by David Indeje | Mar 6, 2024 | Access, Highlights, kictanet post
KICTANet has announced the formation of seven tech policy working groups tasked with offering contributions and critique on the Information, Communications and the Digital Economy Sectoral Working Group (SWG) Draft Report developed by the Ministry of Information,...
by David Indeje | Mar 5, 2024 | Access to information, Digital Economy, Highlights, kictanet post
By John Walubengo As the uptake of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies continues to expand rapidly, the debate over the need for stringent regulation grows louder. Whereas calls for comprehensive AI regulation are understandable given the potential risks...
by David Indeje | Feb 28, 2024 | Gender, Highlights, kictanet post
By Maryanne W. Waweru Jeriter Mutinda Mutisya, 49, is a businesswoman based in Machakos, in Kenya’s eastern region. Jeriter runs enterprises in the hospitality and real estate industries. Jeriter, a wife and mother of two sons aged 24 and 18 years old, is a woman...
by David Indeje | Feb 28, 2024 | Digital Economy, Highlights, Human Rights, kictanet post
Civil society organisations in Kenya have noted with concern the government’s policy to begin exclusively issuing new ID applicants and people seeking to replace lost IDs with the new digital ID, Maisha Card, despite the project’s serious design...
by David Indeje | Feb 26, 2024 | Highlights, Human Rights, kictanet post
KICTANet is actively participating in the 2024 World Conference on Statelessness, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from February 26th to 29th. This conference, organized by the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, Nationality for All, and Development of Human Resources...