[kictanet] ​ Day 2(a) of 3: 2016 ICT Year in Review Feedback - Human Capital Feedback

[Gideon]

>From the findings, my few comments on

​​c) 40% of the respondents felt that tertiary institutions were,to a
moderate extent providing the requisite skill set for the ICT industry.34%
felt they were to a large extent providing these skills while 24% felt they
were not.

Comment: Tech and specifically the ICT world is an ever evolving realm, and
while therre are basics that remain constant, the institutions have the
responsibility to introduce these basics and as a plus, engage the industry
directly so that there is synergy and so that somehow the students come out
of the labs co-established and supported by the industry such as the
specialty labs with coding/startup ecosystems with skills hat can be
arbsored directly.

Does the millennial factor play a lot in this agile system, i think yes and
is it time to consider the millennial factor?

e) Provide general ICT literacy programmes to the public, Codingas a skill
to all students ? irrespective of discipline, Continuity ingovernment
offices (rather than sabotage of previous holder initiatives),Improve
Academia- Government-Industry linkages, Cryptography training, Identifyand
support Technology Universities, Promote Incubation Center, Have
mechanismsto weed out ICT quacks, Provide ICT scholarships, Standardize ICT
Trainings,Digitization of key services - police occurrence books, land
registries shouldbe availed to the youth.​

Comment: Digitization of all these legacy systems is a goo start, utilizing
the digitized systems should be improved so that efficiency is achieved.
Incubation centers are great to the extent that actual output can be
measured.

Regards
Rop


On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 12:36 PM, <kictanet-request at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
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> Day 2(a) of 3: 2016 ICT Year in Review Feedback - Human
>       Capital Feedback (Walubengo J)
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> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 09:26:24 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com>
> To: Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com>,  KICTAnet ICT Policy
>         Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Subject: [kictanet] Day 2(a) of 3: 2016 ICT Year in Review Feedback -
>         Human Capital Feedback
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> Thanx Barrack,
> Looks like Day1 had little reaction/comments. Feel free to belatedly post
> on Policy, Legal/ Regulatory matters but just keep the correct subject line.
> Today we to move to Day2a (Human Capital feedback) and Day 2b
> (Infrastructure feedback to be sent in next email)
> Summary feedback on Human Capital was as follows with detailed document
> attached.
> a) 41% of the respondents felt that the government had providedsufficient
> ICT opportunities for the youth to a moderate extent. 30% howeverfelt youth
> opportunities had not been effectively provided, while 27% felt ithad been
> done to a large extent.
>
> b) 58% of the respondents felt that the DLP (Laptop Project)will have a
> positive impact to a very large extent. 30% felt it would be amoderate
> impact while 12% think it will have little or no impact.
>
> ​​
> c) 40% of the respondents felt that tertiary institutions were,to a
> moderate extent providing the requisite skill set for the ICT industry.34%
> felt they were to a large extent providing these skills while 24% felt
> theywere not.
>
> d) 40% of the respondents felt that Konza City will have apositive impact
> to a very large extent. 21% felt it will be a moderate impactwhile 25%
> think it will have no impact.
>
> e) Provide general ICT literacy programmes to the public, Codingas a skill
> to all students ? irrespective of discipline, Continuity ingovernment
> offices (rather than sabotage of previous holder initiatives),Improve
> Academia- Government-Industry linkages, Cryptography training, Identifyand
> support Technology Universities, Promote Incubation Center, Have
> mechanismsto weed out ICT quacks, Provide ICT scholarships, Standardize ICT
> Trainings,Digitization of key services - police occurrence books, land
> registries shouldbe availed to the youth.
>
> Toa maoni (let hear your reactions)
> walu.
>
>       From: Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com>
>  To: Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>  Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2016 8:47 AM
>  Subject: Re: [kictanet] Day 1 of 3: 2016 ICT Year in Review Feedback -
> Policy, Legal & Regulatory Issues
>
> Listers,
>
> We welcome? more feedback? on day 1 discussions on how we have
> performed as an industry in 2016 . We will start day two this
> afternoon after providing a summary of day ones discussion should we
> receive feedback by then.
>
> Best Regards
>
> On 11/28/16, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Walu,
> >
> > Many thanks for the email. My humble opinion is that generally the
> > government and related agencies have made great efforts in investing
> > in ICT's. However it is worth noting that government is never good at
> > marketing itself or communicating and i guess this is where the
> > Ministry and related agencies need to pay attention. For example the
> > issue of IFMIS has really been misunderstood. Software should never be
> > blamed for fraud , people commit Fraud. We should always remember that
> > ICT's are a means to an end and not an end in themselves.
> >
> > Regards
>
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