@Robert My strength is in building the infrastructure, not building applications :-). I can create the platform the app is to be created on. 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. 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. 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... On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:30 PM, James Kariuki <jkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
While the discussion is going on. The National Academies Press has released 4000 books online for free online. ( http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/free-for-all-national-academies-press... )
One particular reference that could be of interest to this discussion is the: Computational Technology for Effective Health Care: Immediate Steps and Strategic Directions (http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12572). It provides some reasonably well articulated "principles of access" that could be applicable in our situation. It also provides/defines the roles of the key stakeholders in the implementation of successful Health IT programs
Regards --James
On 7 June 2011 11:49, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> wrote:
On point Victor, hence the reason I chose the title of vision 2030 and misplaced priorities, we will continue building infrastructure using debt and use them to dry maize or have our goats which know nothing about return on investment rest on them simply because we allowed those who know why to develop and implement projects without involvement of the affected, I read in a book that he who knows how is always at the mercy of he who knows why, I admit people are losing faith in stakeholder forums and calling them talkshops because there is no one to hold accountable, the leaders blame the citizens yet the citizens try to ensure that they have a comfortable environment so that they can think on their behalf through paying taxes.
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