FYI -----Original Message----- From: nairobi-gnu@googlegroups.com [mailto:nairobi-gnu@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Schofield Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2016 11:37 AM To: nairobi-gnu@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [nairobilug] Draft National ICT policy This could be a crushing blow to Kenya's ICT industry. If the USA had such a law then so many of their major ICT companies would never have happened. To name but 2, neither Steve Jobs nor Bill Gates gained any formal ICT qualifications, in fact neither of them passed a degree in anything. Several of the leading Linux kernel developers have no formal ICT training. Tim On 4 July 2016 at 14:04, Tony White <tony.mzungu@gmail.com> wrote:

...and *this*:

http://kenyalaw.org/kl/fileadmin/pdfdownloads/bills/2016/InformationCo mmunicationTechnologyPractitioners_Bill_2016.pdf

Which was introduced in the National Assembly last week, which will rquire all ICT 'practitioners' to be licenced (annually!!) and registered, with examination of qualifications, and ongoing 'training'!!

Phew!!

Tony

On 04/07/2016, Ibrahim Ng'eno <eebrah@gmail.com> wrote:

...

Y'all have seen this[1], yes?

[1] http://www.information.go.ke/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Draft-Nationa l-ICT-Policy-20June2016.pdf

-- Ibrahim

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