[kictanet] Laptops - policy, budgets, data

[robert yawe]

@Andrea,

At the forum that we held at Strathmore we had a presentation from the Ministry of Education and it was clear that they do have a policy, budget and data the problem is that many of us prefer innuendo and speculation.

The interesting revelation was that the project has been 7 years in the making therefore we need to appreciate that this was not a tweeter side directive, the KICD (formerly KIE) have also been working on a digital curriculum and content development platform for the past 5 years, I have the privilege of seeing it in action which is why I can comfortably dismiss the Kenya Publishers Association as a dinosaur. 


In the past 4 or so weeks I have been moving closer to the light and in the past few days I have been feeling the heat from the light at the end of the tunnel, catchup.

Regards

 
Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya


Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696


________________________________
 From: Andrea Bohnstedt <andrea.bohnstedt at ratio-magazine.com>
To: robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk 
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> 
Sent: Monday, 12 August 2013, 10:39
Subject: [kictanet] Laptops - policy, budgets, data
 


Jason Lakin makes some excellent (and very very common sensical) points on policies, budgets and data - concerns the laptop initiative as much as as host of other issues: 

'What is the vaunted laptop policy, for example? It is a matter of 
constant discussion, yet we really do not know what it entails. This 
lack of clarity leads to sterile debate. (...) Policies are not made on television or on the radio. Serious policy must
 be written down, it must contain details, and it must include 
information about costs. (...) Another point that seems trivial but unfortunately needs repeating is 
that transparency about policy is not enough. The data that government 
puts out must also be accurate.' 

From: 
http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/OpEd/comment/Mass-medical-suicide-and-mind-bending-figures/-/434750/1942424/-/item/0/-/gf3npq/-/index.html

Apologies if anyone has posted this already. 

Have a lovely week! 
Andrea 





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