[kictanet] On ICT Board

[Barrack Otieno]

Colleagues,

Could we add this to Prof. Waemas townhall agenda, Evans and Matunda
probably you could take members through your proposals. We have had
Kenyans working for RITA amd sure SITA as well, their ideas are
welcome.

Regards

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:48 AM,  <ikua at lpakenya.org> wrote:
> Its good that you mention SITA in this forum. I have also interacted with
> them and one thing that really stands out is the way they have embraced
> FOSS. They have a very clear strategic outlook for open source migration in
> the Government of ZA.
>
> The ICT board should borrow a leaf from them. I wonder why they did not see
> this clearly even after their visit to Malaysia. Malaysia, New Zealand,
> Australia, Brazil, Britain, Germany, and USA are among countries that have
> very clear FOSS policies that recognize the benefit of using FOSS (Just to
> digress a little).
>
> Ikua
>
> Quoting Matunda Nyanchama <mnyanchama at aganoconsulting.com>:
>
>> I am wondering whether Kenya has the equivalent of RITA (Rwanda) or  SITA
>> (South Africa).
>>
>> My short interaction with SITA clearly shows they are filling a  major
>> need in ICT operations, capacity building, standardization,  etc. across
>> governments. Among key gains are in such areas as  procurement, service
>> delivery, information protection, technology  platform standardization (e.g.
>> end user devices), application  development methodology. It also provides
>> economies of scale for  entry: municipalities, provincial governments, etc
>> don't have to  duplicate (especially in facilities, networks, data centres,
>> etc.)  what already exists.
>>
>> Although it is a government agency, it is ran as a profitable  company and
>> has creative ways of making money, e.g. extending  services to the private
>> sector.
>>
>> Any plans/hope of building a Kenyan KITA? Or transforming ICT Board  to
>> such active operational role?
>>
>>
>>
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>> Matunda Nyanchama, mnyanchama at aganoconsulting.com
>> Agano Consulting Inc.;  www.aganoconsulting.com
>>
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>> ?If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these  apples
>> then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you  have an idea and
>> I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then  each of us will have two
>> ideas.?- George Bernard Shaw
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