By Ramadhan Rajab
The Kenya ICT Board, in partnership with Safaricom, will host an e-Government conference in Mombasa next week.
The four-day summit, dubbed Connecting Government is the brainchild of the Kenya ICT Board, in consultation with industry players and Government decision makers. It will run from March 29 to April 1.
The forum hopes to establish a platform for collaboration, capacity building, and sharing priorities between the Government and the IT sector, with a view to linking and hastening implementation of Government IT projects to world-class standards.
According Mr Paul Kukubo, CEO of the Kenya ICT Board, the Summit also seeks to establish a platform where the Government and the private sector can come together to deliberate on key priority areas, and identify areas for partnership that will deliver services to the public in a harmonious and timely manner.
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"We expect this to be a successful event, particularly in regards to the role that shared services plays in Kenya Vision 2030," Kukubo said.
He reiterated that in the backdrop of the gazetted regulations governing public private partnerships (PPPs), the Government had the opportunity to work closely with private sector to implement key development projects.
This, he said, would help in attainment of the goals of the Kenya Vision 2030, notably the creation of wealth and employment, while delivering better services to citizens.
Some of the key ICT projects the Kenya ICT Board is facilitating include digitisation of records at Ministry of Lands, at the company registry, and the Judiciary.
Some of these projects will be showcased at the summit.
