To add on to that the Internet also presents a good opportunity to generate local content. I hope that County Governments and civil society organisations in the counties use it up! Regards, 2013/7/23 WANGARI KABIRU <wangarikabiru@yahoo.co.uk>

Greetings Rop,

I hope you are well.

I like the opportunity for cross sharing information between counties - getting to know with ease what others are doing and borrowing the how.

Kama kawaida - all the Tech language must be "mwananchinised" as most of the persons to be introduced to are not at that level. This also applies to the decision makers!

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:* Gideon <gideonrop@gmail.com> *To:* Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> *Cc:* Skunkworks forum <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>; "isoc@lists.my.co.ke" < isoc@lists.my.co.ke> *Sent:* Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 11:05 *Subject:* [ISOC_KE] Kenya Internet Governance Forum Online Discussions Day one: Internet and the Counties

Thanks for this topic,

The Internet offers a very good opportunity for open governance in terms of information flow to the Citizens. This means that the County governments can endeavor to ensure that there is transparency and that every detail of developement is made available to the citizens as it happens.

It also acts as a good resource for crowd sourcing where all the County Govts have a central portal/database where all updates and information is accumulated as well as distributed, this will increase accountability and as such they can be rated based on real time analysis available through ICT systems deployed.

Warmest Regards, Rop DotConnectAfrica

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com>wrote:

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...

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