@Kanini thanks for the great stewardship so far. My 2 Cents: 1: Resource allocation. I am of the opinion that over and above budget allocation to ICT, is the overarching elephant in the room: Standards. My personal experience with ICT procurements in the county is that they are mostly vendor driven. As a result, there will be 47 different approaches to solving IT problems and systems designed are often overpriced and often-time not really value for money. They also don't talk to each other, and terms of engagement are also gray. All the issues discussed, data protection, etc etc are subject to terms of engagement that we the public might not be privy to. Ill Give an unrelated example of a 15 year revenue collection contract that my county got into with some private entity, something that exposes loads of personal information & data to a third party who may not be bound to data protection responsibility that would be expected of elected government. Question / suggestion to the senate. Maybe its time the law defines what the bare minimums should be in ICT procurements, and what acceptable standards for valuation should be, and what standard Terms of reference should be whenever contracts of this nature are executed. Regards, Areba.