<div dir="auto"><br><span style="font-family:sans-serif">This is a very contentious issue with multiple and divergent interests.</span><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div><span style="font-family:sans-serif">As Ali would put it Kila mwamba ngoma is going to vuta kwake </span> <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But let me start with congratulating you all for showing up to do this again, it clearly wasn't going to be a one time stand <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> <span style="font-family:sans-serif">On top of just fighting, this time we must be the ones to figure it out as well.</span><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As some fight and others make noise and throw tantrums, while the majority flee and bury their heads -- in true Kenya style...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have listed below 11 key lessons we could borrow from the previous lobbying efforts in the first round.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">They are:<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1. Find out the political reasons behind the bill</div><div dir="auto"> --- there is always a few and they are the only ones that matter.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">2. Work with the mover and chairs very very closely but don't forget the researchers, committee members and support staff.</div><div dir="auto">---major influences oftenly ignored to the peril of many.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">3. Lobby both one on one and committee. </div><div dir="auto">---The members are smart human beings with personal views and positions that may not surface in group hearings for political and other reasons. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">---The one on one's give a view into the undercurrents and nuances in the committee proceedings preparing us not to react but respond effectively.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">4. Have a unified agenda and scenarios for both the fundamentals and specifics.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">--generalities and differences only serve to make the point that we are disorganised and don't know what we want. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">5. Give specific line by line recommendations. </div><div dir="auto">--It easier to negotiate specifics</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">6. Educate the committee members about implications of each clause. </div><div dir="auto">--don't assume they know and or connect with your views and context. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">7. This is going to be a hard, rough and windy road thus plan for both the best and worst outcomes. </div><div dir="auto">--Frastration is a key strategy in the making of sausages that lawmaking is. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">8. That even within the sector we will detractors, armchair critics and lone ranger self seekers.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">---not everyone is saying what they mean and not few things are what they seem to be. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">10. Focus on what people really need beyond what what they seem to seek. </div><div dir="auto"> -- Be open to giving more than you expect to give and take much less than you bargain for. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">11. Whoever hangs on long enough will have the best chance to win. </div><div dir="auto">--We've done it before and we can do it again and again if that's what it takes. </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 9:21 AM Barry Macharia via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Dear All <div><br></div><div>This is back in parliament again </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.cio.co.ke/kenyas-controversial-ict-practitioners-bill-re-emerges/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.cio.co.ke/kenyas-controversial-ict-practitioners-bill-re-emerges/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>regards </div><div>Barry </div><div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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