[kictanet] Why Kenya has not Operationalized the Universal Access Fund?

Wed Nov 16 16:44:22 EAT 2011

Dr. Rigia,

sounds like i had read this before - wasnt this part of your PhD thesis? Either way, nice piece. 

As for the Universal Fund - what i could pick from the grapevine was initially that the commission to handle the fund had not been instituted (wonder if it is now); also picked that operators did not buy the idea of submitting funds to this commission - only to go back and "beg" for their funds in order to use them in rural area.  And then ofcourse reservations on how open and transparent such a commission is likely to be given that it would be overseeing quite some hefty amount of monies (read corporate governance issues aka corruption opportunities)

Anyway, I think the whole thing may have been overtaken by events - especially the new constitutional dispensation which may demand further rethinking on such a commission (structure, operation, nomination of the commissioners etc).

walu.

--- On Wed, 11/16/11, warigia bowman <warigia at aucegypt.edu> wrote:

From: warigia bowman <warigia at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Why Kenya has not Operationalized the Universal Access Fund?
To: jwalu at yahoo.com
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 11:48 AM

Dear Colleagues, 

Attached please find a peer reviewed article I published on Kenya's ICT Policy process where I address this issue. 

You can download this article as well as others I wrote here

http://www.warigiabowman.com/index.php?page=working-papers

Yours, Rigia

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Edith Adera <eadera at idrc.or.ke> wrote:

Listers,
 Writing a journal paper and just discovered that Kenya has NOT operationalized the Universal Access Fund! This is indeed VERY unfortunate (and a shame), yet we speak on this list about ICTs transforming our economy. 
 Bwana Ndemo, you might enlighten us on why this state of affairs? What is the bottleneck?
 Edith 

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