[kictanet] eGov services how much have we spent?

Alice Munyua alice at apc.org
Wed Sep 26 17:44:42 EAT 2012


  Paul thank you for the comprehensive response. Any possibility of 
having this information updated last 2-3 years to  provide a full 
picture of e-government spending? and can it be made publicly available.

Best
Alice



> Alice and listers
>
>
> Kenya Government IT expenditure summary.
>
> (Extracted from the Shared Services Masterplan presented to 
> Directorate of Egovernment and prepared by the Kenya ICT Board under 
> the Ministry of Information and Communications and Accenture in June 
> 2010). These stastitics were collected through research, visits and 
> analysis of public sector documents over several months. The team 
> collected IT budget, spending workfoce asset and project information 
> from 42 ministries and 4 entities. They further assessed detailed 
> application data and infrastructure for 8 ministries.There is also a 
> report for the local government that is similar.
>
> 1.There are currently 80+ technology enabled projects in the public 
> sector across 39 ministries worth over Kshs 35 billion.Divided into 
> Digitization, Appilications and Infrastructure.
>
> 2.Key among them core projects undertaken by various entities include are:
>
> a.The proposed National Lands information management system
>
> b.High court registry digitization and application
>
> c.Digitization of company registry
>
> d.Kenya Government unified communications and messaging
>
> e.Education management system
>
> f.Integrated Financial Management System (IFMIS)
>
> g.Many other applications that are ministry specific.
>
> h.KENET bandwidth capacity purchase for universities
>
> i.Government data centre
>
> j.Government’s core communications network
>
> k.Bandwith support to government
>
> l.Various other infrastructure projects
>
> 3.Above figures exclude some major state corporations projects that 
> were not on the radar at the time of the research. There are many more 
> requirements for digitzation
>
> a.Automation of National Social Security Fund
>
> b.Digitization and automation of Kenyatta National Hospital
>
> 4.The Masterplan proposed the establishment of a shared services 
> centre. The consolidation of IT supports functions from several 
> departments or agencies into a single, stand-alone organization entity 
> whose only mission is to provide services as efficiently and 
> effectively as possible.
>
> 5.Government of Kenya spends 0.3% on IT as a percentage of overall 
> spending. This is 20 times less than government industry average of 
> 6.5% . (based on Gartner benchmarks).
>
> a.Most of the spending is on hardware at 65% compared to global 
> benchmark of 18%. IT spending on staff is significantly lower 18% as 
> opposed to 38% for global benchmark.
>
>
> Paul Kukubo
> Chief Executive Officer, Kenya ICT Board
> PO Box 27150 - 00100
> Nairobi, Kenya
>
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