[kictanet] Chipuka for smartphone users

[Brian Ngure]

Hi,

Is this for real? Reading this, I kept asking myself "Is it April Fools
Day?".


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:28 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A leaked memo from the Kenya ICT Board indicates that they are at an
> advanced stage of launching a certification program for smart phone users,
> this has been necessitated by complaints emanating from telephone companies
> sent to CCK about users who send emails to the wrong people, leave their
> Bluetooth on which result in drained batteries and forgetting to turn off
> 3G streams thereby exhausting their data bundles.
>
> The source of this leak cannot be published so as to protect their
> identity and also because they are not mandated to make statements on
> behalf of the organisation, in a related issue the Governors Steering
> Committee on Revenue Collection has proposed that the Chipuka Smartphone
> Users course be a mandatory certification that all seen carrying a
> smartphone must get, they intend to introduce a bylaw to enforce this and a
> fine of not less than 5,000/- be charged to anyone found using a smartphone
> without the certification.
>
> On a less serious note, the government intends to spend 22 billion to
> acquire and role out 425,000 laptops where 28,000/- will be spend on the
> laptop itself and 23,750/- used to support each laptop which will include
> the training of 50 youths to develop content for the laptops.  There is yet
> no budget for training of teachers but the amount includes purchase of
> solar panels at 20,000/- each, to reduce costs it has been proposed that
> each panel be shared between 2 laptops (Samsung laptop has built in solar
> panel).
>
> How many of you lister's, including the laggards, has a certification for
> using a smartphone?
>
> The cabinet secretary responsible for Information, Communication, and
> Technology should urgently provide technical assistance to the cabinet
> secretary for Education before he turns this noble project into the largest
> scandal the country has ever seen.
>
> Regards
>
> PS.  How can we participate in making sure that this initiative meets its
> objective?
>
> Robert Yawe
> KAY System Technologies Ltd
> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
> Kenya
>
> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
>
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