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Kenya embarks on Partnership to Leverage on IoT
The Kenyan Government is steadily moving away from an era of undertaking huge projects to an moment of considering huge…
The Kenyan Government is steadily moving away from an era of undertaking huge projects to an moment of considering huge partnerships so as to offer seamless services to the citizens and full accountability.
“In an effort to improve citizens quality of life the government has deliberately heaved past the agenda of talking about rollout of ICT initiatives to an agenda of that prepares a solid ground of leveraging on Internet of Things”, says Engineer Victor Kyalo, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of ICT.
“In an effort to improve citizens quality of life the government has deliberately heaved past the agenda of talking about rollout of ICT initiatives to an agenda of that prepares a solid ground of leveraging on Internet of Things”, says Engineer Victor Kyalo, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of ICT.
In his keynote address during the Africa IoT Summit organized by CIO East Africa in Nairobi, Kenya, Eng. Kyalo pointed out that although the Government was not well versed with in IoT now, it was more than willing to partner with any organizations involved in it following the realization of the opportunities IoT offers.
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Analytical Data
“We are at the moment trying to graduate to the next level of interconnecting ministries and government departments gathering varied analytical data so as to render effective services to the the citizens,” said Eng. Kyalo who gave an example of the elaborate initiative that the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA).
Eng Kyalo pointed out three areas of which the Government is venturing into. “First is the Internal partnerships within the Government. More important for all ministries to seamless connect and partner in various government initiatives,” he said.
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So how are the ministries actualizing this initiative? “We let the ministries focus on their businesses as we focus best on the infrastructure. We can either build or outsource the infrastructures for them,” said Eng. Kyalo.
Presidential Digital Talent Programme
Second Capacity: Citing an example of the Presidential Digital Talent Programme, Eng Kyalo said, that the programme seeks to be offered to every student leaving university. This means that Capacity building will be done in a more organized manner. “PDTP is like a pilot of the bigger project the Government was considering deploying in the coming years.”
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Thirdly Clear Policy for the environment. Here, Eng. Kyalo explained that they were working on flexible policies that can allow people to even try out new innovations.
On IoT and the county road-maps, Eng Kyalo explained that there were many worthwhile projects happening in various counties and it would therefore be great to see them graduate to the next level of metering and how they can as well be scaled upto the National Government level.
Asset Management
At the National Government, an area that presents quite an great opportunity for IoT hinges on Asset Management. According to Eng. Kyalo one of the best ways to address issues around asset management is coming up with an IoT and Block chain enabled solution.
“We need solutions to address the issues we face as a nation and are quite practical. The biggest asset the Government will have in the coming years will be data collected from the different services we are offering. How we treat that will again be guided again by the legislations we put in place,” he added.