[kictanet] How Digital is our Government?

[S.M. Muraya]

We need IT Project Audits to snuff out malpractices.

Some local technologists working in leading telcos earn as much as
Principal Secretaries (officially) earn.

How can a government project (requiring 3 or more software/database
developers) succeed with a budget less than what one Principal Secretary
earns?

How are the best staff retained?

Is it a coincidence, where development of decent transactional systems
succeeds, more is spent on skillsets than on hardware?

On May 28, 2013 6:20 PM, "Ali Hussein" <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:

> Walu
>
> Well written article. I would agree with you on all points. What is
> critical at this point is a master plan on how Government intends to get to
> the transactional and transformative stages.
>
> And we need not re-invent the wheel. There are benchmarks to follow. Good
> examples will be the Government of Dubai and Singapore. And no need for
> visits either to these city states :) the cases and frameworks can all be
> found online. For free.
>
>
> Ali Hussein
> CEO | 3mice interactive media Ltd
> Principal | Telemedia Africa Ltd
>
> +254 713 601113
>
> "The future belongs to him who knows how to wait." - Russian Proverb
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On May 28, 2013, at 3:38 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> With a relatively youthful cabinet, the government formed by an equally
> youthful Jubilee coalition complete with a "digital" manifesto, Kenyans are
> eager to reap the dividends.
> Talk of going digital is high on government agenda - which is a welcome
> continuation of what the previous government had tried to pursue over the
> last ten years. But do we all have the same understanding of what digital
> government is? Does reading government speeches from a Touch-pad imply the
> government is digital? Or is it about having high-ranking government
> officials being active on social media like Facebook and twitter? Perhaps,
> for many others, digital government may simply imply giving laptops to
> standard one pupils.  So what exactly is digital government?
>
> read more @ *http://tinyurl.com/nocr9je*
>
> thought folks at connected government summit in MSA may wish to
> interrogate this...
>
> walu.
>
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