[kictanet] South Africa embraces ICT in polls

[Gakuru Alex]

Wasalaale! Please stop suspecting here's hard truth. Nowadays the
'real' money is in procurement.
<http://www.ppoa.go.ke/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=47>. You
recall the time all 3,000 were sacked some years back..

Since the Public Procurement and Disposal Act, 2005 came into effect.
They changed tact and they put every hurdle in availing information
that would enable open tendering. Most of the costly ads are for PR..
An example? One of them recently called me asking me to inform a group
of SMEs I was lobbying they get government business, to go collect
tender documents from their procurement department at 6 pm. The
deadline for submission was 9 am the following morning. You get what I
am saying? You don't suppose that person sat on that information 'by
accident' all the while?

FOI would mean that anyone can go back and demand, for example, all
communication, call logs etc that Civil Servant had prior to the
tender award? Should pattern be established than impling that the law
was broken, then that somebody would find themselves on the other side
of the law. Just one example.


On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:16 PM,  <mwangi at wamae.com> wrote:
> Alex:
>
> I suspect that civil servants are not anti the FOI per se, but afraid that digitization will lead to job cuts and, to be somewhat cynical, reduce their ability to exact "rents" from their jobs.
>
> -Mwangi, Jhb
> Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists at gmail.com>
>
> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:37:59
> To: <mwangi.wamae at gmail.com>
> Cc: <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] South Africa embraces ICT in polls
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:09 PM,  <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:
>
>> resistance from staff.  It is not all that easy as I once thought.  We
>> shall not give up though.  Parliament has to pass the FOI for all the
>> digitization to stimulate enterprise.
>>
>
> The Media:
>
> Please help in exposing more Civil Servants frustrating openness in
> government. How does FOI  threaten their interests? Why is the
> Official Secrets Act their continued corruption cover-up. What
> corruption perpetuating networks and cartels exist? Tally which MPs
> declare their support for FOI if tabled in parliament today?
>
> regards,
>
> Alex
>
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