[kictanet] State to partner with Israeli firm to create online database of Kenyans

[Ngigi Waithaka]

This is interesting,  why?

1. PPPs should be guided by an open and transparent process where GoK
advertises for those with intent to partner to apply.
This didn't happen.

2. If there is no competition, how do we ensure we are getting value for
money?

3. Whatever happened to building some of these solutions locally. Yet
another 1000 software engineers jobs we have exported to Israel to help
them build more bombs to break up Gaza!

Waithaka Ngigi

Alliance Technologies
Nairobi, Kenya

www.A1.io
On 17 Aug 2014 01:04, "S.M. Muraya via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Not sure why we need Israelis to build this database for Kenya. They could
> guide/train us but it is not for non Kenyans to lead its development and
> management.
>
>
> http://www.nation.co.ke/business/Online-Database-Technology-Public-Servants-Profile/-/996/2421390/-/svf5fw/-/index.html
>
> Kenyan State to partner with Israeli firm to create online database of
> Kenyans
>
> Note comments made in 2009.....
>
> *Israel Poised To Pass National I.D. Database Law*
>
> By Nathan Jeffay
>
> Published August 12, 2009, issue of August 21, 2009.
>
> HAIFA, ISRAEL — Israel may become the only democratic country to take
> biometric information from all citizens and store it in a database.
>
> The plan, approved by a Knesset committee and set for a final vote in the
> fall, is expected to pass easily, as the largest opposition party and the
> government support the bill. But that apparently won’t prevent outraged
> human rights organizations, academics and grass-roots activists from
> spending the rest of the summer protesting the plan.
>
> Champions of the database say it is crucial for Israel’s security. “The
> danger to the state in the present situation, in which there is no database
> of biometric information, is critical,” according to Kadima lawmaker Meir
> Sheetrit, who drafted the bill.
>
> But opponents say that it actually will jeopardize security. “If such a
> database gets in the hands of a foreign country or terrorist organization,
> they will be able to identify any Israeli anywhere by their fingerprints or
> their picture,” claimed computer security expert Eli Biham, dean of
> computer science at Israel’s leading high-tech research institution, the
> Haifa-based Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
>
> Read more:
> http://forward.com/articles/112033/israel-poised-to-pass-national-id-database-law/#ixzz3AavDDUx5
>
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