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Kenya Government IT expenditure summary.

(Extracted from the Shared Services Masterplan presented to Directorate of Egovernment and prepared by the Kenya ICT Board under the Ministry of Information and Communications and Accenture in June 2010). These stastitics were collected through research, visits and analysis of public sector documents over several months. The team collected IT budget, spending workfoce asset and project information from 42 ministries and 4 entities. They further assessed detailed application data and infrastructure for 8 ministries.There is also a report for the local government that is similar.

1.    There are currently 80+ technology enabled projects in the public sector across 39 ministries worth over Kshs 35 billion.  Divided into Digitization, Appilications and Infrastructure.

2.    Key among them core projects undertaken by various entities include are:

a.    The proposed National Lands information management system

b.    High court registry digitization and application

c.    Digitization of company registry

d.    Kenya Government unified communications and messaging

e.    Education management system

f.     Integrated Financial Management System (IFMIS)

g.    Many other applications that are ministry specific.

h.    KENET bandwidth capacity purchase for universities

i.      Government data centre

j.     Government’s core communications network

k.    Bandwith support to government

l.      Various other infrastructure projects

3.    Above figures exclude some major state corporations projects that were not on the radar at the time of the research. There are many more requirements for digitzation

a.    Automation of National Social Security Fund

b.    Digitization and automation of Kenyatta National Hospital

4.    The Masterplan proposed the establishment of a shared services centre. The consolidation of IT supports functions from several departments or agencies into a single, stand-alone organization entity whose only mission is to provide services as efficiently and effectively as possible.

5.    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).

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.