But surely we are past the mentality of "that's how it has always been done".

Given that the bid bond is 500,000, and a bid bond is usually a fraction of the budget, how much money are we spending airlifting speeches where a simple PDF attachment to email will suffice? Especially given we are complaining about runaway government spending?


On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
Worse still if the US can listen to our Presidents conversation (good to know we are the league of German Prime Minister :-), what is it we are trying to hide in a presidential speech that would be public knowledge before the end of the day :-)

This question came up in a previous ConnectedKenya summit in Mombasa but was never convincingly answered. But I think the answer is simple.  There has been a budget to airlift the presidents speech since independence. What has been changing is not the technology, but who gets (eats?) that budget :-)

walu.
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On Wed, 6/4/14, Rad! via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Tender to airlift presidential speeches puzzles        kenyans
 To: jwalu@yahoo.com
 Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2014, 3:36 PM

 There are plenty of
 techniques and tools to cryptographically sign and send
 documents.

 On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at
 3:27 PM, Grace Githaiga via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
 wrote:




 Is there a secure way to email
 them?

 http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/entertainment/article/2000123584/tender-to-airlift-presidential-speeches-puzzles-kenyans



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