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"...
Democracies
die
behind
closed
doors."
(Judge
Damon
J. Keith,
US Court
of Appeals
for
the
6th
Circuit
)
My Vision For Marakusi Ward
I
have
a vision
for
a united
Marakusi
Ward
which
is progressive
and
prosperous
in providing
equal
opportunity
to all
residents
to have
access
to and
use
knowledge
and
information
to improve
their
lives,
A community
that
respect
and
value
one
another's
human
diginity
and
nationhood.
My Mission For Marakusi Ward
In addition to championing the upholding of a holistic
aproach
to issues in the
local government, my vision is to ensure that we overcome the obstacles holding
the Marakusi Ward Community back, I will focus on establishing a
result-oriented leadership which will ensure the people of Marakusi realize
their full potential by investing in them, build partnerships to realize the
transformative potential of knowledge, communication and information technologies to improve
lives, reduce poverty and empower people all with a passion. This is in
realization that the information revolution presents a tremendous opportunity
for development. Freedom of information supports economic development,
strengthens democracy and secures the enjoyment of basic rights. To secure
prosperity, deepening democracy, supporting human rights enforcement we need
the flow of information to the people at the grassroots level. To see that the
word of God gets to the rural Kenya,
we need the flow of information
Right
To Information
"...
Democracies
die
behind
closed
doors."
(Judge
Damon
J. Keith,
US Court
of Appeals
for
the
6th
Circuit
)
The
information
revolution
presents
a tremendousopportunity
for
development.Freedom
of information
supports
economic
development,
strengthens
democracy
and
secures
the
enjoyment
of basic
rights.
To secure
prosperity,
deepening
democracy,
supporting
human
rights
enforcement
we need
the
flow
of information
to the
people
at the
grassroots
level.
Secrecy
leads
to inefficient
resource
allocation
because
in
opaque
economies,
investors
will
put
resources
in politically
safe
investments
not
necessarily
to the
most
economically
rational
ones.
Its
good
to realize
that
voters
are
more
likely
to vote
independently
if they
know
what
alternative
exist
and
what
government
decisions
are
based
on.
If information
is not
available,
then
residents
in any
ward
themselves
must
invest
time
and
energy
to look
for
it or
else
gather
it from
biased
interest
groups.
Our
local
governance
according
to Erick
Matsanza
need
to be
on the
forefront
to champion
the
need
to open
access
to information
in order
to first
grow
prosperous,
second,
be more
democratic
and
third,
assure
residents
meaningful,
fulfilling
lives.
There
is on
this
reckoning,
an economic
and
political
justifications
for
free
access
to information
in the
grassroots.
For
example
the
right
to food
relies
on the
right
to information
about
foot
availability
and
its
nutritional
value,
the
right
to personal
security
depends
on the
right
to information
about
threats
to safety,
the
right
to housing
rests
on the
right
to information
about
safety
of the
building
materials,
availability
of sanitary
services
and
the
right
to health
depends
on the
right
to information
about
health
threats
in one
neighbourhood
and
the
safety
of products.
This
is what
Erick
Matsanza
would
like
to see
happening
in the
rural
Marakusi
Ward.
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