[kictanet] Vision 2030: ICT and Other Sectors Converged (Day 2)

[Barrack Otieno]

Mr. Kibati,
I base my questions on the paragraph below how will be be able to
monitor how each region is perfoming?, i think the recently launched
Open Data platform would be an ideal tool to help with this. I look
forwad to your thoughts on the same

Thank you

The Economic Pillar of Vision 2030 seeks to improve the prosperity of
all regions of the country and all Kenyans by achieving a 10% Gross
Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate by 2012. Within the Medium Term
Plan 2008-2012, six priority sectors that make up the larger part of
Kenya’s GDP (57%) and provide for nearly half of the country’s total
formal employment were targeted.
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Barrack Otieno
<otieno.barrack at gmail.com> wrote:
> On the economic pillar bwana Kibati, it is said wealth is in what you
> keep as opposed to what you spend, in Europe i see deliberate efforts
> to close down towns during the weekend and open up the space for small
> scale traders, considering the fact that our market is 70% Kadogo are
> arrangements like this envisaged, the Maasai Markets in Hurligham and
> behind the Supreme Court, can we see more of this in Kinungi
> (Vegetables) Kiserian (Goats), just a wild thought i wonder the
> implication of this on the economy?
>
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am quite afraid to engage, as like majority of the population and
>> politicians, I am yet to read up on Vision 2030 and its many pillars (though
>> civil servants are required to have knowledge of it before promotion).
>> However , I am keen on a few issues, and not sure how Vision 2030 touches on
>> them
>>
>> Ease of doing business - almost 50 years since independence, government and
>> especially local government are biggest hindrances when it comes to doing
>> business. Are there plans to make it easy to start a business, like even
>> make it free (free licenses) and guarantee site security (for small kiosks,
>> like allocated areas) with the aim that the business will be taxed later on
>> . Free licensing with penalties for those without means we have an idea of
>> number of businesses, which we can tax after 1 year and so on. More
>> businesses means more tax and more employment.
>> Agriculture - our agriculture is still primitive, and for all intents we may
>> still be using stone age tools. How do we move to mass production and
>> economies of scale, mechanize agriculture for small scale holders?
>> Research & manufacturing - we do almost 0 research in this country, meaning
>> we import what is often referred to as "superior technology" from Europe
>> (Germany) and other countries. Why not have universities especially tackle
>> the issue of processing agricultural produce. We also need agricultural
>> produce processing industries to serve our hinterland. Kenya is a small
>> agricultural nation compared to Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan which have
>> more arable land (we can outdo them if we take irrigation seriously)
>> Security - there is virtually no security in this country, seeing that a
>> gang can comfortably set up a toll point on the countries most modern
>> highway (Thika road) and "tax" every motorist Kshs 1,000 , unperturbed. The
>> scenario is repeated across the country where it becomes almost impossible
>> to conduct any activity past dusk.
>>
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