ICT Policy For Kenya

WHAT ARE ICTs?

ICTs ARE TECHNOLOGIES FOR:

• PROCESSING INFORMATION (PRESENTING IT IN VARIOUS FORMS, STORING IT, SEARCHING FOR IT, REPRODUCING IT, ETC.)

• TRANSMITTING INFORMATION FROM ONE GEOGRAPHICAL POINT TO ANOTHER, FROM ONE PERSON TO ANOTHER, TO A GROUP OF PEOPLE OR TO THE WHOLE COMMUNITY

ICT Policy For Kenya

Scope of ICTs

Traditional ICTs

• The Printed Book

• Postal Service

• The Printed Press

• Film

• Radio and Television

• Recorded Music

ICT Policy For Kenya

New ICTs

• Telecommunications

• Computers

• The Internet

ICT Policy For Kenya

Convergence

• Technologies for the processing and transmission of information have began to use the same language or convergent.

• This is as a result of the process of digitalisation.

What is an ICT Policy?

• A policy is a program of planned activities to achieve a set of objectives.

• In many countries, national policies are formulated to achieve national development goals.

Why an ICT Policy?

• “PUBLIC INTEREST”

• Economic, Political and Social Cultural functions

Scope of an ICT Policy?

• ICT policy so as to apply to one or more categories of ICTs.

• A sectoral basis such as health, education or agriculture – sometimes referred to as vertical policies.

How Policies Formulated?

• Policy-making is a process

• normally involves the expression of conflicting interests.

• It is convenient to think of such interests as being represented by “actors” who engage in debate and decision-making.

• in appropriate locations or “fora” where decisions are made.

How is it implemented?

• Policies have to be expressed in specific rules or regulations which can be applied to guide and control activities of ICTs on practical basis.

• Regulations are devices for solving or avoiding some particular problem or issue of ICT Policy.

• They change their character and salience over time and from place to place.

How should is it Monitored?

• Policy - Why

• Strategy - What

• Implementation – How

How should is it Monitored?

• Not with standing the reasons why a country may select such objectives, in any particular sector or area, policies, strategies and implementation plans are respective responses to three main questions: why? What? And how.