[kictanet] KISERO: Kenya’s corruption tsars have perfected looting through Ifmis - Daily Nation

Sat Dec 3 22:55:07 EAT 2016

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I attended a workshop where the facilitator indicated that only 1% of ICT projects fail because of the technology.

99% of the failure is usually found in people, processes or procedures.

Regards,

Alex

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Subject: Re: [kictanet] KISERO: Kenya’s corruption tsars have perfected looting through Ifmis - Daily Nation

Ali, 

The issue of IFMIS and many of the problems we are facing in our society point to a deeper issue than competencies of human resource. In the face of IFMIS, proposing vetting of practitioners would be akin to scapegoating.  Because as you said, the problem is not lack of capacity but lack of ethics and integrity. 

2016-12-02 5:31 GMT+03:00 Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke <mailto:kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> >:

Listers

Related to to the discussion of 'reigning in' quacks in the ICT Sector how do you explain the fiasco that is IFMIS? 

Except from the article:-

In theory, the Ifmis system we have is based on Oracle E-Business Suite, an accounting package developed by Oracle of the USA. In reality, what is in place is a product of conspiracies between crafty government officials and local rent-seeking software merchants.

Through highly inflated and ill-conceived customisation and re-engineering projects, the merchants have colluded with public officials to create a mongrel of the original Oracle E-Business Suite.

This is the system at the heart of corruption in the public sector.

http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Kenya-corruption-tsars-have-perfected-looting-through-Ifmis/440808-3469632-kg5rbv/

So if we were to talk this discussion a step further:-

1. The customization of an Oracle E-Business Suite cannot be done by a 'quack' who isn't a Certified Oracle Software Engineer.

2. The customization must be approved by the client and mapped with the business processes mutually agreed by the vendor and the customer. In this case the government.

A pig is a pig even if you apply lipstick on it. Let's call this what it is - Corruption. Period. Perpetuated in this case by the client and using qualified IT Professionals. We in the industry must call out the ones who collude to fleece this country instead of chasing a red herring in the name of 'quacks'!

Ali Hussein

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