<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top"><p dir="ltr">I would like to second the thoughts of Ray here. </p>
<p dir="ltr">With due credit to the people who crafted the whole process, I seriously hope there were no steps missed or any willful blindness . This is a very expensive project and such mistakes can be detrimental. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Training of teachers must be thoroughly conducted - not only use of computers but content design and development for digital instruction, management of blended learning, hardware maintenance, etc. with out leaving out the change management part. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I foresee chaos on the first day of computer use in class pivoted by the excitement of the teacher and the students alike. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I am not sure if std 1 or primary shool teachers receive any IT training in college. Maybe this should be a mandatory requirement in syllabi.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Just my thoughts.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Kipkirui.<br>
Digital Links Tanzania. </p>
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<p class=""><br></p><p class="">This video talks about three points:</p><p class="">a) Bidders want to extend the timeline: Why would government like to extend the timeline? Will they still meet the delivery timeline?</p>
<p class="">How many laptops per minute one would manufacture to meet the delivery timeline of two months after award of the contract? Do they have existing inventory of exactly same specs?</p><p class="">b) Bidders would like the government to test the solution: </p>
<p class="">Is there a specific procedure that government(MOE) will use to test the offered solution in real situation before paying so much money? I think that it's important to get the laptop, software and content piloted in real schools/situation before we spend 14.7 Billion Ksh tax payer money. Why is this step skipped? Is it not important?</p>
<p class="">I also read an article that government refused to give benefit to the youth under this transaction claiming that it's an international tender.</p><p class="">Members? Thoughts?</p><p class="">Ray Keller<br>
</p><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Grace Githaiga <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:ggithaiga@hotmail.com" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">ggithaiga@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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