Constitution

This interesting Bill has been floating around. Just from a preliminary analysis, it is unconstitutional in its entirety.

The National Assembly has published the Data Protection Bill, 2019 which you may download from the link. I will post my analysis on the Bill in the coming days.

The Chief Of Staff in the Office of The President recently tweeted that the debate on data protection in Kenya is an academic debate (https://twitter.com/NziokaWaita/status/1120998466753310721). [...]

You have probably used one of the e-government services on offer; be it E-Citizen, iTax, TIMS, EJiji Pay, NHIF and NSSF among others. There is concerted effort by the State to automate its [...]

2019 promises to be a critical year for the digital space in Kenya. Below are some of the key legal issues that will be in focus: 1. The Data Protection Bill: this will by far be the most [...]

Here are my reflections on the proposed Data Protection Bill, 2018 as presented to the  ICT Ministry.

There has been  discussion on whether Kenya needs a national Public Participation Act or policy. There are drafts that had been floating around on the same. A few years ago I was part of a team [...]

We have another Data Protection Bill in circulation. This one has been drafted by the Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology. My view is that the ICT Ministry and Senate should [...]

In memory of H.E. Kofi Annan (1938-2018), this week I share a paper I authored in 2014 that was edited and published by International IDEA. The paper analysed the role of the African Union in [...]

When an individual is afflicted by a dependency condition, we do not treat them by according them unfettered access to the substances they are dependent on. It is instructive that such an [...]