[kictanet] Parliamentary Committee on Sports Betting

[Rosemary Koech-Kimwatu]

The betting fraternity has benefited heavily from the fairly lax regulatory
regime and have failed to make considerations on handling the effects that
come as a result of the business,

They have only one option and that is to figure out how they will guide the
discussion on how they will be regulated.

A few months ago they had the option of self regulating, but now the
legislators have taken the lead.

They may soon find themselves in the same boat as the ICT fraternity is in
today, trying to fire hose a faulty proposed regulation I.e the ICT
practitioners bill.

It is agreed that there is a need to tame the gambling beast but it may be
important to protect the innovations that have made their "success"
possible. It may help the country if proposed regulation would ensure that
the revenues earned from the industry are used for greater public good than
is currently being felt, this may be the the only silver lining out of this
cloud.

Regards,

Rosemary Koech-Kimwatu

On 5 Aug 2016 16:00, "James Mbugua via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> From an ICT perspective,
>
> Safaricom should be asked to switch off their short codes for these
> betting firms.
>
> JG
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Timothy- Coach- Oriedo via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>>
>> Gamification. it's amazing how the debate around gambling has chosen to
>> focus on monetary gains, addiction and other associative proclivities. How
>> would one for instance compare sports gambling with pokemon? There are
>> accounts of an individual who racked a bill of $4,954 a Japanese gymnast in
>> Rio thanks to Pokemon Go... Catch ‘em all or go broke tryin.
>>
>> For me they are both innovations riding on two precincts, one a
>> supporting infrastructure - mobile and two consumers psychographics. Much
>> needs to be done to support and ensure the government benefits from a
>> fiscal  angle of such innovations. I welcome parliamentary committee move
>> to seek to understand the gamification phenomenon but ask it to be careful
>> not put duress the sports betting firms that might lead to the firms
>> contributing to there campaign kitty's to assuage tinkering of policies to
>> their advantage.
>>
>> Your thoughts from an ICT perspective?
>>
>> Tim
>>
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