With all due respect Jules, I find your post rude and entitled. I've
noticed a culture of complaining in this mailing list. Is that how the
group proposes to be an agent of change? It's not going to work if the list
operates in a spirit of negativity and confrontation.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Jules Mike Giovanni <johnally_at_eml.cc>
wrote:
> Hi Mr. Avinash Meetoo,
>
> Thank you very much for your prompt reply.
>
>
> Existing laws do not require the Council to produce any report and,
> consequently, there are no reports for 2015.
>
>
> In other words, what you mean to say is that there is no documented
> evidence of the Council's contributions for 2015? If there is, can it be
> made available to public for transparency sake? If it cannot be made
> available, why?
>
>
> In 2016, the Council will work on an Open Data strategy and an Open Source
> strategy for the country and we will hopefully have a report ready for the
> Minister of ICT and Innovation in a few months once all members of the
> Council have provided their inputs and these have been consolidated.
>
>
> Can the report be also made available to the public and if not, why?
>
>
> For your information, we have not yet met in 2016 as we had to postpone
> our meeting as one of our members was detained.
>
>
> Won't that be a major setback in the Council's operations for 2016 (i.e We
> are already approaching the end of February)? Moreover, I do see that both
> Mr. Loganaden Velvindron and Mr. Fabrice Ally Alladee-Blatch, as members of
> the Council, share the same responsibilities[1] as Mr. Nitin Sookun who was
> detained. Is there a specific reason why Mr. Nitin Sookun's presence is
> compulsory for the first meeting of 2016?
>
>
> As Chairperson during those few months, I've had to deal with countless
> issues which, in my opinion, I should not have had to deal with and which
> have collectively delayed our work. Given the constraints we have, we are
> trying to do our best.
>
>
> In case of these "countless issues", who do you report to, as the
> Chairperson of the Council, or are you and your Council members on your own?
>
>
> What is important is that all people who want to make Mauritius better
> work together instead of one against the other.
>
>
> This was always the idea but when one's contribution cannot be confirmed
> through lack of transparency for instance, you do understand the bottom
> line reactions?
>
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
> 1. http://mtci.govmu.org/English/Dept-Bodies/Pages/ICTAdvisoryCouncil.aspx
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Received on Wed Feb 24 2016 - 13:56:46 PST