I do believe that KRA pin registration has been available all over Kenya in cyber cafes. I do think it is important that the County Governments take steps at entrenching ICT in its day to day service delivery. Early this week I needed to write to KARI Kakamega office but to my shock it was a yahoo.co.uk address and this was openly put up on their website. Now as if that was not enough, it bounced. Now while Kari has done a great job in decentralising, I think as with most of the government departments, use of ICT is still lagging behind. One way to address this I believe is to ensure that NOFBI is actually utilised and for those counties that are not utilizing this readily available infra, a penalty should be levied so that it becomes punitive to sit with idle infrastructure. Secondly training of County Governors and their executive offices on the role of ICT in their day to day operations as well as advocacy at a National level. My initial thoughts.. On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Adam Nelson <adam@varud.com> wrote:
I'll bet that all of those government officers have 'work' emails but the ghetto Exchange/Qmail/Zimbra installations floating around this country just don't work. What I've seen in my limited time here (6 months) is that there's no focus on even 1 year ahead when it comes to ITC systems. This is not just a public sector problem although it's most obvious there.
The issue seems most commonly to be some sharp kid comes out of school, sets something up that nobody else knows how to use, and then if he's really smart moves to a better job, leaving the unmaintained system behind, or if he's not so smart, sticks around but doesn't have the wherewithal to maintain and improve the system. Either way is problematic. What needs to happen is for local leaders to create more environments of excellence. Even a 3 or 4 person team of sharp tech people can do amazing things with ITC if they're given a budget and empowered to make things happen - a little political cover is all they really need from their bosses. I know there are alot of smart young people around (I've met them), but the old people are just strangling them.
-Adam
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On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke> wrote:
One thing that irks me to no end is up to today we see government officers both at the county level and national level communicating via email using yahoo, hotmail and gmail accounts yet the transition authority has already registered all the counties using the .go.ke extension. Can this be expedited?
Lets ensure basic ICT 101 cascades to the counties. Ensure we get this right as we talk about the big stuff..opendata, ERPs etc.
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On Jul 23, 2013, at 11:43 AM, Daniel Otieno Omondi <dottocomp@yahoo.com> wrote:
1.KRA pin registration will be at county level/ Tax Returns 2. E-ticketing will boost county transportation system 3. E-transport/wi-fi in matatus/minibuses 4. E-marketing of various produce in different counties 5. E-tendering of county services to the county residence 6. Website development for the counties and Domain Name Registrations and so on and so forth....
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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...
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