[kictanet] Companies registry website cost 62 million, cant even search….

[Andrea Bohnstedt]

Thanks for the clarification, Paul.

The online company registry struck me as a particularly useful idea, so I
was baffled by the fact that a contract carried out in 2007 yielded such a
seemingly useless website. So what I'd like to know - and maybe this is for
more people than just Paul to answer since this wasn't all done by the ICT
Board, if I understand correctly:

If this 'simple website' was contracted out in 2007, was there any
awareness that the company registry records would not be available in
digital format (since the contract to digitise the content is only being
worked on now)? I.e. was a website contracted that would have no content
for .... well, for how long? Why is a project structured this way in the
first place?

When you say that another process is taking place now to search and display
content, then this is a complete duplication, no? Any idea when this
very-useful-if-it-works website will be up and running?

Thanks, Andrea



On 12 May 2012 22:31, Paul Kukubo <pkukubo at ict.go.ke> wrote:

> Listers/ Andrea
>
> The Company registry project in question refers to the work the Kenya ICT
> Board contracted out for the conversion of paper records into digital
> files. There is another process taking place now to create a system to
> search and display records. Eventually this will be linked to the website
> and SMS.
>
> The website existed prior to that and was cotracted out through a 2006 or
> 2007 tender by GJLOS program. Kenya ICT Board was not involved in the web
> development project.
>
> Regards
> Paul Kukubo
> Kenya ICT Board.
>
>
> On Friday, May 11, 2012, Andrea Bohnstedt wrote:
>
>> This is baffling to me. I'm not a tech person, so it's well possibly that
>> I'm not tech literate enough, but I checked out the website (
>> http://www.attorney-general.go.ke/data/) and ... umm, does the 'company
>> registry' actually do anything?
>>
>> Also, has the ownership of 3Mice changed or is there a conflict of
>> interest?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11 May 2012 01:08, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
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