7th August, 2020 THE KENYA GAZETTE 3. Provide regulations and guidelines for the implementations and enforcement of the laws in the sector; and 4. Ensure institutions. effectiveness of the laws and the corresponding Current Institutional Arrangements: Some of the current stakeholders in the ICT ecosystem are: Ce Orn un S won 1. County Governments National Communications Secretariat Communications Authority of Kenya Kenya ICT Authority Communications Authority of Kenya(CA): The CA as the Sector Regulator, will play its role as the converged regulatory body for the sector in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010. ICT Konza Technopolis Development Authority Postal Corporation of Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) formulation and enforcement of ICT 11. Kenya News Agency (KNA) Communications Appeals Tribunal), which was reconstituted the Kenya Communications (Amendment) Act, 2013. 13. Kenya Year Book 15. Media Council of Kenya 16. Kenya Film Commission Media Council of Kenya: The Media Council of Kenya established through the Media Council Act, 2013 will play its role of promoting and protecting the freedom and independence of the media, prescribing standards of media practitioners and media enterprises, facilitating resolution of disputes between the government and the media and between the public and the media and intra media and establish media standards and regulate and monitor compliance with the media standards. 17. Kenya Film Classification Board 18. Kenya Film School 19. Development partners 20. Civil Society 21. Investors and Operators 22. Consumers/users 23. ICT Professional Bodies 24. Relevant government agencies Ministry of ICT: The Government’s role in the sector will include: 1. Strengthen existing institutions and assign appropriate ICT priority areas to them to champion and deliver on the objectives of the policy. In particular, specific targets will be agreed upon and reviews made to determine the extent to which they are being realised; Development Partners: Development partners will play a complementary role towards realisation of development of the goals and objectives of this policy. Within the ICT policy framework, the Government will foster linkages with various development partners to provide financial, material, technical assistance as well as build capacity for sustainability. Civil Society: The role of the Civil Society will be to inform the policy making process by making relevant contributions. Investors and Operators: Investors, operators and service providers play an important role in the sector, and will be required to:- Develop, co-ordinate and implement both the ICT policy and framework across all sectors of 1. Participate in the provision of universal service/access. the economy to ensure that the implementation of ICT programmes and projects is effective to support the social and economic sectors of the economy; and 2. Operate with efficiency, credibility, commercial good corporate governance. 3. Creation sector. choice to consumers; and enabling environment for investment in the County Governments: County governments should invest in and promote the adoption of ICT whilst embracing the sharing of infrastructure and enterprise applications for efficiency and transparency. Konza Technopolis Development Authority: In 2008, the Government of Kenya approved the creation of Konza Technology City as a flagship Kenya Vision 2030 project. Konza will be a sustainable, world class technology hub and major economic driver for Kenya. Konza is conceived to capture the growing global Business Processing Outsourcing and Information Technology Enabled Services (BPO/ITES) National sectors in Kenya. Communications Secretariat through Postal Corporation of Kenya: The Postal Corporation of Kenya is a Public Commercial Enterprise operating under the PCK Act of Parliament 1998. The Corporation’s mandate includes provision of accessible, affordable and reliable Postal Services to all parts of Kenya as the Public Postal Licensee. 14. Communications and Multimedia Appeals Tribunal of an Standards, Communications and Multimedia Appeals Tribunal: Disputes arising between parties in the ICT sector will be heard and settled by the Communications and Multimedia Appeals Tribunal (formerly the (KIMC) 12. Government Advertising Agency the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) Projects, coordination of Government ICT HR _ capacity development, facilitation of ICT Innovations and management of National ICT Security. It is also the implementing agency for the following key areas; Disaster Recovery Centres, ICT Capacity Building, Government ICT Security ICT Standards and Government Shared Infrastructure. East Africa Marine Cable System Ltd. 10. Kenya Institute of Mass Communication 2. on all matters pertaining to the ICT sector. NCS will carry out research and monitoring related to ICT policy and will publish reports and results of the research. ICT Authority: The ICT Authority will continue to play its broad mandate of fostering the development of ICTs in Kenya (including businesses, innovation and capacity building), implement and maintain systems and technology for the Government and oversee the development of integrated ICT projects in addition to being responsible for computing devices within the government. The Authority is also tasked with coordination and management of National ICT Core infrastructure, Applications Project and Complex Ministry of ICT and all it’s agencies Kenya 3077 (NCS): The National Communications Secretariat, which is the ICT Policy Advisory Secretariat, established through the Kenya Communications Act of 1998. It will continue to be the policy advisory arm of the Government 3. Provide quality and sustainable service with integrity and pluralism of 4. Keep abreast with and participate in ICTs development both regionally and internationally. Consumers: Are the principal drivers of service delivery, and are encouraged to use services delivered in new ways, complain and seek redress if services are of inferior quality and vote wisely with their wallets. ICT Professional Bodies: The Government encourages the formation of national ICT non-statutory professional bodies registered under the laws of Kenya to foster professional ethics, standards and human resource development in the sector. 63 Skills and Innovation This policy extends and amplifies the Government of Kenya Framework for Science, Technology and Innovation sessional paper of 2012 by adopting a viewpoint called the knowledge triangle (KT), which holistically examines the interaction between Research and