3080 THE KENYA The Government will: 1. Facilitate the integration of courier and postal services into the digital marketplace, and use the postal and courier network to deliver eservices to citizens. 2. Create an environment that attracts increased investments in the sector and allows the development of postal and courier infrastructure and services that support national development goals. 3. Increased cooperation with sub-regional, regional postal and courier service organisations. 4. and global Ensure a level playing field in the postal and courier industry. In support of this policy, the government will: 1. Encourage the roll out more postal and courier service points, and business model innovation to bring services closer to the people. 2. Establish a uniform national Addressing System. 3. Restructure Postal Corporation of Kenya to align with market/technological changes and to diversify revenue streams so as to remain commercially viable. 4. Promote competition in all postal market segments. 5. Take appropriate measures to ensure a safe and secure mail and courier network by developing security guidelines for operators in the sector. 6. Ensure future road and building incorporate designs such as special access to courier fleet into central urban centres, loading zones, and delivery windows for courier delivery vehicles. 7. Review the exclusive market segments, from time to time to allow for more competition. 8. Support the provision of financial services through the postal system. 643 Child Online Protection The government will ensure that there are rules, structures, principles and policies to ensure that children can use the Internet and computers safely. In order to effect this policy the government will: 1. Develop a legislative framework that embraces child online protection comprehensively as a special case of privacy, and security through a practical multilateral, multi-stakeholder approach (Policy, Law, Technical, Education, Awareness). 2. Develop local public awareness targeted at various target audiences. information and content 3. Develop innovative “online values” programmes that ensure that the right online values are instilled in Kenyan children from the moment they begin to use technology. 7th August, 2020 GAZETTE The Government will continue to review and implement the Cyber Security Strategy and develop relevant legislation to achieve the cyber security policy objectives. It is the government’s objective to: 1. Recognise cyber security as a key pillar of national security and foster a multi-agency approach in the management of national cyber security. 2. Establish an enabling legal framework, aligned with Kenya’s constitutional provisions, legislative and regulatory environment, and consistent with regional and global best practices build capacity skills within law enforcement and the judicial system on the prevailing legal and regulatory frameworks. 3. Support the development of a new generation of technologies that will lead to measurable, available, secure, trustworthy, and sustainable computing and communications systems, as well as associated management and policy tools that enable successful utilisation of the new technologies. 4. Develop information security standards for the ICT sector which are to be adopted and applied by all government agencies and recommended as best practices to private sector business. 5. Sensitise and create awareness to enhance the adoption of information security approaches and new attitudes and culture by citizens. 6. Ensure the efficient mitigation of cyber threats in order to promote trust and confidence with the objective of preserving the openness of the Internet as a platform for innovation and new sources of growth; and 7. Put in place measures to protect vulnerable groups such as children and ensure that they are safe and derive value from cyberspace. 8. Develop intelligence, defensive and offensive capabilities in the cyber-spatial dimension of the battle-space of today and the future. In support of this policy the government will: 1. Implement Computer and Cyber Crimes Legislation. 2. Promote confidence and trust in the use of ICTs by requiring confidentiality of personal information, integrity and availability of ICT services in Kenya. 3. Enacting specific and effective legislative instruments on privacy, security, cyber-crimes, ethical and moral conduct, encryption, digital signatures, copyrights and fair trade practices. 4. Address any gaps in regulatory capacity, especially in the face of convergence of networks and services. 4. Develop a mechanism to equip relevant stakeholders with appropriate information and skills to respond adequately to child online abuse and exploitation. 5. Leverage on the power of ICTs to assist law enforcement agencies and defensive agencies to secure our borders through use of appropriate electronic tools as part of national security. 5. Development of framework of engagement between local and international organisations and law enforcement agencies; and 6. Require ICT Service Providers to emergency communication and prediction, warning of disasters; and 6. Foster the development of technical tools and services in the market that minimise the risk of exposure of children by¢ Removal of illegal content sexual abuse materials from cyberspace such as child e Investigation of child online crimes ¢ Detection and identification of child victims on online abuse and exploitation ¢ Prevention of circulation of child sexual abuse materials; and * Reporting of such content. 7. Better understand the online habits of children and youth and facilitate identification and development of mechanisms to reduce their exposure to risks and vulnerabilities online; understand the context to which a child become vulnerable and how to prevent online protection. 8. Prioritise the equipping of law enforcement agencies judicial officers to handle Child Online Protection related matters. 9. and Establish a database of offenders against children. 6.5 Security As Kenya moves wholly online the security of our infrastructure, resilience in the face of attack, and coherent internal policies to protect citizens from abuse and illegal exploitation become critical to our continued progress. Kenya will develop comprehensive defensive and offensive cyber-capabilities. provide facilities for monitoring and early 7. Identify institutions, organisations and establishments that are of National strategic importance and classify them as Critical Infrastructure. These will be required to demonstrate strict adherence to IT security management by complying with requirements set out by the Government or relevant regulatory authorities. 7. Monitoring and Evaluation Monitoring and Evaluation of this policy will be integrated with the national integrated monitoring and evaluation system (NIMES) in order to maintain clear linkages between the implementation of this policy and the Medium Term Plan (MTPIII) of Vision 2030. The Ministry of ICT will develop a road map to implement the national ICT policy. The road map will inform the Monitoring and Evaluation Framework and Implementation Matrix of the National ICT Policy. A review of this policy will be conducted every three (3) years and a mid-term review after five years. In addition to these reviews, the Ministry will carry out an annual monitoring and evaluation exercise and report on the implementation of the policy. List of Acronyms ICT COMESA EAC UPI Information, Communications and Technology Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa East African Community Universal Personal Identifier