<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>From the apparent justifications for the regulations, I think some issues are being conflated, unfortunately. I am thinking at least 3 issues exist and could be dealt with separately.</div><div><br></div><div>1. <i>Accidents and crime </i>- Might it help to broaden the regulations to cover normal offline taxis. If anything digital taxi-hailing provides increased possibility for passenger safety than normal taxis. It seems pointless to provide a fix for what is not really broken.<br></div><div>2.<i> Owners / Drivers / Operator feuding on commercials</i> - These ideally should be maintained as commercial leasing agreements (drivers with owners) and marketing service agreements (Drivers with operators). The employer-employee narrative misses the point on the platform economy where actors should be considered autonomous and responsive to the market forces.</div><div>3. <i>Tax evasion and revenue collection - </i>This seems to be the main thrust of the regulations. To check on tax evasion by operators - Uber, Bolt, etc is welcome and timely. Legal technicalities on tax avoidance will remain. To squeeze out more taxes and fees from drivers and vehicle owners is fair - not sure about timely - If it were me, I would let the gig economy grow roots first, for a couple more years.</div></div><div><br></div>Kind regards<div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 9:10 AM Liz Orembo 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:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Good morning listers,<div><br></div><div>Today we will talk about Digital Hailing Services Regulations and the licensing of the Service Operators under part 1 of the regulations. </div><div><br></div><div>Looking at the document, it seems like the NTSA is trying to regulate the industry following the recent incidents that have come up: eg accidents, assisted crimes and digital taxi drivers woes. These regulations will require any digital hailing services; Uber, Bolt, and Swivl, to register in Kenya and operate under the Kenyan laws. They will also obtain operating licences from the NTSA.</div><div><br></div><div>We would like to hear your views on this:</div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div>a. Are the regulations necessary? </div></div><div><div>b. Is NTSA the right/best body to regulate Digital Hailing Transport Services?</div></div><div><div>c. What are the likely impacts in the transport industry, Information Society Sector and gig economy? etc</div></div><div><div>d. Should multinationals be subjected to different licensing requirements?</div></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div>Here are some resources to guide our discussions.</div><div>1. Bolt, uber among taxi apps ordered to get licences or get off road. <a href="https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2020-02-04-uber-bolt-among-taxi-apps-ordered-to-get-licences-or-get-off-road/" target="_blank">https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2020-02-04-uber-bolt-among-taxi-apps-ordered-to-get-licences-or-get-off-road/</a></div><div>2. Can California reign tech-gig platforms? A primer on the bold state law that will try. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/14/can-california-reign-techs-gig-platforms-primer-bold-state-law-that-will-try/" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/14/can-california-reign-techs-gig-platforms-primer-bold-state-law-that-will-try/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Over to you listers.</div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br><div><font style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif" size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Best regards.<br>
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