<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">Hi Walu & team,</font><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">My comments are on the Jadili platform.</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Overall, we need to ensure we are writing a policy document that goes beyond "<i><b>keeping abreast with current ICT the current ICT technology</b></i>." For the ICT sector, things get obsolete the moment they are accepted as being "current". So let us go beyond that and plan for "emerging and futuristic" by facilitating innovation.</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">As Prof. Waema stated, the drafting of the document seems to have been rushed. I noticed the section without any comments/annotations titled "<b><i>ICT Professional Bodies</i></b>" and which stated: </font></div><div><i><b><font color="#000000"><span class="" style="font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:26px;background:rgba(255,255,10,0.298039)"><br></span></font></b></i></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><font color="#000000"><span class="" style="font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:26px;background-image:initial;background-color:rgba(255,255,10,0.298039);background-repeat:initial">T</span><span class="" style="font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:26px;background-image:initial;background-color:rgba(255,255,10,0.298039);background-repeat:initial">he Government will </span><span class="" style="font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:26px;background-image:initial;background-color:rgba(255,255,10,0.298039);background-repeat:initial">recognize </span><span class="" style="font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:26px;background-image:initial;background-color:rgba(255,255,10,0.298039);background-repeat:initial">and encourage the formation of national ICT professional bodies registered under the laws of Kenya to foster professional ethics, standards and human resource development in the sector</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:26px">.</span></font></i></blockquote></blockquote><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Apart from the comments made elsewhere on the "ICT Practitioners Bill", the policy should make it clear that this section does not call for a single 'umbrella' body<span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:italic;line-height:16.9px;background-color:rgba(251,251,251,0.980392)"> </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.9px;background-color:rgba(251,251,251,0.980392)">as ICTAK attempted to have enacted </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:italic;line-height:16.9px;background-color:rgba(251,251,251,0.980392)">but rather the recognition of the roles of the various professional bodies and multi-stakeholder forums.</span></font></div><div><br></div><div>A similar approach applies to <u>Broadcasting professionals</u> especially the ones involved in "technical aspects of broadcasting" who have to deal with convergence but are always caught up in fixing the crisis created by the public broadcasting or media owners failing to adopt convergence, not just in terms of 'converged technology', but also <u><i>convergence in their operations</i></u>:</div><div> </div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><i>(n) Encouraging national professional bodies for media practitioners to participate in setting standards in broadcasting. Also encourage media training institutions to provide structured specialized programmes that cater for people with talent for creative writing, film production, animation creative and <span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-color:rgba(255,255,10,0.298039);background-repeat:initial">technical aspects of broadcasting</span></i></blockquote></blockquote><div><span class="" style="background:rgba(255,255,10,0.298039)"><br></span></div><div><span class="" style="background:rgba(255,255,10,0.298039)"><br></span></div><div>Lastly, there is no mention of <u>Freedom of Information</u> as a concept. Only "Access to Information" is covered and in reference to making government websites accessible and sharing government content with private sector for reuse. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Wainaina</div><div> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><img src="https://docs.google.com/a/madeinkenya.org/uc?id=0BwZb4A-LDS-AUDRMWDFTSzIteXM&export=download" width="96" height="76" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"></div><div><font size="2"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Titillium,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic;font-weight:600;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:28.7999992370605px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(153,153,153);text-align:center;background-color:rgb(241,241,241)">Watch African TV live online and learn about </span></font><span style="font-size:small;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Titillium,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic;font-weight:600;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:28.8px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(153,153,153);text-align:center;background-color:rgb(241,241,241)">Digital Television policy, regulation and technology in Africa on issues relating to Consumers, Content and Coverage.</span><span style="font-size:small;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:Titillium,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic;line-height:28.8px;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(241,241,241)"> </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 12:25 PM, esther nyambura 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 dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Lastly....</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">The Vision should
reflect not just consumption but also production and the same should be
reflected in the overall strategies applied in the policy. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Example:
Vision: “</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">A
Kenya that is an ICT<b> </b>Consumption and Production Powerhouse”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">A little
ambitious but we have to dream big if we are serious about becoming an ICT driven society. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Find
attached brief comments already submitted for further clarity on this.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Good
work Walu, much appreciated.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Kamande.</span></p></div><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Aparajita,sans-serif"> </span><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Florence Etta via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><span><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(31,73,125)">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><u style="font-size:12.8px"></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Current Vision - A prosperous and competitive ICT-driven Kenyan society.</span><br></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(31,73,125)">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Current Mission - To improve the livelihoods of Kenyans by ensuring the <b>availability</b> of accessible, efficient, reliable, affordable and secure ICT services.<u></u><u></u></span></p></span><div style="font-size:x-small"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">My contribution!</font></span></div><div style="font-size:x-small"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Proposed Vision: A country where ICTs are enabling prosperity through creativity and competitiveness in all sectors and levels of society </font></span></div><div style="font-size:x-small"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">Proposed Mission - All ICT professionals, practitioners and relevant stakeholders will work together to improve the</span></font><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">availability and </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">accessibility of </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px">secure, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">efficient, reliable and affordable ICT services in/to all parts of the country.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Interesting read well done Walu & all.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Cheers,</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">FE</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span><i><font size="1"><br></font></i></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<div style="font-size:x-small;display:inline"></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Mildred Achoch via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>Today Safaricom was launching its SDG integration campaign. Going with that example, I propose the vision to be something like: " A society where ICT is used to achieve the SDG goals."<div><div><br><br>On Tuesday, July 5, 2016, Walubengo J via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div>Listers,</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thanx all for your contributions over the last 9days. Today we wrap up the online discussions by going back to the the beginning. We look at the Vision Mission Overarching Objectives of the Draft ICT Policy.</div><div><span></span></div><div><span></span><br></div><div><span><b>Background</b></span></div><div><span></span><br></div><div><span>The Vision is the dream, where you want to be 10, 15, 20years from now. </span>The Mission is what you need to do regularly to get there, while the Objectives are intermediary milestones, the specific, measurable and achievable targets to guide you towards your mission and vision. It would be nice to have one objective per thematic area but do not be constrained by that.</div><div><span></span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span>Just wear your creative hat and float out what Vision, Mission and Overarching objectives you propose for our ICT policy in any manner :-)</span></div><div><span></span><br></div><div><span>You may also opt to propose amendments to the proposed Vision, Mission & Objectives as hosted on </span><a href="http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/kenya-ict-policy" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">Jadili platform. </a><br></div><div dir="ltr">1Day on this issue.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-walu.</div></div></div></blockquote><br><br></div></div><span><font color="#888888">-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>Check out the Rock 'n' roll film festival, Kenya TV Channel! <br><a href="http://kenyarockfilmfestivaljournal.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://kenyarockfilmfestivaljournal.blogspot.com</a><br><br></div></div><br>
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