<div dir="ltr"><div>My 2 cents,<br><br>Before we even start off with the Ministries, what we need is a GoK or in KICTA a CTO/CIO, someone whose work is to push for innovations in the Government.<br><br></div>This person should have very clear deliverables and expectations for their office and a large part of it should be in building or funding innovations that help GoKs and I would expect a lot of it should be to do with building Kenya as a technology hub and not just consuming technoiogy built elsewhere.<br>
<div><br>This person / under their office should then recruit his team in different Ministries.<br><br></div><div>The problem I see with the proposed approach is that, as it is, every Ministry has a head of IT and most likely they will just transform into the new roles and nothing will change.<br>
<br></div><div>Regards<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:32 AM, John Masiwe via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1f497d">@Muraya, thanks for this.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1f497d">This is commendable and I believe a step in the right direction. I hope guys appointed won’t only be focused in kitting out the ministries with the latest ICT gadgetry but will aid implement systems (content?) to improve internal efficiencies and service delivery. For instance, the CTO in the health ministry can start by coming up with a blueprint for a National Health Management System which can, among other things, help identify potential disease outbreaks and aid in mobilization of resources to avert such.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1f497d">The Education CTO can aid in coming up with Learning Systems that the laptop recipients can use to make the machines truly meaningful in creating a digital generation. For instance, he can come up with a way to implement MIT’s popular Scratch programming language which aims to make young learners digital creators rather than just consumers. Or a system that can detect poor performance in lower grades so that necessary early interventions can take place to improve outcomes in KCPE or KCSE for given counties. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1f497d">I guess nirvana will be attained if we can get guys who are both domain as well as ICT experts to drive the kind of ICT revolution that GoKe needs. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1f497d">Whatever systems implemented should have a cross functional coherence across all ministries. For instance, my details should be centrally updated but available across all ministries etc.. There should also be information sharing but within the limits of the Privacy Act which can aid the Security guys to identify patterns and potentially take out the bad guys before they cause mayhem.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1f497d">I think each county should also have CTOs in addition to their ICT Country Execs to liaise with the Ministry CTOs.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1f497d">Lastly, it is my hope that this initiative will help local ICT companies to win government tenders, particularly for sound locally developed solutions or even consultancies.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> kictanet [mailto:<a href="mailto:kictanet-bounces%2Bjmasiwe" target="_blank">kictanet-bounces+jmasiwe</a>=<a href="mailto:bluegate.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">bluegate.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>S.M. Muraya via kictanet<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 18, 2014 4:47 PM<br><b>To:</b> John Masiwe<br><b>Subject:</b> [kictanet] New ICT chiefs to drive growth<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p>
The government has created a new position of chief information officer in technology in every ministry to help it keep pace with fast-changing ICT world... <u></u><u></u></p>
<p><a href="http://mobile.nation.co.ke/business/ICT-Ministries-Government-Fred-Matiangi/-/1950106/2351838/-/format/xhtml/-/qfqw4i/-/index.html" target="_blank">http://mobile.nation.co.ke/business/ICT-Ministries-Government-Fred-Matiangi/-/1950106/2351838/-/format/xhtml/-/qfqw4i/-/index.html</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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