Date: 13 March 2024, 0900 – 1600 hours
Venue: Radisson Blu, Upper Hill, Nairobi.
Participants: Working group members.
Introduction
KICTANet convened the community into 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, Communications, and the Digital Economy’s (MoICDE) Sector Working Group on critical policy, legislative, and regulatory reforms within the Kenyan ICT sector.
The SWG was commissioned in September 2023. The SWG is tasked with creating adaptable frameworks to achieve the government’s digitalisation goals and bolster the digital economy’s contribution to the GDP over the next two decades.
The SWG’s objectives involve evaluating the ICT and digital economy sector’s efficacy, stability, and structure and proposing measures to foster agility, innovation, and value creation. It is also reviewing existing policies, legislative frameworks, institutional structures, and administrative protocols and will recommend reforms.
This initiative will contribute to updating ICT laws through input to the Ministry of Information, Communications, and the Digital Economy’s (MoICDE) Sector Working Group.
KICTANet’s working groups will contribute to this process by bringing together diverse expertise from key stakeholders across various thematic areas. Out of over 130 applicants, seven experts from the civil society, academia, and private sector were selected to spearhead the consolidation of KICTANet’s input on the seven thematic areas.
This program is for the seven community working groups to make their submissions to the Information, Communications and the Digital Economy Sectoral Working Group (SWG) Draft Report
The Feedback Session with the Working Group on Policy, Legislative & Regulatory Reforms in the ICT Sector
Programme – 13 March 2024 | 10 am– 4.30 pm.
| Draft Programme | ||
| Time | Session | Facilitator(s) |
| Tea break | ||
| 1000 – 1015 | Welcome, Introductions and Objectives | Taskforce/GIZ/KICTANet |
| 1015 – 1045 | Group 1 – Digital infrastructure, telecommunications, and services | Twahir H. Kassim |
| 1045 – 1115 | Group 2 – Software and software services | Kelvin K. Mwangi |
| 1115 – 1145 | Group 3 – Data Governance and Emerging Technologies | Grace Mutung’u |
| 1145 – 1215 | Group 4 – Cybersecurity | Njoroge Kinyanjui |
| 1215 – 1300 | Plenary Session | Taskforce/KICTANet |
| Lunch Break | ||
| 1400 – 1430 | Group 5 – Innovation, enterprises, digital talent and jobs | Dr. Ehud Gachugu |
| 1430 – 1500 | Group 6 – Postal, courier and e-commerce | Daniel Maingi |
| 1530 – 1600 | Group 7 – Media, broadcasting, PR and communications | Dr. Wambui Wamunyu |
| 1600 – 1630 | Plenary Session | Taskforce/KICTANet |
| Tea Break | ||
| End of Event: Participants may leave at their leisure | ||
