<span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The document looks strategic.</span><div style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br></div><div style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="http://pedromatias.co.uk/what-is-strategy-strategy-vs-planning/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://pedromatias.co.uk/what-is-strategy-strategy-vs-planning/</a></div>
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If it is a plan, then it could offer�basic financial education (guidelines) to purchase sufficient skills and time for Transparency Enhancing IT projects.</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br></div><div style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">As a general rule, in developed nations, for every dollar spent on (non discounted mid level) software licensing, a dollar is spent on implementation. Over 6-7 years, they generally spend 6-7 times the initial cost of the software licenses to maintain or enhance it.</div>
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Adapting this to our local (lower wage) situation: 30% to 50% of licensing costs should be budgeted for deployment of software.</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br>Go.Ke budgets for implementation and maintenance seem to be 5% to 10% of software licensing prices.�</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br></div><div style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">This is why so much enterprise software purchased goes without being well deployed, if it is deployed at all.</div>
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There should be a minimum�<u>annual</u>�budget of 30% (of initial license costs) for maintenance over 5-10 years.</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br></div><div style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Large vendors support software for up to 10 years + by that time, the initial hardware will have given in to age.</div>
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Older software costs more to maintain as younger (more affordable) technologists are not interested in learning it.</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br></div><div style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">There should be penalties for non performance - sabotage - starving IT (Transparency Enhancing) projects of funds.</div>
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Research recently noted on this list:</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<div><font size="1"><b>"Government of Kenya spends 0.3% on IT as a percentage of overall spending. This is 20 times less than government industry average of 6.5% . (based on Gartner benchmarks).</b></font></div><div>
<font size="1"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="1"><b>a. � �Most of the spending is on hardware at 65% compared to global benchmark of 18%. IT spending on staff is significantly lower 18% as opposed to 38% for global benchmark."</b></font></div>
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<br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Paul Kukubo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pkukubo@ict.go.ke" target="_blank">pkukubo@ict.go.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Listers<div><br></div><div>The Kenya ICT Board wishes to invite comments towards the completion of the Kenya ICT Masterplan 2012-2017 being developed on bhealf of the Ministry of Information and Communication.<div><br></div>
<div>The link to view the draft can be found here. �We shall also be finalizing a Facebook page to receive comments on the same.<br><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/110892993/Kenya-ICT-Masterplan-2012-2017-For-Review" style="line-height:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://www.scribd.com/doc/110892993/Kenya-ICT-Masterplan-2012-2017-For-Review</font></a><br dir="ltr">
</div><div><br>We propose to open this out for comment for 10 days after which we shall commence the process of editing and finalisation.</div></div></div><div><br></div><div>This review process follows several review forums where the summary masterplan has been presented to various stakeholders for comment including workshops, conferences.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We welcome comments and proposals through this forum in order to enrich and complete this process.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>CEO</div><div>Paul Kukubo<span></span></div>
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