[kictanet] Expensive Software Systems [Update]

[wesley kiriinya]

Following the previous post about the KPA software system which costs > 200M (about 450M including hardware machines), I found the following interesting:

http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8717&Itemid=5847

In summary, the system only uses Internet Explorer (which makes one wonder whether a requirements document was ever created). I can already see your eyes twitching and teeth grinding so I will stop there... And it seems like KRA’s Simba's system is IE only also.

I hope this area of ICT is covered in the policy so that Kenyans (whom I believe are very talented) are empowered to take up such projects.

Regards.

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. 
-R. Buckminster Fuller.


      
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