by David Indeje | Oct 18, 2023 | Cyber Security, Digital Economy, Highlights, kictanet post
By John Walubengo Two weeks ago, Kenya’s parliamentary ad hoc Committee on the conduct of the Worldcoin project concluded its investigations and published its report. Since it is quite a bulky report, running into over one hundred pages, chances are high that...
by David Indeje | Oct 4, 2023 | Cyber Security, Highlights, kictanet post, Privacy
By John Walubengo The recent penalties slapped on three entities by the Office of the Data Protection Commission (ODPC) serve as a wake-up call to the realities of the Kenyan Data Protection Act (2019), enacted more than three years ago. Whereas this is not the first...
by David Indeje | Sep 25, 2023 | Digital Economy, Highlights, kictanet post
By John Walubengo A few months ago, President Ruto made his first digital signature during the launch of 5,000 digitized government services. The media did not focus much on this significant digital signature activity, perhaps because very few people understand what a...
by David Indeje | Sep 10, 2023 | Digital Economy, Highlights, kictanet post
By John Walubengo Last week Friday 8th September 2023, the Cabinet Secretary for ICT, Mr. Eliud Owalo inaugurated the Working Group on ‘ICT Sectoral Reforms in Legal and Policy Framework’. In his own words, the CS said that the team of technocrats had been specially...
by David Indeje | Sep 1, 2023 | Access to information, Highlights
By John Walubengo. Kenyan President William Ruto has taken a keen interest in the global challenge of climate change. From September 4–6, Nairobi will host the Africa Climate Summit where over twenty heads of state and government and their high-level delegations of...