@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-puts-all-4000-books-online-at-no-charge/31582)

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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