[kictanet] Merger of Agencies to Streamline ICT in Kenya

[S.M. Muraya]

One ICT Agency to formulate policy and promote (open) standards is in order.

However, every major government function/domain (e.g. lands.go.ke,
transport.go.ke, water.go.ke, energy.go.ke, judciary.go.ke, nairobi.go.ke)
must have its own CIO.

Today, who is accountable for the lack of electronic updates/communications
from these domains?

Within these domains, generic e-mail addresses such as "help at police.go.ke"
would not be too bad if we could get responses from them.

Even better is if we could have specific individual names associated with
domains, even though this may be viewed as costly from a licensing point of
view.


On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have always been a supporter of centralised information infrastructure
> for government services.
>
> Given our historical nature where ICT Board, GITS, eGovernment and each
> ministry and agency with its own mini-ICT budget, it has always been
> impossible to achieve a unified ICT objective within govt.
>
> Imagine being the CIO of Safaricom but having Marketing, Engineering, |HR
> and other departments buying and running their own ICT systems that have no
> relation to each other = disaster.  Think Lands, Immigration, AG, Police
> with their own un-connected ICT budgets then you will begin to see the need
> to harmonize at some level - as long as you dont kill the speed at which
> some ministries/ depts may wish to move.
>
> walu.
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya at gmail.com>
> *To:* jwalu at yahoo.com
> *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 11, 2013 10:44 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] Merger of Agencies to Streamline ICT in Kenya
>
> On this note, where are we in creating legislation establishing CIO
> postions/roles in State Departments and Corporations?
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:34 AM, waudo siganga <emailsignet at mailcan.com>wrote:
>
>
> http://www.cskonline.org/about-us/kenya-ict-press/312-merger-of-agencies-to-streamline-ict-in-kenya
>
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