<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531777"><span>@Ali,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531778"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531781"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531780">This model (Indian Institute of Tech) might solve our challenge of establishing regional 'ICT centers of Excellence', a statement that was captured in our 2006 Policy but never saw the light of day...</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531784"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531784">It also feeds into the broader concept of a national innovation system as envisioned in the Sci, Tech & Innov Act 2013.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531786"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531788"><span>walu.</span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531790"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531806" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531805"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531804"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531803"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531802"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531801"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, June 24, 2016 8:43 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kictanet] Day 3 of 10: How to Develop Skilled Human Capital<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531842"><br><div id="yiv3355943796"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531841"><div>Walu</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531915"><span style=""><br clear="none"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531859"><span style=""><b>Human Resource Development and Training. </b>The policy document mentions </span><span style="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531858">the Establishment of ICT Centers of Excellence. I propose the government </span><span style="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531917">goes one step further and Establish <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531916">The Kenya Institutes of Technology (KITs) </b></span><span style="">fashioned around the Indian Institutes of Technology.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531843"><span style=""><br clear="none"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531840"><span style="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_531839">The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are autonomous public institutes </span><span style="">of higher education, located in India. They are governed by the Institutes </span><span style="">of Technology Act, 1961 which has declared them as institutions of national </span><span style="">importance and lays down their powers, duties, and framework for governance </span><span style="">etc. Each IIT is an autonomous institution, linked to the others through a common IIT Council, which oversees their administration. The Union HRD Minister is the ex-officio Chairperson of IIT Council.</span></div><div><span style=""><br clear="none"></span></div><div><span style="">The IITs have a common admission process for undergraduate admissions, called IIT-JEE, which was replaced by Joint Entrance Examination Advanced in 2013. The post-graduate level program that awards M-Tech, MS degrees in engineering is administered by the older IITs (Kharagpur, Bombay, Madras, Kanpur, Delhi, Dhanbad, Roorkee, Varanasi, Guwahati). M.Tech and MS admissions are done on the basis of Graduate Aptitude Test In Engineering GATE). In addition to B.Tech, M.Tech and MS programs, IITs also award other graduate degrees such as M.Sc in Maths, Physics and Chemistry, MBA, PhD etc. Admission to these programs of IITs is done through Common Admission Tests (CAT), Joint Admission Tests for Masters (JAM) and Common Entrance Examination for Design (CEED). IIT Guwahati and IIT Bombay offer undergraduate design programmes as well. Joint Seat Allocation Authority 2015 (JoSAA 2015) conducted the joint admission process for a total of 18 IITs, ISM Dhanbad.</span></div><div><span style=""><br clear="none"></span></div><div><span style=""><b>Source: Wikipedia.</b></span></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>My gut feeling tells me that this particular singular focus on technology and engineering training is the reason why today Indians are by far the most dominant force in ICT across the world. Walk across Silicon Valley tech companies and see how dominant they are. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>There is no shame in replicating and tweaking for our own selfish ends what has worked in other parts of the world.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><div><div><span style=""><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style=""><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;">+254 0713 601113 / 0770906375</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;"><br clear="none"></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></div><span style=""><font></font></span><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="">Skype: abu-jomo</span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="">LinkedIn: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></div><font><br clear="none"></font></div><div><span style=""><br clear="none"></span></div><div>"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi</div><div><span style=""><br clear="none"></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div></div><div class="yiv3355943796yqt4285155523" id="yiv3355943796yqt59127"><div><br clear="none">On 24 Jun 2016, at 8:18 AM, Walubengo J via kictanet <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495209"><span id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495210"></span>Listers,</div><div id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495209"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495209">Plse feel free to contribute on previous threads as long as you pick the corresponding title. Also remember, for those wishing to directly edit the Draft ICT policy, visit <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3355943796edited-link-editor" id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495438" target="_blank" href="http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/kenya-ict-policy">Jadili platform</a>, register and post.</div><div id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495209"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495209">So onto todays theme:</div><div id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495212"><span id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495213"><b id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495214">How to Develop Skilled Human Capital </b></span></div><div id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495212"><span><b><br clear="none"></b></span></div><div id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495215"><span id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495216">*ICT integration in primary, secondary, tertiary levels,</span></div><div id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495217"><span id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495218">*Specialized Skills (Software /Engineering)</span></div><div id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495219"><span id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495220">*Research & Development Capacity</span></div><div id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495221"><span id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495222">*eLiteracy for citizens/public </span></div><div id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495223"><b><span id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495224"></span><br clear="none" id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495225"></b></div><div id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495226"><span id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495227"><b id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495687">The Background:</b></span></div><div id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495228"><span id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495229">The Digital Literacy Program aka the Laptop project is ongoing and we probably have to wait another 18-20yrs years to see its impact (when today’s std 1s hit the market). But meanwhile, we need skilled human capital to help move us from a net consumer of electronic goods and services into a net producer of the same.</span></div><div id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495230"><span id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495231"></span><br clear="none" id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495232"></div><div id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495233"><span id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495234">Our R&D output in general is quite low (Global Innovation Index 2015) despite the fact that we are leader at a regional level. What should the Policy capture to ensure Kenya churns out a constant supply of highly skilled manpower necessary to drive the digital society.</span></div><div id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495235"><span id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495236"></span><br clear="none" id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495237"></div><div id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495238"><span id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495239">Send in your ideas, comments, strategies, etc. </span></div><div id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495238"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495238"><span id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495545">1Day as usual for the topic.</span></div><div id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495238"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495238"><span>walu.</span></div><div id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495059">
</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495240"><span id="yiv3355943796yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466158741697_495241"> </span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br clear="none"><span>kictanet mailing list</span><br clear="none"><span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a></span><br clear="none"><span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet</a></span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span>Unsubscribe or change your options at <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/info%40alyhussein.com">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/info%40alyhussein.com</a></span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span>The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development.</span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span>KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.</span></div></blockquote></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>