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<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; "><a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/business/news/Talks+to+resolve+row+at+Internet+firm/-/1006/1485812/-/oonana/-/index.html">Talks to resolve row at Internet firm</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; "><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; "><a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/business/news/Talks+to+resolve+row+at+Internet+firm/-/1006/1485812/-/oonana/-/index.html">http://www.nation.co.ke/business/news/Talks+to+resolve+row+at+Internet+firm/-/1006/1485812/-/oonana/-/index.html</a>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; "><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; ">The multi-stakeholder institution charged with administering Kenya’s Internet domain .ke, is hoping to iron out differences over its recent restructuring in its annual general meeting on Friday.</p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; ">The meeting, which will be held in Nairobi, brings together registrars, government representatives, Internet businesses and other people interested in the ICT sector.</p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; ">Speaking on Thursday, the organisation’s change manager, Mr Sammy Buruchara, said the forum would provide a good platform for the board of the institution to iron out issues facing the company.</p></div><div style="margin: 5px; padding: 2px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; float: left; background-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); "><div class="wide_google_ads" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><analytics:objectcontext object="com.coremedia.mauritius.cae.contentbeans.MauAdvertisementImpl$$[id=1215968]" logview="true" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><analytics:namecontext name="ad_Google Adsense" logview="true" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "></analytics:namecontext></analytics:objectcontext></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; ">“It will give the board of the Kenya Network Information Centre (KeNIC) an opportunity to clear the air over all the allegations arising from the ongoing organisational restructure and create rapport on the way forward,” Mr Buruchara said.</p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; ">The AGM comes at a time when the institution is facing questions from the public over its decision to fire all its employees in what it says is an organisational restructure.</p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; ">A number of board members have also left KeNIC in the past two months.</p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; ">In an email, Information and Communications Permanent Secretary Bitange Ndemo termed the decision to terminate employees’ contracts without consulting stakeholders as drastic and unprocedural.</p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; ">“Even in the Government, firing employees has several steps that must be followed to ensure security of tenure. This came as a surprise, yet we are supposed to be stakeholders. We must all respect the spirit of the Constitution, especially in such a multi-stakeholder agency,” Dr Ndemo said.</p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; ">In reaction, Mr Buruchara, who is on a three-month contract to oversee the execution of an institutional assessment report prepared by ZappKaas Consulting and Training Ltd, said KeNIC is an organisation with a working board and people should stop questioning its decision.</p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; "><span style="line-height: 1.3em; ">Currently, KeNIC is the administrator of over 20,000 domains at the .ke registry.</span></p></div> </div></body>
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