<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' ><tr><td valign='top' style='font: inherit;'><P>That's the problem with how these things are done. Chini ya carpet. All the mwananchi knows is that taxes are going up like a helium ballon! Moreover threating the mwananchi with large fines to force them to obey archaic rules that the people who created don't understand and can't follow.</P>
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<P>Even if the system costs that much is it difficult to spare even 2M to make the public aware of such projects <STRONG>before they are signed</STRONG>?</P>
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<P>I really wonder where simple reasoning went.</P>
<P> </P>
<P>Sigh</P>
<P>8~(<BR><BR><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,127); FONT-FAMILY: arial">------------------------------------<BR>A fool is not a danger to himself, but to everyone else around him.</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,127); FONT-FAMILY: arial"></SPAN><BR><BR>--- On <B>Wed, 7/23/08, John Walubengo <I><jwalu@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: John Walubengo <jwalu@yahoo.com><BR>Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] [kictanet] Expensive Software Systems -What of the Immigration System?<BR>To: "James Kagwe" <jkagwe@KIPPRA.OR.KE><BR>Cc: "skunk" <skunkworks@my.co.ke>, "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><BR>Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 6:16 PM<BR><BR><PRE>I saw somewhere - I think Business Daily - that the Immigration System our
Minister Kajwang intends to launch will cost us 20Million Dollars. I wish
someone could give us a breakdown on this...20x70=1400 Million KSH or
1.4Billion Ksh.
Not cheap by any standard. Anybody who can shed some light on whether this
includes HWare/Telecommunication Systems etc etc is it purely Code/sofware?
walu.
--- On Tue, 7/22/08, James Kagwe <jkagwe@KIPPRA.OR.KE> wrote:
> From: James Kagwe <jkagwe@KIPPRA.OR.KE>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Expensive Software Systems [Update]
> To: jwalu@yahoo.com
> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions"
<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 2:28 PM
> "Windows Explorer" browser? Who wrote this
> document???
>
>
>
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> On Behalf Of wesley kiriinya
> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 3:18 PM
> To: James Kagwe
> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
> Subject: [kictanet] Expensive Software Systems [Update]
>
>
>
> Following the previous post about the KPA software system
> which costs > 200M (about 450M including hardware
> machines), I found the following interesting:
>
>
http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8717&Itemid=5847
>
> In summary, the system only uses Internet Explorer (which
> makes one wonder whether a requirements document was ever
> created). I can already see your eyes twitching and teeth
> grinding so I will stop there... And it seems like KRA˘s
> Simba's system is IE only also.
>
> I hope this area of ICT is covered in the policy so that
> Kenyans (whom I believe are very talented) are empowered to
> take up such projects.
>
> Regards.
>
> When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty.
> I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have
> finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is
> wrong.
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