E-citizen; Is this Digitization or a Misdirection
Image on Freepik In a bid to prioritize the shift to a digital economy and improve the efficiency in service delivery, former President Uhuru Kenyatta issued a directive in 2013 aimed at ensuring that all government services would be digitized. Thus, the eCitizen portal was gazetted under Gazette Notice No. 9290 of 2014. Relying on the information on the National Treasury website, the former President initiated this project in accordance with the recommendations of the Third Medium Term Plan under Vision 2030. This was not the only catalyst for the establishment of the eCitizen program. The World Bank also made recommendations for the same, and went to the extent of providing approximately Ksh 70 million. This financial capital was sourced from the International Finance Corporation, th...