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

[Daniel Waweru]

If it is true that promotion of civil servants depends on reading Vision
2030, then that strikes me as quite illiberal. Vision 2030 is a fairly
ideological document, as well as one far more closely identified with one
of the coalition partners than with the other. Promotion in what is
supposed to be a neutral civil service should not depend on mastering
ideological, or apparently partisan, documents.

Daniel Waweru
www.kenyaimagine.com
Art and analysis; debate and opinion.


On 14 December 2011 10:26, 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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