Kenya’s Controversial ICT Practitioners Bill To Become Law
Jun 15, 2022 ·
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Kenya’s 12th parliament passed the controversial 2020 proposal that seeks to regulate anyone who employs technologies to collect, process, store or transfer information for a fee. The wide-sweeping and vague...
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Kenya’s 12th parliament passed the controversial 2020 proposal that seeks to regulate anyone who employs technologies to collect, process, store or transfer information for a fee.
The wide-sweeping and vague ICT Practitioners Bill mandated the registration and licensing of vaguely defined ICT practitioners by a council.
Cabinet Secretary in Kenya’s Ministry of Information and Computer Technology, Joseph Mucheru rejected it, noting that proposals in the bill would affect innovative talent and alienate local youth from lucrative online jobs, and educational and investment opportunities.
Mucheru had said,If enacted, the ICT Protection Bill 2016 will cause duplication in regulation and frustrate individual talents from realising their potential.
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The wide-sweeping and vague ICT Practitioners Bill mandated the registration and licensing of vaguely defined ICT practitioners by a council.
Cabinet Secretary in Kenya’s Ministry of Information and Computer Technology, Joseph Mucheru rejected it, noting that proposals in the bill would affect innovative talent and alienate local youth from lucrative online jobs, and educational and investment opportunities.
Mucheru had said,If enacted, the ICT Protection Bill 2016 will cause duplication in regulation and frustrate individual talents from realising their potential.
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