[kictanet] Day 3 of Talk to the Senate (2017-2022 Priorities)

[Robert Muthuri]

Dear Kanini,


I second Barack and extend his sentiments by alluding to my immediate
comments on the Jadili platform. The public participation framework should
include a component on how to use developments in legal informatics in
guaranteeing public participation by the citizenry on decisions affecting
them. If we can annotate bills at such granular levels as
section/subsection/paragraph etc, a ready use case would be to crowdsource
for comments and show which sections/amendments are most favoured and which
aren't. That helps to hold legislators accountable and also to confront
amendments that are sneaked into bills last minute.



We have related case studies to avail while doing this - Kenya leads the
continent and has one of the most progressive law reporting portals owing
to joint efforts by the AG's office, the Kenya Law Reform Commission, the
Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan, UN/DESA and Lexis Nexis. What that means
is for instance that eKLR now incorporate the latest Legislative XML
standards such as Akoma Ntoso which makes their open data way more
beneficial to those harnessing and adding value to it e.g. in my research
work.


Kind regards,
Robert

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 9:36 AM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Good morning Kanini,
>
> There is need for a proper framework that defines meaningful public
> participation which should be adhered to by the National and County
> government. KICTAnet developed a tool kit that should be considered by the
> Senate. At the very minimum the Senate should be providing feedback
> whenever it calls the public as it did last year during the elections
> amendment debate, honestly the wahehimiwas earn sitting allowances while
> the public spends their precious time to contribute to their work yet no
> feedback is provided. We need urgent feedback on the ICT policy, we also
> need feedback on the public participation exercise that culminated in the
> elections amendment act.
>
> I would also like to take this opportunity to applaud senator Halake for
> engaging stakeholders electronically through the KICTAnet mailing list, i
> think the senate can take advantage of mailing lists and Social Media to
> engage the public provided the engagement is well structured and based on a
> public participation framework.
>
> Best
>
> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 9:10 AM, kanini mutemi via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> Dear Listers,
>>
>> Welome to the third and final day of the Talk to the Senate series. We
>> have discussed at length the challenges facing the counties and made
>> exciting proposals for a brighter future. We will culminate this discussion
>> with an earnest look at how we can foster engagements between the ICT
>> community and the legislature (think, effective public participation). The
>> proposals we come up with could very easily be adopted into a Public
>> Participation Bill that would dictate how counties are to conduct public
>> participation, talk about killing two birds with one stone.
>>
>> Please indulge me in answering the following questions–
>>
>> (a) What constitutes effective public participation?
>>
>> (b) How can we leverage on ICT to achieve effective public participation?
>>
>> (c) Please give proposals on engagements you would like to see between
>> the ICT community and the Senate ICT Committee.
>>
>>
>> Let us finish strong!
>>
>>
>>
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