[kictanet] [nairobilug] Draft National ICT policy

Tue Jul 5 23:24:10 EAT 2016

Keen to know the mischief this regulation seeks to cure.
On Jul 5, 2016 7:28 PM, "Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Interesting developments Alex.
> My initial reaction after reading the Bill is, questions questions
> questions:
> First of all, why would anyone conceive such an idea? To cure what
> problem? How will it better society as a whole? If indeed there was a
> problem to be addressed, couldn't the same have been dealt with in the
> policy process first? Assuming this Bill emanated from the Ministry, why
> would the Ministry undertake a policy review process and at the same time
> undertake a legal process to regulate the profession? And why is regulation
> of ICT professionals not even mentioned in the draft policy? We are always
> ready to engage and I am shocked to have learnt of the process so far in
> the day. Or did ICT professionals have a processes the outcome of which is
> this Bill?
>
> Speaking of a profession, what is the ICT profession? I see the Bill has
> attempted a definition at section 2 but isn't ICTs the most dynamic and
> cross cutting "profession" we have? Was there a study done to support such
> a disruptive regulation of the profession? Are there other countries that
> regulate their geeks this much? So what informed this legislation?
>
> Think of all the young people who eke a living from ICT related
> businesses. Why would anyone want to subject all these youth, together with
> those graduating from colleges and universities to one more hurdle before
> they can start working? Can't we leave it to the market to separate the
> very good practitioners from the average ones?
> I do not understand the Kenyan obsession with  ever regulating
> professions. What I know is that it is expensive for parents to perpetually
> pay fees before their (overgrown) children can finally get employment. It
> is also an additional cost to businesses as they have to foot the cost of
> compliance for the various professionals they employ or outsource.
>
> Finally, what are our legislative priorities in this sector? I would have
> thought the Data Protection framework is more urgent and maybe a Cyber
> Security one. While I did not intend to comment on the contents of the
> Bill, I can't help but notice that one ICT Association of Kenya will have
> the arduous task of appointing five (out of nine) people to the Council
> that will regulate professionals (Section 4). Pray tell, who is this
> association?
>
> Regards,
>
> 2016-07-05 14:03 GMT+03:00 Alex Watila via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>:
>
>> FYI
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nairobi-gnu at googlegroups.com [mailto:nairobi-gnu at googlegroups.com]
>> On Behalf Of Tim Schofield
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2016 11:37 AM
>> To: nairobi-gnu at googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: [nairobilug] Draft National ICT policy
>>
>> This could be a crushing blow to Kenya's ICT industry. If the USA had
>> such a law then so many of their major ICT companies would never have
>> happened. To name but 2, neither Steve Jobs nor Bill Gates gained any
>> formal ICT qualifications, in fact neither of them passed a degree in
>> anything. Several of the leading Linux kernel developers have no formal ICT
>> training.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> On 4 July 2016 at 14:04, Tony White <tony.mzungu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > ...and *this*:
>> >
>> > http://kenyalaw.org/kl/fileadmin/pdfdownloads/bills/2016/InformationCo
>> > mmunicationTechnologyPractitioners_Bill_2016.pdf
>> >
>> > Which was introduced in the National Assembly last week, which will
>> > rquire all ICT 'practitioners' to be licenced (annually!!) and
>> > registered, with examination of qualifications, and ongoing
>> > 'training'!!
>> >
>> > Phew!!
>> >
>> > Tony
>> >
>> > On 04/07/2016, Ibrahim Ng'eno <eebrah at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Y'all have seen this[1], yes?
>> >>
>> >> [1]
>> >> http://www.information.go.ke/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Draft-Nationa
>> >> l-ICT-Policy-20June2016.pdf
>> >>
>> >> -- Ibrahim
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