<div dir="ltr">its high time organisation starts treating information system as an assets in thier financial reporting. its pity that auditing is only done by accountant thus leaving valuation of organisation ICT based information</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 8:22 PM, Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) 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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Dear Listers, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Please find on this <a href="https://www.kictanet.or.ke/?p=36387" target="_blank">link</a> a report on freedom online in the just concluded election period. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">In a nutshell: </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><ul><li>Kenya undertook a big experiment on delivery of public services through mobile Internet. <br></li><li>Notably, the country did not have an Internet shutdown unlike many other African countries that have had election related disruptions in the last three years<br></li><li>There was massive mis and disinformation that kept many online to counter, discount and discuss social problems in the country. <br></li><li> While online rights are guaranteed, trends towards information controls for example election results are a cause for concern, hence the title of the report,<i> Moving forward while looking back</i><br></li></ul></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Going forward, there is need for discussion on Kenya's strategy in the data economy including aspects such whether perceive data as a national asset, our preparedness for the data economy, equitable sharing of benefits from data such as election data and of course protection of personal data. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Regards,</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-5556265251715350001gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Grace Mutung'u <br>Skype: gracebomu<br>@Bomu<br><span style="font-size:12.8px">PGP ID : 0x33A3450F</span><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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