Happy birthday Ali!

As for the article, I only had time to skim it but sentences like these make me wonder about the authors:

"The iTax platform in Kenya has been grossly underused by the public. KRA saw a high number turn out at its offices once the iTax system was operational. Most people did not know how to use the service and they needed assistance. It has now set up customer service centres to help users."

The iTax platform didn't work and it was a ham-fisted deployment.  Did KRA really just get ahead of the PR problem and convince IDG that this was a user error???  If so, I'm impressed with their media outreach team.

-Adam

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On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Andrea

Now did you have to go and splash my birthday like that? :) 

The power of social media I guess...:)

Thanks Andrea. And for those of you who are wondering how old I am - 21 years. :)

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On Sep 8, 2014, at 10:39 AM, Andrea Bohnstedt <andrea.bohnstedt@ratio-magazine.com> wrote:

Happy birthday, Ali :)

On 8 September 2014 10:34, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Listers

Interesting article. Although a lot still needs to be done we must take stock and see how greater engagement between the private and public sector can grow this important aspect of public-private partnerships.


Ali Hussein

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