<div dir="ltr">Bwana Ndemo,<br>I have not been a fan of committees and inquiries but I hope its appropriate to suggest that you set up one under your ministry to investigate, recommend and enlighten us (read) those in the software industry.<br>
<br>Kenyans can script the missing code to link the two databases. I mean...the software...it must be just two databases requiring relational code. But I can't say that with finality.<br><br>Bill Kagai<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Brian Munyao Longwe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@caret.net">brian@caret.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Actually Bill I think that this is just a clear and perfect example (or expression) of the dire need for standards in Govt implementation of ICT projects as well as coordination across departments.<div><br></div><div>Since both of us are techies - we know that integration between system no matter the origin or the language/database/message formats is simply a matter of a deliberate integration process. Clearly that is missing in this picture - and rather than deal with the real problem, the actors have resorted to finger pointing/blame game and all the other forms of unhelpful and time-wasting bureacracy that plague large institutions like governments (as well as many corporates). I can assure that if there was commitment to process and deliverables from the top down to the bottom, these issues could have/would have been sorted ages ago.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Our "Waafrika" problem is that when faced with challenges we'd rather tear each other down than face the problems head on and (together) tear them down.</div><div><br></div><div>Brian</div>
<div><br></div><div><br><div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><div>On Aug 25, 2008, at 10:04 PM, Bill Kagai wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><div dir="ltr"><br>I am watching news in awe where they are reporting that Kenya Ports Authority has deployed a Korean piece of software (Kwatos) to ease turn-around at the Port but now its not working well with the Kenya Revenue Authority software from Chile (Simba). Ofcourse both cost billions.<br>
<br>As the spanish-speaking chileans 'haga el informe con los otros extranjeros' with the Koreans to '소프트웨어를 저희를 위해 일한' , sisi wakenya tunangoja kusaidiwa. Mwafrika anajimaliza mwenyewe...as Baba Gideon would say. <<a href="http://uk.babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt" target="_blank">http://uk.babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt</a>><br>
<br>The result according to one Mureithi of Kenya Shipping Associations is that port has now become a 'store' rather than a 'door' taking ages (14 days instead of 3 days) to clear goods because of the software conflict. Here be dragons...is this a kictanet sized problem...or do we just watch and comment later in another study on this discussion forum????<br>
<br>Time for an ICT Commission of Inquiry ??? <br><br>Bill Kagai<br></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>
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