[kictanet] Day 1 of Talk to the Senate (2017-2022 Priorities)

Mon Feb 5 11:11:45 EAT 2018

That's right @Harry! We did see quite a bit of that in the last House and
devolution definitely suffered. Thank you for raising the cohesion issue.

@Deborah, not to worry. Thank you for reposting. Again, the issue of
duplicity and I might even add counterproductivity comes up. A broad
reading of Article 96 pits the Senate as the godfather of devolution so I
believe this is something the Senate ought to be able to address; how do we
streamline efforts by all these stakeholders to achieve the desired
results?

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 11:03 AM, Harry Delano <harry26001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Mercy,
>
> A very interesting observation and feedback there. It's one question we
> will pose back at Senator Halake. We have seen the national and county
> entities more often than not seem to pull in different directions. We
> really want to see a pragmatic approach to matters development, where as
> opposed to every entity charting their own vision rollouts, how does Senate
> plan to  help achieve synergy across board and avoid competing duplicitous
> efforts and waste of resources..? My suggestion; Bring all stakeholders on
> board - National govt/county  agencies as well as the private sector to
> synergise effort and develop great partnerships for tremendous development.
> Let's arise and  consign the elephant in the room - politics to the back
> burner to foster progress and development at a faster pace..
>
> Harry
>
>
>
> On 5 Feb 2018 10:15, "kanini mutemi via kictanet" <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> Thank you Harry and Kevin for starting us off.
>>
>> So far I gather:
>>
>>    - Huduma Centres in the counties
>>    - IT centres of excellence in the counties
>>    - Telecommunication infrastructure i.e. making provision for fibre
>>    optic cables in county road infrastructure.
>>
>> It may also be useful to note this early on, that the devolution
>> demographic is one that involves many players e.g. the county governments,
>> county assemblies, the Senate and the national government. Further that
>> each has its own role in achieving the aspirations of devolution. While
>> today the discussion is open to discussing all the ICT challenges in
>> general, we can start thinking of the role the Senate plays and how it can
>> use its role to influence the desired changes.
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 8:38 AM, Kevin Kamonye <kevin.kamonye at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to propose that all Counties include telecommunications
>>> infrastructure in their road plans.
>>>
>>> For instance, they should at least lay ample trunking for future leasing
>>> to any Telco that would wish to run fibre optic cables.
>>>
>>> This will help avoid the current situation whereby our well done roads
>>> and pavements are defaced repeatedly as these companies do their trenching
>>> and tunneling.
>>>
>>> Even further, the counties can run their own metro fibre networks and
>>> lease the unused cores to the ISPs. Further cooperation between the
>>> counties could also help in inter-linking these metro networks such that we
>>> will have all regions covered with protected rings.
>>>
>>> Sent on mobile.
>>>
>>> On 5 Feb 2018 08:16, "kanini mutemi via kictanet" <
>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Good morning Listers,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Welcome to Day 1 of 'Talk to the Senate'. This must have been what the
>>>> framers of the Constitution had in mind when they entrenched public
>>>> participation as a key constitutional principle- an opportunity for us to
>>>> make a case on what we think ought to be the Senate's priority 2017-2022. I
>>>> therefore encourage that we all participate in this session and look
>>>> forward to an animated discussion.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As Grace had briefed us on Friday, we will have a three day discussion
>>>> focusing on the counties and opportunities for intervention by the Senate.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This being the first day, our goal is to bring out issues of concern in
>>>> the counties as far as ICT is concerned. Once we have these, we will
>>>> proceed to make proposals on how the Senate may be of help in resolving
>>>> these issues on Day 2. On Day 3, we will discuss how to foster engagements
>>>> between the ICT community and the legislature.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is our guiding question for today–
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *What do you consider to be the ICT *
>>>>
>>>> *      (a) challenges; *
>>>>
>>>> *      (b) risks; and *
>>>>
>>>> *      (c) opportunities in the counties?*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As well, if there are ICT success stories coming out of the counties,
>>>> feel free to highlight them.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We are honoured to have Senator Abshiro Halake (Vice Chairperson,
>>>> Senate ICT Committee) on the list. Senator, karibu sana.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This discussion is now open!
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> *Mercy Mutemi, Advocate*.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>> --
>> *Mercy Mutemi, Advocate*.
>>
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