<div dir="auto">Dear Liz,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Well put! Can kictanet advocate for free internet at this time of COVID-19. Or just free internet days even if on a sunday. Safaricom is taken advantage of the situation. The bundles are running out faster than before. Who wants to join in pushing for lowering costs of internet especially at this hour of need. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, 16:03 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:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thank you Barrack.<div> </div><div>Indeed we don't have to reinvent the wheel. Africa has dealt with a pandemic before and community based solutions worked well in the case of Ebola. How can such initiatives like <a href="http://covid19.ke" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">covid19.ke</a> expand to the villages? Can the government work with ushahidi to provide data for mapping? They are already collecting this data and following the leads for testing. I wish such mapping could also help kenyans make judgements on their commuting.</div><div><br></div><div>I like the way this situation has forced people to embrace technology. My mum's vicar delivered her sermon last sunday through youtube. But unfortunately the situation also exposes inequality of internet access. You know the experience of streaming youtube videos on safaricom bundles. They vanish no sooner than!</div><div><br></div><div>@wash waiting for your views on how the tech community can help.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 12:11 PM Barrack Otieno <<a href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</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 dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Liz and listers,</div><div><br></div><div>My responses in line<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 9:54 AM Liz Orembo via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">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>Good morning listers,</div><div><br></div><div>The senate has established an ad-hoc committee that will oversee the responses of the national and county governments to the covid 19 pandemic. The committee has issued a call for submissions on the following themes.</div><div><ol><li><b>Health </b>- includes community health, testing centers, mental health, role and engagement of county governments.</li></ol></div></div></blockquote><div><b>BO : Instead of re-inventing the wheel why don't we coalesce around efforts such as COVID-19.Ke. You cannot manage what you don't know, we need to know areas that have been hit the hardest to ensure correct measures are taking to avoid any further spread. The Ushahidi platform on the above link can help us to monitor and control the spread of COVID-19.</b><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><ol><li><b>Economic and Finance Issues - </b>Includes macro economic effects, measures that the government can take to cushion SMEs and borrowers.</li></ol></div></div></blockquote><div><b>BO: The government has an elaborate structure from the County Commissioners to Chiefs to Chairman of Nyumba Kumi. We can encourage sharing for information through Whatsapp to identify needy cases, those that might need food and other humanitarian support to survive. I propose that Whatsapp be made totally free on all Networks to facilitate communication.</b><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><ol><li><b>Social, Public order and Human Rights - </b> Includes protection of vulnerable groups, and enforcement of curfews</li></ol></div></div></blockquote><div><b>BO : We need to combine Government and Community Structures to continuously inform, educate and possibly find ways of entertaining the Community in ways that will result in behavior change. Over communication is the key word.</b><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><ol><li><b>Access to Food, Water and other basic commodities </b>Includes measures to support continuous production and supply of essential services at affordable prices. Food, water etc</li></ol></div></div></blockquote><div><b>BO : encourage citizens to utilise available resources carefully. Encourage citizens to take care of each other within local communities and share what they have while maintaining the guidelines that will avoid the spread of the pandemic.</b><br></div><div> </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><ol><li><b>Support services and cross cutting issues - </b>Includes awareness creation, how to combat stigmatization and network access across the country.</li></ol></div></div></blockquote><div><b>BO . As indicated above let us coalesce around initiatives such as <a href="http://covid-19.ke" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">covid-19.ke</a>, the hrose has already bolted, we cannot start new initiatives , let us bolster existing initiatives.</b><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><div>Listers, what are your views? How can ICTs help in these 5 areas? and how can the government improve its communication and network connectivity across the country? </div><div><br></div><div>Please find attached the call for public participation with more details. The deadline for submission is 8th April. </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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