speed wireless access across the length and breadth of Kenya. To balance the principle of open access with the need to provide commercial incentives that foster investment, the Communications Authority (CA) will license county-based service providers to offer last mile access solutions and provide equitable and affordable access to NOFBI for such licensed providers. 6.1.2 ICT Infrastructure and Access The Constitution of Kenya establishes a devolved system of government and provides inter alia that broadcasting, postal and telecommunications services shall be the mandate of the national government. In fulfilment of this mandate the national government has invested and continues to invest in a National Optic Fibre Backbone Infrastructure (NOFBI). Counties are encouraged to provide ICT infrastructure and skills development as will permit them to take advantage of this national ICT policy. The national government will provide such technical and knowledge support as the counties may require to give regional effect to this policy. This policy mandates the deployment of the following services and systems: Infrastructure Sharing: Infrastructure development and deployment is a capitalintensive undertaking and should be managed on a prudential basis nationally. The government will continue, as it has, to invest in common, publicly available high capital undertakings such as a national data transport backbone, central and regional data centres, and carefully managed shared radio frequencies. The Communications Authority will oversee access, license operators, and regulate and price commercial access to infrastructure built with public funds. All infrastructure built with public funds will be available for use by Kenyan private and commercial operators on fair, affordable and equitable terms without prejudice to their size, location or composition. A legal framework will be developed to provide for a fair use policy, by which privately established infrastructure may on fair commercial terms be made available by one operator to others. The Communications Authority will ensure that the arrangements between operators and service providers provide national resilience to disasters, equitable access to naturally limited resources and sites, and that collocation of services and equipment is encouraged, while ensuring Ministry of ICT, Kenya optimal service reliability, redundancy, carrier and net neutrality, and the security of data both at rest and in transit. To this end: 1. The National Government will develop a National Integrated Infrastructure plan. Each County Government will also develop a County Integrated Infrastructure Plan. These integrated plans will be designed to facilitate rational, cost-effective, sustainable and easily maintained ICT infrastructure by multiple stakeholders 2. The National Government will develop a central publicly available registry of the ICT infrastructure and resources of government agencies, operators, utility companies and infrastructure building companies to which reference may be made to prevent unnecessary duplication and waste of scarce ICT resources. Regulations will be promulgated to ensure that regular and accurate reports are made by government agencies, licensees and utility companies. 3. Government will strictly enforce quality of service regulations to ensure reliability and availability of services 4. Government will provide industry players with equitable access to publicly owned infrastructure 5. Government will review the National Broadband Strategy to ensure provision of high-speed affordable connectivity to all citizens in all places. Where it is not commercially viable for operators to invest in infrastructure, the government will promptly build and develop publicly owned supporting infrastructure to facilitate commercial last mile service provision. 6. The Government will adopt an Enterprise Architecture to govern the implementation and deployment of infrastructure, hardware, software, systems and services across the public sector in a coherent, costeffective and sustainable manner. In order to ensure efficient use of funds and limited resources, the Government shall reach agreements for economic bulk purchase of software licenses and standard ICT equipment. All government Ministries, Departments, Agencies and bodies are required to acquire such licenses and equipment, as they need, at the reduced government negotiated price. These prices will be submitted to the Public Procurement 13/37 November-2019