Colleagues, Could we add this to Prof. Waemas townhall agenda, Evans and Matunda probably you could take members through your proposals. We have had Kenyans working for RITA amd sure SITA as well, their ideas are welcome. Regards On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:48 AM, <ikua@lpakenya.org> wrote:
Its good that you mention SITA in this forum. I have also interacted with them and one thing that really stands out is the way they have embraced FOSS. They have a very clear strategic outlook for open source migration in the Government of ZA.
The ICT board should borrow a leaf from them. I wonder why they did not see this clearly even after their visit to Malaysia. Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, Britain, Germany, and USA are among countries that have very clear FOSS policies that recognize the benefit of using FOSS (Just to digress a little).
Ikua
Quoting Matunda Nyanchama <mnyanchama@aganoconsulting.com>:
I am wondering whether Kenya has the equivalent of RITA (Rwanda) or SITA (South Africa).
My short interaction with SITA clearly shows they are filling a major need in ICT operations, capacity building, standardization, etc. across governments. Among key gains are in such areas as procurement, service delivery, information protection, technology platform standardization (e.g. end user devices), application development methodology. It also provides economies of scale for entry: municipalities, provincial governments, etc don't have to duplicate (especially in facilities, networks, data centres, etc.) what already exists.
Although it is a government agency, it is ran as a profitable company and has creative ways of making money, e.g. extending services to the private sector.
Any plans/hope of building a Kenyan KITA? Or transforming ICT Board to such active operational role?
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