[kictanet] Cofek Article citing Digital Villages

Fri Apr 26 00:33:38 EAT 2013

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Paul Kukubo
Chief Executive Officer, Kenya ICT Board
PO Box 27150 - 00100
Nairobi, Kenya

12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street

Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960
Fax: +254 20 2211962
website: www.ict.go.ke
local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya
twitter:@tandaaKENYA
BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke
Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke

personal contacts
_______________

Cell: + 254 717 180001

skype: kukubopaul
googletalk: pkukubo
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Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub

Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT,
through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth
for socio economic enrichment

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Paul Kukubo <pkukubo at ict.go.ke> wrote:

> Kivuva
>
> Indeed some of the Kenya ICT Board supported Pasha Centres are struggling,
> while others are doing well, based on research that we conduct regularly
> with Deloitte. That is a separate discussion. I suggest you provide details
> of the "many villages that you live in" you refer to in your email.
>
> Pasha centres, ( branded PASHA) are NOT owned or operated by the Kenya ICT
> Board but rather by Kenyan wananchi out there. Most received one month of
> business plan and operational execution training from us prior to us
> selecting them. We trained over 1000 Kenyans nationwide before commencing
> this project.
>
> The Pasha model works in the following way: we advertise for potential
> entrepreneurs who have to submit a business plan for a loan that is
> administered by Family Bank at preferential interest.  This is a commercial
> model intended to be self sustaining.
>
> I humbly suggest that you take the time to develop an informed opinion.
> Casual generalization would degenerate a useful discussion, which is
> otherwise worth having. Your email does not even convince me you
>
> Pasha centre managers demonstrate different levels of business maturity
> and come from different counties with different levels of business
> opportunity. They have varying levels of success. This is not unexpected.
>
> However, what we have on our website as a statement of fact is the
> progress report on this effort over the past 4 years. This is not playing
> PR (a statement I take particular exception to).
>
> Asante
>
> Paul Kukubo CEO Kenya ICT Board
>
>
>
> Paul Kukubo
> Chief Executive Officer, Kenya ICT Board
>
> PO Box 27150 - 00100
> Nairobi, Kenya
>
> 12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street
>
> Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960
> Fax: +254 20 2211962
> website: www.ict.go.ke
> local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya
> twitter:@tandaaKENYA
> BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke
> Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke
>
>
> personal contacts
> _______________
>
> Cell: + 254 717 180001
>
>
> skype: kukubopaul
> googletalk: pkukubo
> personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke
> personal twitter: @pkukubo
>
>
> ____________________
> Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub
>
> Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT,
> through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth
> for socio economic enrichment
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Kivuva <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com>wrote:
>
>> Mr. Kukubo should know better than play PR on the list. Many of the
>> Pasha centers are studs with no operation. We live in these villages
>> and we see them.
>>
>> The result of an independent audit done by Listers and spearheaded by
>> Dr. Warigia Bowman is available in the archives of this list. It
>> emerged that one major operator was claiming to sponsor the Digital
>> Villages hence get exempted from the USF yet at the ground, the
>> Digital Villages are NGOs (Nothing Going On). This amounts to stealing
>> from me, the public. Actually, the operator should be compelled to pay
>> arrears she owes to the USF. It's criminal.
>>
>> @Madete, repeat projects are a ripe area for grand-corruption and
>> looting public money. Postal cooperation of Kenya rolled out VSAT to
>> all Post offices in Kenya, with cyber cafe like operations dubbed
>> "Posta Surf". It was a total failure. That project became a white
>> elephant and Kenya lost millions of shillings. My fellow citizens, let
>> us be vigilant and eagle eyed for taxpayers money to be used wisely.
>> There are people who are already salivating on thinking of this new
>> project Mr. Madete is talking about. For the failed corrupt "Posta
>> Surf" initiative scandal, please read the Mars Group report here
>>
>> http://www.marsgroupkenya.org/corruption/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=29
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> On 25/04/2013, Bruce Madete <madetebruce at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Allow me to shed some light on this matter. On behalf Dr Ndemo, l chair
>> the
>> > committee that was to utilize close to ksh 250 million- as part of the
>> > Economic stimulus Programme to role out the Digital Villages throughout
>> the
>> > country. In conjunction with the PCK the progamme would cover select
>> Post
>> > Offices and later cover all of them. This was in line with the wider
>> > objective of reaching out to the rest of the country as the Government
>> > embarked on the 'one stop shop' concept of providing services in line
>> with
>> > the Constitutions devolved system (indeed a team from PCK went to
>> Brazil to
>> > benchmark on this). Unfortunately due to time constraints in the
>> > preparations, the funds were not utilized by the time the budget was
>> > revised. The funds were withdrawn. The committee is still in place and
>> > hopefully the funds will be made available next financial year to
>> > actualize the dream of having digital villages in all the post offices
>> in
>> > the country.
>> > Madete
>> >
>> > On Thursday, April 25, 2013, Warigia Bowman wrote:
>> >
>> >> Dear colleagues and Mr. Kukubo
>> >>
>> >> I just want to clarify that the pasha centers do exist, and I have
>> viewed
>> >> them. As of my last audit, many were not yet in operation, so we may
>> need
>> >> to go do another review.
>> >>
>> >> With regards to the safaricom digital villages, based on my research,
>> >> which many on this list participated in, it is indeed fair to say that
>> >> they
>> >> do not really exist, other than as private cybers with a banner. It is
>> >> possible that massive improvements have been made, in which case lets
>> go
>> >> out in the field this summer!
>> >>
>> >> Mr. Kukubo, perhaps you need to make a strong effort to brand the
>> pashas
>> >> separately from the digital villages.
>> >>
>> >> Take care, and kind regards,
>> >>
>> >> Warigia
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe
>> >> <blongwe at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'blongwe at gmail.com');>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Hmm, seems to me that COFEK's credibility is decaying rapidly with
>> these
>> >>> kind of false allegations, one would expect a consumer body to embrace
>> >>> the
>> >>> highest standards for integrity, honesty, fairness....but
>> >>> apparently......
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Paul Kukubo <pkukubo at ict.go.ke>
>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Dear listers
>> >>>
>> >>> The article by COFEK (Consumer Federation of Kenya) on their website,
>> >>>
>> http://www.cofek.co.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1529%3Awhy-ndemo-may-have-been-missed-on-the-ict-docket&catid=1%3Alatest-news&Itemid=62creates
>> >>> the impression that digital villages do not exist. The Kenya ICT
>> >>> Board wishes to correct this position.
>> >>>
>> >>> The Kenya ICT Board has committed funding for 65 Pasha centres to date
>> >>> across the country. For a factual update, we urge listers to visit.
>> >>> http://www.ict.go.ke/index.php/digitalinclusion. We will update this
>> >>> even further with an announcement we are making on Monday to further
>> >>> develop these centres.
>> >>>
>> >>> The Kenya ICT Board will write to COFEK formally providing further
>> >>> information in the public interest on the basis of COFEK's stated goal
>> >>> as
>> >>> stated on their website "advocacy is based on authentic information as
>> >>> backed by continuous research."
>> >>>
>> >>> We have finalised our 6 year report on the Kenya ICT Board which is
>> >>> currently being printed. we shall upload a digital copy onto our
>> >>> website,
>> >>> in the next week or so. This will make an exciting read on the sector.
>> >>>
>> >>> My view as the outgoing Kenya ICT Board CEO is that Dr Ndemo provided
>> >>> the
>> >>> vision, compeled us to seek a world class approach, set the tone of
>> >>> energetic execution, helped us cement partnerships in order to improve
>> >>> capacity, and focus on enterprise development, innovation and the
>> >>> ordinary
>> >>> citizen. He cautioned against getting too carried away in ICT dogma,
>> but
>> >>> asked that we rather just get the job done. This was augmented with
>> >>> spirit
>> >>> of learning to pick up quickly from mistakes, (and many were made).
>> >>> There
>> >>> will be much debate, and indeed many things are left for the next team
>> >>> to
>> >>> do.
>> >>>
>> >>> As a team, we gave this our very best effort and Dr Ndemo gave us a
>> >>> style
>> >>> of leadership that even in the best private sector environments, you
>> >>> will
>> >>> struggle to find. (I will write more extensively on this later.)
>> >>>
>> >>> We reaped a leadership dividend in the sector, with support from the
>> >>> highest level of government. On this score there can be no debate. The
>> >>> country is much better for it
>> >>>
>> >>> We pray this carries on.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Asante
>> >>>
>> >>> Paul Kukubo
>> >>> Chief Executive Officer, (outgoing), Kenya ICT Board
>> >>> PO Box 27150 - 00100
>> >>> Nairobi, Kenya
>> >>>
>> >>> 12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street
>> >>>
>> >>> Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960
>> >>> Fax: +254 20 2211962
>> >>> website: www.ict.go.ke
>> >>> local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya
>> >>> twitter:@tandaaKENYA
>> >>> BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke
>> >>> Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> personal contacts
>> >>> _______________
>> >>>
>> >>> Cell: + 254 717 180001
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> skype: kukubopaul
>> >>> googletalk: pkukubo
>> >>> personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke
>> >>> personal twitter: @pkukubo
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> ____________________
>> >>> Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub
>> >>>
>> >>> Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit
>> ICT,
>> >>> through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure
>> growth
>> >>> for socio economic enrichment
>> >>>
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