[kictanet] Kenya ICT Practitioners Bill -Memorandum to Parliament

[Grace Githaiga]

Listers
Thank you for your comments on the pertinent debate of the ICT 
Practitioners Bill. In addition to other processes, we consolidated your comments into a memorandum (attached) and 
submitted to the Parliamentary Energy and ICT committee pursuant to 
their call for comments. 



In sum, some of the sticking points are as follows: 


a)    Objective
of the Bill: The
Bill will achieve more harm than good for the ICT industry.

b)    There was not adequate Public Participation
in development of the Bill, yet the ICT sector has a history of consultations
in development of laws and policies for the sector.

c)    The Bill is In congruent
with other laws and policies in the sector.

d)    The Bill would be
impractical to implement.

e)    The Bill has many
incoherent provisions.

f)     The Bill stifles
Innovation.

g)    There is an ongoing
Policy Review process spearheaded by the Ministry of ICT and legislation
affecting the industry should come after the policy process.

h)  
The ICT community had identified priorities such as
a Data Protection framework and a Cyber Security framework as priority areas
for legislative intervention. 

i)    
The Bill will create hurdles for youth in the ICT
sector by creating a mandatory registration regime.  

j)   
The Bill overrates university education, which most
of the youth in the sector do not have although they have other ICT skills and
competencies, acquired through self learning and certification etc. 

k)   
The Bill is not in line with global practices and
policies on ICT human resource management and will for instance inhibit
movement of labour in the sector in the East African Community. 

 

It
is for the foregoing reasons that we pray,  that the
Bill be withdrawn to allow for proper consultations among stakeholders and
completion of the ongoing Kenya ICT policy review process. 


Attached please find a memorandum opposing the Bill. 

Rgds

Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 14:34:34 +0300
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Kenya ICT Practitioners Bill - Walu's Views
From: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
CC: awatila at yahoo.co.uk; muthuridennis at gmail.com
To: ggithaiga at hotmail.com

See enclosed.
Submission of views have been invited.
Will kictanet make any formal submission to the departmental committee working on the bill
Regards,
Sent from Samsung tablet
On Jul 6, 2016 3:47 PM, Alex Watila <awatila at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Thanks Walu,
What is the way forward on the bill?
 
Regards,
 
Alex
 
 

 		 	   		  
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