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  • Kenya working on e-govt. with national data, digital archives

    Kenya will soon have its first national data and digital archives centre if discussions currently going on with service and Information Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure vendors become fruitful.

    As part of implementing the proposed government's e-policy, the Kenyan ICT board is reportedly in negotiations with global ICT infrastructure firm EMC of the US.

    The company is the world's largest storage computer maker, providing data centre storage, data consolidation and virtualization including, data security among other solutions.

  • Kenya yet to benefit from ICT

    Kenya is yet to use its assets in terms of human resources and European time zone to make a significant entry into the world market through ICT technologies, a research has shown.

    Commenting on the findings, the Acting Director of Kenya Investment Authority Mwalimu Musee said the sector is currently focused on the local market, providing banking, insurance, cables and telecommunication services, alongside other utilities.

  • Kenya, South Sudan in plan to lay fibre optics to Juba

    Kenya and South Sudan have signed an agreement that will see the two countries connected by fibre optic cable.

    South Sudan’s ICT minister Rebecca Joshua Okwaci and her Kenyan counterpart Fred Matiang’i signed the memorandum of understanding Friday that will actualize laying of the cable from Eldoret to Juba.

    The project, to be funded by World Bank, is set to run concurrently with the construction of the Northern Corridor road network.

  • Kenya: A New Bill for E-Kenya

    Kenyans may soon realize E-commerce if both the Executive and Legislative arms of Government fast-track legislation expected to address several issues in the sub-sector.

    The legislation, which the Highway Africa News Agency (HANA) has learned about is at an advanced stage, and is expected to spur e-commerce and put Kenya at par with other nations, which have embraced the same. It means that individuals and businesses within and outside Kenya will be able to transact without necessarily seeing or even having to know each other physically.

  • Kenya: Automated files welcome

    For many years, Sheria House was nightmarish. Documents would disappear and reappear at the snap of a finger.

    As a result corruption thrived in its corridors as brokers took turns to squeeze bribes out of desperate Kenyans eager to lay hand on official files.

    The files would walk away, literary, as you watched. They would also appear if you bribed!

  • Kenya: Bid to Transfer Technology to Rural Areas

    The Government has embraced a campaign by the private sector to transfer information and communication technology to rural areas.

    Vice-President Moody Awori welcomed the initiative by the Kenya ICT Federation targeting Nyeri, Eldoret, Kisumu, Nakuru and Mombasa starting next week.

    The Power Up with ICT campaign will educate communities on how to transact business on the Internet and mobile telephones, collection of revenue using digital maps and benefits of electronic Government.

  • Kenya: BPO sector gears for cheaper bandwidth

    The government plans to spend $9million (Sh600 million) to subsidise broadband costs in the Business Processing and Outsourcing (BPO) Sector ahead of the much-awaited TEAMS cable.

    Kenya ICT (KICT) Board Chief Executive, Mr Paul Kukubo, says plans are at an advanced stage to engage and finance selected broadband providers to offer BPO entrepreneurs subsidised services.

  • Kenya: Cabinet effects e-Government

    Suppliers of goods and services to government will in future be paid on-line, following the adoption of e-government by the Cabinet.

    That means that billions of shillings paid out by the government for goods and services rendered will be wired to banks directly, after payments are processed on line.

  • Kenya: Cell phone value added services tilts market

    From the time those mobile phones were introduced in the country around 15 years ago, this small ubiquitous device has evolved from facilitating just voice calls and text messages to being a multiple application device increasingly becoming central to our existence.

    And now the Government has announced plans to shift all its online information and services onto the mobile phone platform in the next three months.

    Disclosing the ambitious plan last week, Information Permanent Secretary Bitange Ndemo said that they intend to start with transferring data from the transport ministry as they seek to further enhance service delivery.

  • Kenya: Challenges as e-government takes root

    The use of information and communication technology (ICT) is taking root in Kenya.

    Following the launch of e-Government Strategy Paper in early 2004, efforts to provide the public with Internet sevices and development of content is beginning to bear fruits.

    Early this month, the former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Communications, James Rege, said the country was better placed to manage Internet than many others in the continent.

  • Kenya: Clear proof that ICT must be encouraged

    The speed with which the results of the referendum were published had a lot to do with the adoption of the latest communication technologies.

    Speed and transparency are important in such political events as they take care of environments that could create anxiety and suspicion among contestants and other interested groups.

    While we cannot claim to have arrived at the highest edge of information technology, the performance of the Interim Independent Electoral Commission indicates the first real steps in that direction.

  • Kenya: Communications Commission Plans Tough Rules to Check Electronic Transactions

    Authentication of online transactions is set to get a boost as the industry regulator moves to develop a regulatory framework that will enable it to license electronic certificate providers.

    The Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) says the providers will be in charge of issuance, renewal, suspension, reinstating and revocation of the certificates, among other things. This will make online or web-based transactions secure and facilitate signing of email or electronic documents to ensure the integrity of their content.

  • Kenya: Country Under Threat of Digital Oblivion

    Despite our relative economic poverty, our society is slowly but steadily moving towards the information age.

    The typical indicators confirm this trend such as, more than four million Kenyans are regular Internet users, more than six million have mobile phones, and more than 4,000 Kenyan Internet Domain Names have been registered.

  • Kenya: Do not kill e-government

    In a world where competition has moved from local to the global front, adoption of technology is aimed at giving private business and governments a head start in tackling their rivals through efficiency improvement.

    So when the Kenyan Government stood on the pedestal and announced to all that it was bringing in electronic government, popularly known as e-government, expectations rose among citizens that it would make it easier for them to access public services over which they not only have a right but whose provision they finance through payment of taxes.

  • Kenya: Draft Suggests New Powers for State Regulator

    For the first time, electronic signatures and documents will be legally binding according to proposals contained in the draft Information and Communication Bill 2006 published on Monday.

    This will mean that when and if the Bill successfully goes through the parliamentary process, electronic documents will be legally recognised which could considerably reduce paperwork in e-commerce and e-government in the country.

  • Kenya: e-governance project gets major CBC boost

    The drive towards e-governance for Kenya and other African countries has received a major boost from the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) and EzGov Europe.

    Both organizations have signed a MOU, aimed towards bankrolling this project, whose key motivation is to improve service delivery in government.

  • Kenya: E-government is the way to go in enhancing service delivery

    Top among the considerations of investors when choosing where to channel their resources is the ease of securing vital documents — set up licences and travel and identity documents for their businesses and employees.

    On that count, Kenya has for years been on the undesired list of laggards costing it millions of dollars in new foreign direct investment flows each year.

  • Kenya: E-Government plans on track, says Kibaki

    President Kibaki has announced that Kenyans will soon enjoy enhanced service delivery by public servants after the implementation of the e-government plan.

    The President said his Government has initiated a range of policy measures and so far, the e-government policy is being implemented.

    "E-government will enhance communication between government and its people who are the consumers of its services," said Kibaki in Isiolo on Tuesday.

  • Kenya: e-Government report card

    E-Government is increasingly being viewed as an essential tool in the future outlook of the country, and is gradually transforming how services are delivered to the general public.

    The implementation of information technology within key sectors of Government is instrumental in enhancing efficiency and performance. So far an estimated total of Sh23 to 26 billion has been disbursed in this respect since 2002. This includes the fibre optic cable project which started in 2005. Budgetary allocation for the sector was up more than 100 per cent to Sh7.8 billion from last year’s Sh3.6 billion.

    The World Bank also contributed Sh8 billion to facilitate the fibre layout countrywide.

  • Kenya: E-Health Welcome Relief for Over Worked Medical Staff

    How would you react if your village doctor, the only one watching over the health of about 5,000 people, were to go for a three-month course abroad to learn electronic health (e-health) technology to bring efficiency to the local health centre?

    Most probably "Nah, forget it!" And it would be reasonable and human to feel so.

    The new skills he or she acquires cannot justify the anguish and death in the absence of medical care. Yet this is not to say it is not important for doctors and health workers to acquire new skills.

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