[kictanet] Ndemo's Presidential Debate Final Report?

Fri Nov 4 11:56:17 EAT 2011

Thanks Edith for the briefs. I am sure they will be useful to alot of us and to this process.

Rgds
Grace

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From: eadera at idrc.or.ke
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 11:41:50 +0300
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Ndemo's Presidential Debate Final Report?
CC: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
To: ggithaiga at hotmail.com

Bwana Ndemo,

Glad that some of the innovative ideas emanating from this list are getting into Presidential manifestos. I hope the respective candidates realise that they will be held accountable to deliver on them and not just have them on paper!

On the summary report - which I noted you said does not fully reflect what you said, maybe it needs to be peered down to key messages "innovative ideas to move Kenya forward" and captured in an easy to follow manner (and you can review the brief and tweek it to reflect the ideas you generated).

I've attached 3 policy/lesson learned briefs to illustrate my point.

Edith
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International Development Research Centre | Centre de recherches pour le développement international
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From: kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.or.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke [kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.or.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of bitange at jambo.co.ke [bitange at jambo.co.ke]
Sent: 04 November 2011 10:28
To: Edith Adera
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Ndemo's Presidential Debate Final Report?

David,
I am happy that the message is getting across.  In the past six months,
two giant motor vehicle manufacturers have announced that they plan to set
up plants in Kenya.  I am very clear on ICT energy requirement knowing the
fact that many organizations want to set up regional hubs for cloud
services out of Kenya.  This means greater demand for energy.

The predictive model in use now uses variables such as economic growth
rates and has no provision for new and dynamic industries like ICT.  My
counterpart in Industrialization is equally frustrated as he rolls out
village industries.  We desperately need at least 3,000 MW plant
immediately and additional 2,000 MW on an annual basis.  Do not put the
required investment infront.  There are many investors who want to invest.

Let me take this opportunity to congraturate all listers since some of the
issues we have raised her are getting their way into political speeches.
Last night one of the real Presidential contenders said the "Knowledge
society is what we want to achieve in order to create jobs .... not KKV".
Although he did not attribute the remarks to Kictanet, I was happy that we
may be finally begining to develop issue based politics.  Let us do Kazi
Ya Mkono (KYM) in generating the ideas.

Anothor of those who have declared their interest in the presidency
requested me to inject some of "those things you are doing in the blogs"
into his manifesto.  Clearly he has not read them but may have been
informed by one of the listers.  Either way it is encouraging that the
discussions are not all in vain.

Regards

Ndemo.

> Dear Dr. Ndemo,
>
> Thank you for being one of the mpost accessible and forthright top
> civil servant in our beloved Kenya. I will restrict my comments only
> on energy. You say....
>
>> For this to work we must first deal with energy as I said as a
>> prerequisite.
>
> 100% with you here as energy is an enabler not only for realizing
> V2030 goals but basically to meet the MDG so that our people have a
> decent life.
>
> Last time I attempted to engage, you nicely challenged us to watch
> 'Field of Dreams'  whose theme paraphrased for the subject matter is
> "If you build energy generation capacity, it will be consumed".  It
> was pleasant too that you repeated the message when we held the 2nd
> National Energy Conference last month at KICC being modest when
> requesting a minimum of 500 MWe for Konza smart city.
>
> The ONE KENYA, POTENTIAL AND POSSIBILITIES…write up misses important
> matters discussed. I will use only one area. This is my beef with
> point 10....  Energy
>
> For Konza Smart City as an example, it will be essential for the
> industries there to have firm power available. This can come from
> burning oil (which is too expensive now as we import it and the
> petroleum industry is conveniently confused so as to serve vested
> interests), burn coal (and in Kitui we have reserves that can be
> exploited to provide potentially above 2,000 MWe) and/or go nuclear
> (our Least Cost Power Development Plan (LCPDP) aims to realize 1,000
> MWe in 2012). Using futuristic architecture and smart grid all
> buildings at Konza city and future ones should utilize natural light
> and tap into solar energy. The latter can be extended to all future
> houses constructed for residential and other purposes and again using
> smart grid owners would use what they can consume and sell to
> distribution companies (sadly at the moment only KPLC is a distributor
> although Energy Act of 2006 encourages and provides an enabling
> environment for other distributors to step forward.
>
> Just for the audience here firm power can not be provided by solar,
> wind, hydro etc. for example because this sources are not 100%
> available as industry needs electricity 24/7.
>
> In conclusion, those 5 points need to be increased please to include
> what we have in the LCPDP for firm power i.e.
>
> 1. geothermal energy 5,040 MWe (3,780 MWe  to 5,600 MWe)
> 2.  nuclear energy 4,000 MWe (3,000 Mwe to 9,000 MWe)
> 3.  coal energy 2,400 MWe ( 1,200 MWe to 3,900 MWe)
>
> The values in brackets are the low to high scenario cases. Wind we
> have for high case scenario 2,000 MWe and the grand total capacity for
> high case scenario is 26,480 MWe. If we factor in reserve margin of
> not less that 15% we have to generate 30,452 MWe by 2030.
>
> I have to admit that your projection that we need in excess of 40,000
> MWe to be a middle level economy is spot on but have to confess my
> team member on the LCPDP has not been able to convince the others to
> buy into the idea....but we are still discussing. At the moment we are
> outnumbered and out flanked but we know we are on the right side of
> history and shall eventually prevail.
>
> All the best.
>
> David
>
>
> On 11/1/11, bitange at jambo.co.ke <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:
>> Grace,
>> Although the manifesto has the ingredients of "my Presidency" it is not
>> coherent.  My main objective was to create a knowledge society where
>> science becomes the centre point of our development.  With Internet
>> everywhere in another few months, we can easily begin to use Internet as
>> a
>> development tool that will not only propel our country into a service
>> economy but also help create unprecedented efficiencies in government.
>>
>> As you are aware capitalism is under the greatest test world over and
>> there seems to be lack of leadership from traditional ideologues.  It is
>> a
>> great chance for us to show the way since we do not have legacy issues
>> as
>> it relates to ideology.  Just like Franklin Rosefelt did during the
>> great
>> depression, there is need to weave a bit of socialism into capitalism.
>> By
>> this I mean we shall take care of three most important social problems
>> of
>> our time.  This is education, health and housing.  We shall make
>> Internet
>> a human right issue then pumb lots of content through it to schools and
>> create a level playing field for all.
>>
>> For this to work we must first deal with energy as I said as a
>> prerequisite.  Resources to undertake these projects will come from the
>> efficiencies we create in government when we automate every record and
>> open up thegovernment through the open data initiative.  Here you will
>> create an environment for innovation.  Further you create jobs
>> especially
>> in the BPO sector.  Other areas will include gaming, software
>> development
>> and animation.
>>
>> Much of the animated content would focus on all syllabi of all African
>> countries for educational content.  Of the $84 billion market, we shall
>> first target10 percent of that market.  The gaming industry we also
>> target
>> some 5 percent of more than $120 billion industry.
>>
>> As we develop housing, we shall work to create smarter cities with the
>> aim
>> of fighting decease through prevention.  The aim is to limit the more
>> than
>> 20 billion shillings used in testing for malaria and typhoid and also
>> avoid taking people to hospital and changing the health paradigm from
>> curative to prevention.
>>
>> The world has given us the opportunity to begin to think big but we must
>> do the basics like controlling our population growth.  It does not auger
>> well for us to grow at the rate we are at the moment when we already
>> have
>> a problem with food security.  Whenever your people are food insecure,
>> it
>> dents your confidence greatly.
>>
>> We shall have a clear foreign policy with more emphasies on Africa.  Our
>> growth is more dependent on Africa as we move forward.  We must
>> de-emphasize our dependency on Europe for our economic development and
>> start fighting for apace here in Africa.  If we grow our business in
>> Africa, we shall rebuild not only our image but confidence levels.  This
>> is what all other candidates lack.
>>
>> You realize I have not said much about Asia.  This is because we can
>> fifgt
>> them without suffering as much as we would if we were to ignore the
>> Western world.  This is far more complex to state here.
>>
>> I will write more later.  Just starting to listen to UK Prime Minister,
>> David Cameron.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>> Ndemo
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dr Ndemo
>>>
>>> Greetings.
>>>
>>> Please refer to the attached summary of the issues you raised during
>>> the
>>> 'Ndemo for President Campaign'. Its been a hectic time for us
>>> considering
>>> we were all busy with the IGF.
>>>
>>> We are now in the process of finalizing this and other reports. We have
>>> noted that there were two questions that you did not answer. Do you
>>> think
>>> you could respond to them so that you allow us to finalize? You can
>>> also
>>> react to the summary and ofcourse any lister is free to react/respond.
>>>
>>> The two questions:
>>> 1. How does the government alleviate the fear of making the wrong
>>> decision(s) and are there any measures in place for success and
>>> tolerance
>>> for failure within government?
>>>
>>> 2. How would you ensure public officers are provided with freedom to
>>> make
>>> choices, to make mistakes, know the options for redress, and put an
>>> exit
>>> strategy in place should things go wrong?
>>>
>>> A great week to you and to all the listers.
>>>
>>> Rgds
>>> GG
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