[kictanet] Fred Matiangi, Cabinet Secretary for ICT

Wed Apr 24 13:38:22 EAT 2013

But I thought I remember many thinking Dr. Ndemo was wrong for the ministry
because his qualifications were in Finance and Economics and he was
replacing Engineer Rege who was thought most qualified for the position?

The question we should ask is how much access will they have to State
House. For Kagwe and Ndemo, having the ear of State House really helped in
moving some of the major hurdles to their goals.

Yawe what do you mean it took years to get Ndemo to reach his current level
of appreciation of ICT? That is condescending. Dr. Ndemo simply did what
government is supposed to do, listen to stakeholders to include their
concerns when crafting policy. Given that he did many of his degrees
abroad, I tend to think Daktari had seen a lot of the technology you speak
of looong before you even contemplated it here.

JG

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com>wrote:

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> From: george at afrinic.net
> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:40:33 +0400
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> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Fred Matiangi, Cabinet Secretary for ICT
> CC: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> To: ggithaiga at hotmail.com
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> I think there has been a lot of lobbying, even though of course the guys
> promised to give the jobs to 'proper' technocrats. We know that we were
> being duped, somewhat, because these are political appointments. I think
> Matiangi has been leading, among other projects, the televising of
> parliament, if I am not wrong. As someone alluded here, again
> speculatively, he was (and perhaps still is) very close to a very senior
> Kisii politician. And due to the monster called 'ethnic balancing', Dr
> Ndemo will most likely be moved to another department, if all. But he is
> still welcome at the University of Nairobi where he can contribute a lot.
> What I am sure though is that Dr Ndemo has been brilliant, and hope he can
> still retain his position (wishful thinking, perhaps!) irrespective of
> where the Secretary comes from.
>
> George
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> On Apr 23, 2013, at 9:17 PM, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Haiya,
>
> Statehouse is digital! CVs within minutes of the announcement, let me
> adjust my seat, this looks like it will be an exciting 5 years!
>
> On Tuesday, April 23, 2013, Muchiri Nyaggah wrote:
>
> State House has been kind enough to put up brief CVs on Scribd.
>
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/137564995/Cabinet-Secretaries-Nominees-CVs
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> Kind regards,
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> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> It appears the above is our new Cabinet Sec. for ICT.  Anyone with some
> background, bio on him?  Google is returning this - but not sure if he is
> our guy.
>
>
> http://www.cid.suny.edu/about_us/staff_in_focus/about_staff_in_focus_fred.cfm
>
> walu.
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