From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] computers and problems.
To: kiriinya2000@yahoo.com
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 11:43 AM

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:36 AM, wesley kiriinya <kiriinya2000@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> So I'm writing this up as something to provoke some thought in our IT
minds
> as we go about innovating and creating policies in IT.
>
> I believe it would be fair to say that computers don't solve our
problems,
> rather they make the solutions more efficient and/or convinient.
>
> Many people believe that computers and similar gadgets solve their
problems.
> Companies that create computers and marketers have used this idea to sell
> their products to the less IT knowlegable population. Because of various
> lies and half truths the ideas of the original creator of a product are
> never communicated therefore one finds people with different
understandings
> of the same technology and what it does. Although this has existed for a
> long time it's only coming out clealy in the IT field because of its
fast
> changing nature. Within one year what one knows about a technology can
> change as more about the technology is revealed.
>
> Looking at what computers do, they are machines that run software, and
> software is just a bunch of instructions that manipulate hardware. A piece
> of software seems to solve a problem to the un-knowlegable IT user but to
> the originator/creator the solution was already created even before it was
> implemented in software ( otherwise what would the software be doing?
> Reminding you about your problems? ) and it is from this perspective that
I
> believe computers can be viewed because by doing it the other way round
one
> ends up with managers who buy tonnes of computer equipment and software
> thinking their company woes will suddenly come to an end ( It's easier
to
> ask God for a miracle! ).
>
> The problems need to be defined and solutions created in the ordinary way,
> leaving out the machines. Then let the machines do what they do best,
crunch
> numbers faster and transmit data faster than humans.
>
> Comments and criticisms most welcome.

Criticism: Which section of the ICT Policy document would you like
this to go into? The preamble, maybe? :-)

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