The document looks strategic.
If it is a plan, then it could offer basic financial education (guidelines) to purchase sufficient skills and time for Transparency Enhancing IT projects.
As a general rule, in developed nations, for every dollar spent on (non discounted mid level) software licensing, a dollar is spent on implementation. Over 6-7 years, they generally spend 6-7 times the initial cost of the software licenses to maintain or enhance it.
Adapting this to our local (lower wage) situation: 30% to 50% of licensing costs should be budgeted for deployment of software.
Go.Ke budgets for implementation and maintenance seem to be 5% to 10% of software licensing prices.
This is why so much enterprise software purchased goes without being well deployed, if it is deployed at all.
There should be a minimum annual budget of 30% (of initial license costs) for maintenance over 5-10 years.
Large vendors support software for up to 10 years + by that time, the initial hardware will have given in to age.
Older software costs more to maintain as younger (more affordable) technologists are not interested in learning it.
There should be penalties for non performance - sabotage - starving IT (Transparency Enhancing) projects of funds.
Research recently noted on this list:
"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."
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Paul Kukubo
<pkukubo@ict.go.ke> wrote:
Listers
The Kenya ICT Board wishes to invite comments towards the completion of the Kenya ICT Masterplan 2012-2017 being developed on bhealf of the Ministry of Information and Communication.
The link to view the draft can be found here. We shall also be finalizing a Facebook page to receive comments on the same.
We propose to open this out for comment for 10 days after which we shall commence the process of editing and finalisation.
This review process follows several review forums where the summary masterplan has been presented to various stakeholders for comment including workshops, conferences.
We welcome comments and proposals through this forum in order to enrich and complete this process.
Regards
CEO
Paul Kukubo
Kenya ICT Board
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