Team has six months to propose ICT policy, legislative reforms

ICT CS Eliud Owalo after the inauguration of the Information, Communication and the Digital Economy Taskforce on policy and legislative reform in line with the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

The ICT and digital economy space is set for a major transformation as a technical working group takes office to spearhead reforms in the sector.

The sectoral working group has been tasked with looking into the legal, policy, and regulation framework of the ICT sector, with the aim of proposing reforms that would align it to President William Ruto's Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda that has an emphasis on the digital economy agenda.