<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:x-small">One of the most beautiful thing about code, has been the fact that anyone, a janitor, a driver, a young kid, a nurse, watchman, anyone, can, if they love it badly enough, grab a set of books and tutorials, and teach themselves and create something. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work, but when it does, it changes their lives, and maybe, adds value to the target market/environment. Please don't take that away, in a quest for fulfilling the desire to control, once upon a time, to be an innovator you needed the patronage of kings, may we not be taken back there, anyway, even if, its tried, it wouldn't work, if someone has all resources they need to learn something, they will do it, <br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Ngigi Waithaka 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><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>My take,<br><br></div>Some things are just ridiculous..<br><br></div>You have a HR Administrator, A Programmer, Office Administrator, an IP Lawyer, a sweeper, a Cyber Security expert all five working for:<br></div>a)A banks IT department<br></div>b) An insurance firms IT department<br></div>c) A manufacturing firm IT department<br></div>d) An IT consulting business<br></div>e)A software engineering firm<br><br></div>Give me one set of laws regulating them?<br><br></div>You regulate individuals in *professions* not in an industry. Thats why in a bank, the HR Administrator gets regulated by HR association etc, Lawyer gets regulated by ISK, the Programmer (based on whatever courses he's taken and/or experience etc) by their respective bodies and/or experience etc<br><br></div>In an industry, you regulate final products and/or final services delivered! <br><br></div>Now, what are some of the professions we have in the software industry?<br></div>1. Programmers / developers<br></div>2. System Administrators<br></div>3. Database Administrators<br></div>4. Enterprise Architects<br></div>5. UX Designers<br><br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Now, try making a common regulation for those 5 out of a possible hundreds...</div><div><br></div><div>Finally, for those us in software, you will agree its more art at some point than science, so how do you regulate art? <br></div><div><br></div><div>Do you tell Picasso he can't paint because he wasn't certified as an painter? Do you tell Franco he can't sing because he wasn't certified as a singer? Do you tell a young Bill Gates he can't write software because he wasn't certified in computer science?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div>Regards<br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Watila Alex via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:inherit;margin:0" id="m_8400936094460404459m_4489591660655368531yMail_cursorElementTracker_1512309401527">EricKigada: Kenya’s controversial ICT Practitioners Bill 2016 to be tabled in parliament again
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