencies)
- NOFBI: How many government and govt affiliated offices are on it and those
who are, how are they maximising their use
- When will we see the end of web based email addresses (yahoo, gmail etc)
as emails to key or all public servants

The point I am making is that the largest user of ICT is the Government,
however the services it utilises currently run on disparate platforms with
no common theme or link thus making redundant a lot of these platforms. Then
some just dont have even the basic of services and others have the facility
and do not use it all.

Your views?

Regards

SE

Sent from my iPhone

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:54 AM, <godera at skyweb.co.ke> wrote:

> Dr.Ndemo,
>
> Fantastic! These are exciting times. We must all come together to make this
> happen. As Government implements we must remain vigil and shout aloud when
> we
> see things going wrong. We just must!
>
> Gilda
>
> Quoting bitange at jambo.co.ke:
>
> > Gilda,
> > This is easy.  When I talked of end to end government, it means we shall
> have
> > a Public Key Infrastructure in place and intergrated registration system.
> > From birth, smart ID, death permits to KRA all will be intergrated. This
> will
> > eliminate all those vote when they are dead.
> >
> > Digitalization of all registries will create traceability at all levels.
> See
> > what has happened at Company Registry.  Revenue is up from 30 m to 80 m.
>  You
> > will no longer have temporally registered companies with unknown
> directors as
> > it happened with Anglo Leasing.
> >
> > Open data means that you will track public expenditure to the last
> shilling.
> > You will for example know what I have been paid and for what purpose.  Of
> > course I also talked about e-procurement and judiciary.
> >
> > With these measures we shall have dealt with 70% of corruption and begin
> to
> > restore trust in government.  After this you can start dealing with the
> > culture which accounts for 30% of corruption.  People must see justice
> and
> > fairness before you change systems.  Change is all about trust.
> >
> > We are all inherently corrupt and we are at a stage we can deal with the
> > desease once and for all.  The time is now and we must keep hope alive.
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> > Ndemo.
> >
> >
> > Sent from my BlackBerry®
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: godera at skyweb.co.ke
> > Date: Wed,  3 Aug 2011 13:47:54
> > To: <bitange at jambo.co.ke>
> > Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> > Subject: Re: [kictanet] Bitange for President? Driving Knowledge Economy?
> > OnlineInterview with PS Ndemo
> >
> > Dr.Ndemo,
> >
> > Could you provide us with substantial information on how you will use ICT
> to
> >
> > eliminate corruption taking into account the value change needed in our
> > society?
> > I believe corruption is the main reason this country is not where it
> should
> > be.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Gilda
> >
> >
> >
> > Quoting bitange at jambo.co.ke:
> >
> > > 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 BlackBerry®
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
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> > > To: <bitange at jambo.co.ke>
> > > Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> > > Subject: [kictanet] Bitange for President? Driving Knowledge Economy?
> > Online
> > >  Interview with PS Ndemo
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