[kictanet] Foreign Software Houses of Babel..in kenya.

[Brian Munyao Longwe]

Actually Bill I think that this is just a clear and perfect example  
(or expression) of the dire need for standards in Govt implementation  
of ICT projects as well as coordination across departments.

Since both of us are techies - we know that integration between  
system no matter the origin or the language/database/message formats  
is simply a matter of a deliberate integration process. Clearly that  
is missing in this picture - and rather than deal with the real  
problem, the actors have resorted to finger pointing/blame game and  
all the other forms of unhelpful and time-wasting bureacracy that  
plague large institutions like governments (as well as many  
corporates). I can assure that if there was commitment to process and  
deliverables from the top down to the bottom, these issues could have/ 
would have been sorted ages ago.

Our "Waafrika" problem is that when faced with challenges we'd rather  
tear each other down than face the problems head on and (together)  
tear them down.

Brian


On Aug 25, 2008, at 10:04 PM, Bill Kagai wrote:

>
> I am watching news in awe where they are reporting that Kenya Ports  
> Authority has deployed a Korean piece of software (Kwatos) to ease  
> turn-around at the Port but now its not working well with the Kenya  
> Revenue Authority software from Chile (Simba). Ofcourse both cost  
> billions.
>
> As the spanish-speaking chileans 'haga el informe con los otros  
> extranjeros' with the Koreans to '소프트웨어를 저희를 위 
> 해 일한' , sisi wakenya tunangoja kusaidiwa. Mwafrika anajimaliza  
> mwenyewe...as Baba Gideon would say. <http://uk.babelfish.yahoo.com/ 
> translate_txt>
>
> The result according to one Mureithi of Kenya Shipping Associations  
> is that port has now become a 'store' rather than a 'door' taking  
> ages (14 days instead of 3 days) to clear goods because of the  
> software conflict. Here be dragons...is this a kictanet sized  
> problem...or do we just watch and comment later in another study on  
> this discussion forum????
>
> Time for an ICT Commission of Inquiry ???
>
> Bill Kagai
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