[kictanet] Professional Certification and Standardization a Must, is this feasible?

[Barrack Otieno]

Well i like your argument Liko, thinking aloud certification and
standardization works well within a defined strategy, do we have a
national ICT strategy, any one willing to share a copy, i am sure this
debate might make more sense within such a framework.

On 4/23/12, agostal at gmail.com <agostal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe there is no value to employers ? I can hire without a government test
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> And what will the test test ? There is Microsoft Certified Professionals,
> LPI, Cisco exams. Java Exams
>
> So what is being tested ?
>
> Will Kenya do a better job than microsoft, sun, oracle, cisco ?
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> To: Agosta Liko<agostal at gmail.com>
> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Subject: [kictanet] Professional Certification and Standardization a Must,
> 	is this feasible?
>
> Listers,
>
> I am just going through an article by Harry Hare in the CIO magazine
> Vol 4 March 2012. He mentions efforts by the Computer Society of Kenya
> and the IT standards association to institutionalise some form of
> standards, it appears there is no organisation to spearhead this
> initiative. I am involved in Standards developement at Kenya Bureu of
> Standards (ISO 27000 series) together with a number of colleagues on
> the list and must admit it has been frustrating to get this message
> out there to the industry, how practical is it to use the Directorate
> of industrial training to enforce this?
>
> Best Regards
>
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