[kictanet] Government Website standadisation and audit

[Alex Gakuru]

Yawe:

I believe that you are actually asking for something different. It's
called Freedom Of Information Act (or FOIA). Buy again sorry, you have
to wait a while longer because the FOI Bill that was before Parliament
went stale before enactment by the last Parliament. Lobbying for this
law will now have re-start afresh next year.

Pole sana kwa hasara mingi!

On Nov 22, 2007 8:47 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Today I will end up spending 3,500/- to have someone run to the City Council
> of Nairobi, County Council of Mavoko and Ministry of Lands offices to find
> out what I owe in Land Rates and Land Rent.
>
> Earlier in the morning I logged onto the Internet hoping to find the
> information I needed online as I remember KRA putting up a half page advert
> worth more than 1 million in the dailies indicating that land rent
> information is available on their web site.
>
> As I had not recorded the details I tried getting to the site by using the
> URL's that I assumed would belong to the various entities,
> kenyarevenue.go.ke, waweru.go.ke, taxman.go.ke, letapesa.go.tax as you might
> already know the website is at none of these addresses it is at kra.go.ke.
> The information is not available at that location
> http://www.kra.go.ke/landrent/landrent.php yet I am sure if we looked
> through the KRA payment slips the developer was paid to implement the
> feature.
>
> But that is not as bad as the Ministry of Lands Website for which I tried
> lands.go.ke, ministryoflands.go.ke, and even not at grabbers.go.ke.  Thanks
> to google I was able to find it at ardhi.go.ke.
>
> Would it be so difficult for Dr. Mutua or Dr. Ndemo or Eng. Waweru or Mr.
> Kokubo or Director of ....., to put up a website that would list all
> ministry and government agencies websites.  I offer to pay for the domain
> registration and hosting for one year locally.  We would then lobby all the
> newspapers to carry the URL for free on their backpage and on the home page
> of their websites.
>
> Worse still is the lack of a standard layout for the government web sites,
> each site you visit is a new experience.  Would it be so difficult for us to
> stop wasting money and just have someone design templates to be used for all
> Ministry Web sites.  Yes I hear you but then how do we develop our local
> developers, let us not punish an entire nation so that we can reward a few
> mediocre designers.
>
> Regards
>
> PS.  I did not get the information and I will now be out of pocket 3,500/-
> or more by the end of the day, all because we are waiting for a marine cable
> to resolve all this issues.
>  Robert Yawe
> KAY System Technologies Ltd
> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
> KEnya
>
> Tel: +254722511225
>
>
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