Greetings, I do hope you are well and Happy KiGF preparations to ISOCers! Many opportunities are bound to be there; - Speed of response is enhanced - Ease of surveys; know what the peoples ambitions are for planning - Ease of sharing area specific tips e.g farmer - Ease of emergency alerts e.g locusts sited in one side of the agro-county or matatu strike, floods in Budalangi East road washed away! - The numerous Government and NGO driven forums on social, economic, political matters may be communicated easily to - Spur access from e-health, e-policing etc and My favorite spur "e-education" for anyone, anywhere in the county! On the inverse; - Lack of privacy - Security (county/national) information potential over exposure - Hacking of information - Conniving to "steal" county resources including monies, information and blaming the internet e.g internet-based ghost funds transfers from county accounts - Potential loss of jobs - Potential redesign of jobs wrt governance, I am concerned that; - Noone is said to "own" the internet yet any information going via the internet somehow can be tracked. This means that there is no security of information shares - Down time; this may really hold up the County in delivering services-when organisations automate or upload services on the Internet, all other forms used before are discontinued normally making the staff useless in sorting out an issue and the Customer Service Call Centre just busy making PR promised without any certainty - Certain services (broadly ICTs) are promotion of business interests of players versus meeting actual needs of users - The human contact and how it is enhanced even with spread of internet based services. Otherwise Paper is still the "safest", assured medium we have for the longest Have a pleasant day. Regards/Wangari --- Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - "Being of the Light, We are Restored Through Faith in Mind, Body and Spirit; We Manifest The Kingdom of God on Earth". ________________________________ From: Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>; "isoc@orion.my.co.ke" <isoc@lists.my.co.ke>; Skunkworks forum <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Sent: Monday, 22 July 2013, 21:58 Subject: [ISOC_KE] Kenya Internet Governance Forum Online Discussions Day one: Internet and the Counties Listers, As we prepare for the Kenya Internet Governance Forum to be held at Strathmore Business School on July 26th 2013, we would like to jumpstart the discussions through our mailing lists. Today we discuss the role of the Internet in our new devolved governance system:, the questions are as follows: 1. How can the Internet be used to facilitate Citizen participation in the county governments? 2. How can the Internet be used to facilitate service Delivery in the County Governments? 3. How can the Internet be used to promote good governance in the counties? 4. What opportunities does the Internet offer the counties from an economic perspective? The floor is open... -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno http://www.otienobarrack.me.ke/ _______________________________________________ isoc mailing list isoc@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc