<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">@Robert, I have taken a look at Jadili and I must say this is impressive. <a href="http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/the-computer-and-cybercrimes-bill,-2017" class="">http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/the-computer-and-cybercrimes-bill,-2017</a> I see how this could even reduce the paper work involved in collecting public comment, collating these and preparing a public participation Memorandum. Live feedback and an indication of how many people support/oppose a Bill makes it even more useful. <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 7 Feb 2018, at 10:19, Robert Muthuri via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" class="">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.6pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">Dear Kanini, </div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.6pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.6pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">I second
Barack and extend his sentiments by alluding to my immediate comments on the
Jadili platform. The public participation framework should include a component
on how to use developments in legal informatics in guaranteeing public
participation by the citizenry on decisions affecting them. If we can annotate
bills at such granular levels as section/subsection/paragraph etc, a ready use
case would be to crowdsource for comments and show which sections/amendments
are most favoured and which aren't. That helps to hold legislators accountable
and also to confront amendments that are sneaked into bills last minute. </div><p style="margin:0in;font-family:arial;font-size:9.6pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.6pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">We have related case studies to avail while doing this - Kenya leads the continent and has
one of the most progressive law reporting portals owing to joint efforts by the
AG's office, the Kenya Law Reform Commission, the Africa i-Parliaments Action
Plan, UN/DESA and Lexis Nexis. What that means is for instance that eKLR now
incorporate the latest Legislative XML standards such as Akoma Ntoso which
makes their open data way more beneficial to those harnessing and adding value
to it e.g. in my research work. </div>
<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Kind regards, </font></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Robert</font></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 9:36 AM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank" class="">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Good morning Kanini,<br class=""><br class=""></div>There is need for a proper framework that defines meaningful public participation which should be adhered to by the National and County government. KICTAnet developed a tool kit that should be considered by the Senate. At the very minimum the Senate should be providing feedback whenever it calls the public as it did last year during the elections amendment debate, honestly the wahehimiwas earn sitting allowances while the public spends their precious time to contribute to their work yet no feedback is provided. We need urgent feedback on the ICT policy, we also need feedback on the public participation exercise that culminated in the elections amendment act.<br class=""><br class=""></div>I would also like to take this opportunity to applaud senator Halake for engaging stakeholders electronically through the KICTAnet mailing list, i think the senate can take advantage of mailing lists and Social Media to engage the public provided the engagement is well structured and based on a public participation framework.<br class=""><br class=""></div>Best<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><div class="h5">On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 9:10 AM, kanini mutemi via kictanet <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank" class="">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr class="">></span> wrote:<br class=""></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="h5"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Dear Listers, </span><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Welome to the third and final day of the Talk to the Senate series. We have discussed at length the challenges facing the counties and made exciting proposals for a brighter future. We will culminate this discussion with an earnest look at how we can foster engagements between the ICT community and the legislature (think, effective public participation). The proposals we come up with could very easily be adopted into a Public Participation Bill that would dictate how counties are to conduct public participation, talk about killing two birds with one stone. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">Please indulge me in answering the following questions–</font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">(a) What constitutes effective public participation? </font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">(b) How can we leverage on ICT to achieve effective public participation?</font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">(c) Please give proposals on engagements you would like to see between the ICT community and the Senate ICT Committee. </font></span></div></blockquote><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Let us finish strong! </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""></div></div>______________________________<wbr class="">_________________<br class="">
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