<div dir="auto">Hey Kanini, sorry I posted this on another thread, let me reprise below:-<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Good morning Senator Halake,</span><br></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Glad to have you on board.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Just a few remarks I got to make:-</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- Maybe as you start off, now more than ever, would be a good time for the Senate committee to commission a robust in-depth study/review across the nation - (go on the ground). There, a clearer picture will emerge. If this was ever to happen, please ensure you bring on board such diligently good objective ICT experts as this is a purely technical exercise that will aid you in the feasibility study, and this list has plenty of jolly good experts. We need to do a comprehensive SWOT analysis sweep across the land to ensure we equally chart a robustly comprehensive ICT roadmap going forward. Let the overarching objective be to bridge the widening digital divide across this country, once and for all. This time let's get it right for posterity. I strongly think some studies commissioned in the past, could also be sitting somewhere.You could also benefit from these. Do engage C.A, and ICT Authority and others. Time to bring out these drafts and subject them to scrutiny.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- From this commissioned feasibility study, let's please look forward to a draft blueprint as a product emerging that could underpin the ICT vision going forward, possibly some odd 20-40 years ahead, let this be subjected to a thorough review for refining and also benchmark against the best case studies around the world to ensure that we also tap into the emerging global technological innovations and best practices.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- Huduma centres was one of the best ideas mooted and implemented, if it can be strengthened, improved and innovated further for cost effective service delivery, the much better. Please, can the senate look into how the product can be further devolved to counties that are missing out on the action at the moment.? IMHO , methinks the USAF fund could play a big role in this direction in order to ensure that critical services are accessible at the grassroot level and to bridge this digital gap.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- Meanwhile, the academic centres are a crucial component in enabling us empower, train, mentor and equip the next generation set of innovators and service delivery personnel. As you refocus, this needs to be a centrepiece of your ICT vision at the devolved units. At each Huduma unit, we could also come up with a centre of IT excellence that can train both young and old at a subsidized cost. Again USAF can play a big role here.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Thanks,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Harry</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 Feb 2018 07:30, "kanini mutemi via kictanet" <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><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:georgia,serif"><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">Good morning Listers, <br></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">Welcome to Day 1 of 'Talk to the Senate'. This must have been what the framers of the Constitution had in mind when they entrenched public participation as a key constitutional principle- an opportunity for us to make a case on what we think ought to be the Senate's priority 2017-2022. I therefore encourage that we all participate in this session and look forward to an animated discussion. </p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">As Grace had briefed us on Friday, we will have a three day discussion focusing on the counties and opportunities for intervention by the Senate. </p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">This being the first day, our goal is to bring out issues of concern in the counties as far as ICT is concerned. Once we have these, we will proceed to make proposals on how the Senate may be of help in resolving these issues on Day 2. On Day 3, we will discuss how to foster engagements between the ICT community and the legislature. </p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">This is our guiding question for today–</p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><font color="#0000ff"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><i><font color="#0000ff">What do you consider to be the ICT </font></i></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><i><font color="#0000ff"> (a) challenges; </font></i></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><i><font color="#0000ff"> (b) risks; and </font></i></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><i><font color="#0000ff"> (c) opportunities in the counties?</font></i></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">As well, if there are ICT success stories coming out of the counties, feel free to highlight them. </p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">We are honoured to have Senator Abshiro Halake (Vice Chairperson, Senate ICT Committee) on the list. Senator, karibu sana. </p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">This discussion is now open! </p></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_1197438888186205956gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b>Mercy Mutemi, Advocate</b>. <br></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b><i><br></i></b></span></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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