<div dir="ltr">Good Morning Liz,<div><br></div><div>I see an opportunity for Open Data to boost transparency+future preparedness, e.g. a portal/site where Kenyans and interested parties can track progress on;</div><div><br></div><div>a) Donations received and their allocations (Monetary + in-kind) e.g. World Bank has already given $50M, Danish Government $3.2M </div><div>b) Medical supplies (produced + donated) and their allocations </div><div>c) Average spending per patient until recovery in different hospitals across the country - might inform future preparedness </div><div><br></div><div>Basically, trying to capture as much data as we can and learn from this process.</div><div><br></div><div>Hoping to hear what other listers think, especially those in open data. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Stephen Machua </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 12:59 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>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><li><b>Economic and Finance Issues - </b>Includes macro economic effects, measures that the government can take to cushion SMEs and borrowers.</li><li><b>Social, Public order and Human Rights - </b> Includes protection of vulnerable groups, and enforcement of curfews </li><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><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><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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