ABSTRACT
The global development agenda faces urgent and distracting problems, and requires autonomous decision-making capabilities. The global development needs to be viewed as the process in which a society or nation-state undergoes change in its structures by quantitative and qualitative improvements through promotion of higher levels of capabilities on the part of its peoples, institutions and production units. Change is occasioned by internal and external realities and the need to be productive and competitive. Transparency is a comprehensive issue. The fact that in countries with a higher tradition of transparency, such as Botswana, the activities of a credit bureau like the Information Trust Company can raise strong sentiments in Parliament attests to what can be expected in an opaque culture like that of Kenya. New information and communications technologies (ICTs) require that internal strategies take on board concurrent and parallel developments on a global level. It needs to be addressed, and it demands an attitude change among environment enabling institutions.
