[kictanet] [Skunkworks] Expensive Software Systems -What of the Immigration System?

[wesley kiriinya]

That's the problem with how these things are done. Chini ya carpet. All the mwananchi knows is that taxes are going up like a helium ballon! Moreover threating the mwananchi with large fines to force them to obey archaic rules that the people who created don't understand and can't follow.
 
Even if the system costs that much is it difficult to spare even 2M to make the public aware of such projects before they are signed?
 
I really wonder where simple reasoning went.
 
Sigh
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--- On Wed, 7/23/08, John Walubengo <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: John Walubengo <jwalu at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] [kictanet] Expensive Software Systems -What of the Immigration System?
To: "James Kagwe" <jkagwe at KIPPRA.OR.KE>
Cc: "skunk" <skunkworks at my.co.ke>, "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 6:16 PM

I saw somewhere  - I think Business Daily - that the Immigration System our
Minister Kajwang intends to launch will cost us 20Million Dollars.  I wish
someone could give us a breakdown on this...20x70=1400 Million KSH or
1.4Billion Ksh.

Not cheap by any standard. Anybody who can shed some light on whether this
includes HWare/Telecommunication Systems etc etc is it purely Code/sofware?

walu.


--- On Tue, 7/22/08, James Kagwe <jkagwe at KIPPRA.OR.KE> wrote:

> From: James Kagwe <jkagwe at KIPPRA.OR.KE>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Expensive Software Systems [Update]
> To: jwalu at yahoo.com
> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions"
<kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 2:28 PM
> "Windows Explorer" browser? Who wrote this
> document???
> 
>  
> 
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> On Behalf Of wesley kiriinya
> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 3:18 PM
> To: James Kagwe
> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
> Subject: [kictanet] Expensive Software Systems [Update]
> 
>  
> 
> 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.
> 
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