<font color="#000066"><font size="2"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">@Robert My strength is in building the infrastructure, not building applications :-). I can create the platform the app is to be created on.</font></font></font><div>
<font color="#000066"><font size="2"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000066"><font size="2"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">At the end of the day, it's something rather simple to do, I guess the first thing to be done is to have the meeting to see what resources can be raised and what the shortfalls are. </font></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#000066"><font size="2"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000066"><font size="2"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">What's most important is to get a system out there. Whether it will have to be built from scratch or we can customise an open source system.</font></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#000066"><font size="2"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000066"><font size="2"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Additionally, can't such a system be spun off as a University student project? Especially considering Nairobi University, Kenyatta University and Moi University both have Computer Science departments and teaching/referral hospitals (in the case of Nairobi University, its Kenyatta, if I'm not wrong, KU is building a Hospital) and medical departments... The app can be developed and hosted within the university with a young testing audience while getting the expertise from the experienced teachers etc... Just a suggestion on how it can work... Kenyatta University may actually be the best bet as everything is in the formative stages... </font></font></font></div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:30 PM, James Kariuki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jkariuki@gmail.com" target="_blank">jkariuki@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
While the discussion is going on. The National Academies Press has<br>
released 4000 books online for free online.<br>
(<a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/free-for-all-national-academies-press-puts-all-4000-books-online-at-no-charge/31582" target="_blank">http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/free-for-all-national-academies-press-puts-all-4000-books-online-at-no-charge/31582</a>)<br>
<br>
One particular reference that could be of interest to this discussion<br>
is the: Computational Technology for Effective Health Care: Immediate<br>
Steps and Strategic Directions<br>
(<a href="http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12572" target="_blank">http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12572</a>). It provides some<br>
reasonably well articulated "principles of access" that could be<br>
applicable in our situation. It also provides/defines the roles of the<br>
key stakeholders in the implementation of successful Health IT<br>
programs<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<font color="#888888">--James<br>
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On 7 June 2011 11:49, Barrack Otieno <<a href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com" target="_blank">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On point Victor, hence the reason I chose the title of vision 2030 and<br>
> misplaced priorities, we will continue building infrastructure using<br>
> debt and use them to dry maize or have our goats which know nothing<br>
> about return on investment rest on them simply because we allowed<br>
> those who know why to develop and implement projects without<br>
> involvement of the affected, I read in a book that he who knows how is<br>
> always at the mercy of he who knows why, I admit people are losing<br>
> faith in stakeholder forums and calling them talkshops because there<br>
> is no one to hold accountable, the leaders blame the citizens yet the<br>
> citizens try to ensure that they have a comfortable environment so<br>
> that they can think on their behalf through paying taxes.<br>
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