[kictanet] Of Vision 2030 and Misplaced Priorities

[Phares Kariuki]

@Robert My strength is in building the infrastructure, not building
applications :-). I can create the platform the app is to be created on.

At the end of the day, it's something rather simple to do, I guess the first
thing to be done is to have the meeting to see what resources can be raised
and what the shortfalls are.

What's most important is to get a system out there. Whether it will have to
be built from scratch or we can customise an open source system.

Additionally, can't such a system be spun off as a University student
project? Especially considering Nairobi University, Kenyatta University and
Moi University both have Computer Science departments and teaching/referral
hospitals (in the case of Nairobi University,  its Kenyatta, if I'm not
wrong, KU is building a Hospital) and medical departments... The app can be
developed and hosted within the university with a young testing audience
while getting the expertise from the experienced teachers etc... Just a
suggestion on how it can work... Kenyatta University may actually be the
best bet as everything is in the formative stages...

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:30 PM, James Kariuki <jkariuki at gmail.com> wrote:

> While the discussion is going on. The National Academies Press has
> released 4000 books online for free online.
> (
> http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/free-for-all-national-academies-press-puts-all-4000-books-online-at-no-charge/31582
> )
>
> One particular reference that could be of interest to this discussion
> is the: Computational Technology for Effective Health Care: Immediate
> Steps and Strategic Directions
> (http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12572). It provides some
> reasonably well articulated "principles of access" that could be
> applicable in our situation. It also provides/defines the roles of the
> key stakeholders in the implementation of successful Health IT
> programs
>
> Regards
> --James
>
>
> On 7 June 2011 11:49, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On point Victor, hence the reason I chose the title of vision 2030 and
> > misplaced priorities, we will continue building infrastructure using
> > debt and use them to dry maize or have our goats which know nothing
> > about return on investment rest on them simply because we allowed
> > those who know why to develop and  implement projects without
> > involvement of the affected, I read in a book that he who knows how is
> > always at the mercy of he who knows why, I admit people are losing
> > faith in stakeholder forums and calling them talkshops because there
> > is no one to hold accountable, the leaders blame the citizens yet the
> > citizens try to ensure that they have a comfortable environment so
> > that they can think on their behalf through paying taxes.
>
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Phares Kariuki

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