I would like to second the thoughts of Ray here. With due credit to the people who crafted the whole process, I seriously hope there were no steps missed or any willful blindness . This is a very expensive project and such mistakes can be detrimental. Training of teachers must be thoroughly conducted - not only use of computers but content design and development for digital instruction, management of blended learning, hardware maintenance, etc. with out leaving out the change management part. I foresee chaos on the first day of computer use in class pivoted by the excitement of the teacher and the students alike. I am not sure if std 1 or primary shool teachers receive any IT training in college. Maybe this should be a mandatory requirement in syllabi. Just my thoughts. Kipkirui. Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android |
This video talks about three points: a) Bidders want to extend the timeline: Why would government like to extend the timeline? Will they still meet the delivery timeline? How many laptops per minute one would manufacture to meet the delivery timeline of two months after award of the contract? Do they have existing inventory of exactly same specs? b) Bidders would like the government to test the solution: Is there a specific procedure that government(MOE) will use to test the offered solution in real situation before paying so much money? I think that it's important to get the laptop, software and content piloted in real schools/situation before we spend 14.7 Billion Ksh tax payer money. Why is this step skipped? Is it not important? I also read an article that government refused to give benefit to the youth under this transaction claiming that it's an international tender. Members? Thoughts? Ray Keller On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga@hotmail.com> wrote:
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