The seventh edition of the Connected East Africa Summit (formerly Connected Kenya) is underway, the conference is organised by Kenya’s ICT Authority in consultation with ICT industry players and government decision makers.
The theme for the summit this year is ‘The Strength in Our Networks, and it will address issues of building an integrated ICT infrastructure and policies in the region. The East Africa countries have formed an inter-ministerial committee which looks into breaking regional barriers in harmonisation of ICT. This committee will report their progress at the Summit.
According to CIO, the Connected East Africa Summit aims to establish a platform for collaboration, capacity building and knowledge sharing between government and the ICT sector with a view of linking and hastening implementation of government IT projects to world-class standards.
This year’s event will see among other things the implementation of the Kenya ICT Masterplan-Caucus. The Caucases were formed following a request by the Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Fred Matiang’i for support in overseeing the implementation of the projects outlined in the National ICT Master Plan launched in April 2014. The objective of the caucus groups is to ensure the interests of Kenya’s ICT sector stakeholders are represented throughout the ICT Master Plan implementation process and if necessary, in the review and updating. The mandate of the Caucuses will be to play a thought leadership role throughout the design, updating and implementation of the National ICT Master Plan.
