[kictanet] The Information Communication Technology Practitioners Bill, 2016 - Taking effect???

Tue Feb 21 00:51:25 EAT 2017

Listers,
We may need to ask ourselves what public participation means. I remember we
had a long debate here in December 2016 about this regulation of the
profession through the backdoor. Many listers raised valid points about the
issue.
Why then would the Ministry through ICTA proceed to implement the
problematic directive anyway?

At a policy level there is even more confusion. The government states that
it wants to get more youth to enjoy the benefits of government tendering.
The same government acknowledges that the youth are significant players in
ICT services/goods. Then the same government goes ahead to give a policy
that will lead to more hurdles for ordinary youth and their eventual
exclusion in tendering for ICT services. What is!

At the risk of repetition, here is a link to Kwame Owino's article
<http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/kwame/2274474-3463774-nfi96n/>on
policy corruption. He argues that some policies are designed to favour
certain elite people and this ICTA directive (as read with our discussions
<https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/pipermail/kictanet/2016-December/thread.html>in
December 2016) seems to be just that.  One can even argue that this policy
excludes ICT procurement from the AGPO policy and the ease of doing
business in Kenya aspirations.

I will not even get into the issue of basis. How does a government entity
wake up and decide to start a licencing regime? Does anyone understand what
legal provision they are anchoring this on? I hope that ICTA or the
Ministry can favour us with an explanation.

Regards,

2017-02-20 22:42 GMT+03:00 Anderson Levi via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>:

> If I may I think what Wash, is saying is that many on this list may not be
> aware of what is being implemented a.k.a. the noise of other issues is
> obscuring it.
>
> On 20 Feb 2017 21:31, "Barrack Otieno via kictanet" <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> Hi Wash,
>>
>> This is a different issue.  It has to do with standardization of IT
>> processes using ISO Standards that are domesticated at Kenya Bureau of
>> Standards like the ISO 27000 series that focus on IT Security and
>> Governance. ICTA and KEBS have been engaging on how this can be
>> achieved for the past year.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> On 2/20/17, Odhiambo Washington via kictanet
>> <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>> > Hello Listers,
>> >
>> > Sorry to interfere with the debate on CA spying on us. There is a short
>> > break as Okiya Omtatah fights for and maintains our freedoms...
>> >
>> > Please read the attachment and let me know what you think...
>> >
>> > It looks like the ICTA/MoICT are implementing something ...
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Best regards,
>> > Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
>> > Nairobi,KE
>> > +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
>> > "Oh, the cruft."
>> >
>>
>>
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