Re: [kictanet] Expensive Software Systems [Update]
"Windows Explorer" browser? Who wrote this document??? ________________________________ From: kictanet-bounces+jkagwe=kippra.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+jkagwe=kippra.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of wesley kiriinya Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 3:18 PM To: James Kagwe Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: [kictanet] Expensive Software Systems [Update] Following the previous post about the KPA software system which costs > 200M (about 450M including hardware machines), I found the following interesting: http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8717&Itemid=5847 In summary, the system only uses Internet Explorer (which makes one wonder whether a requirements document was ever created). I can already see your eyes twitching and teeth grinding so I will stop there... And it seems like KRA’s Simba's system is IE only also. I hope this area of ICT is covered in the policy so that Kenyans (whom I believe are very talented) are empowered to take up such projects. Regards. When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -R. Buckminster Fuller.
I saw somewhere - I think Business Daily - that the Immigration System our Minister Kajwang intends to launch will cost us 20Million Dollars. I wish someone could give us a breakdown on this...20x70=1400 Million KSH or 1.4Billion Ksh. Not cheap by any standard. Anybody who can shed some light on whether this includes HWare/Telecommunication Systems etc etc is it purely Code/sofware? walu. --- On Tue, 7/22/08, James Kagwe <jkagwe@KIPPRA.OR.KE> wrote:
From: James Kagwe <jkagwe@KIPPRA.OR.KE> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Expensive Software Systems [Update] To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 2:28 PM "Windows Explorer" browser? Who wrote this document???
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From: kictanet-bounces+jkagwe=kippra.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+jkagwe=kippra.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of wesley kiriinya Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 3:18 PM To: James Kagwe Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: [kictanet] Expensive Software Systems [Update]
Following the previous post about the KPA software system which costs > 200M (about 450M including hardware machines), I found the following interesting:
http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8717&Itemid=5847
In summary, the system only uses Internet Explorer (which makes one wonder whether a requirements document was ever created). I can already see your eyes twitching and teeth grinding so I will stop there... And it seems like KRA’s Simba's system is IE only also.
I hope this area of ICT is covered in the policy so that Kenyans (whom I believe are very talented) are empowered to take up such projects.
Regards.
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -R. Buckminster Fuller._______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet
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That's the problem with how these things are done. Chini ya carpet. All the mwananchi knows is that taxes are going up like a helium ballon! Moreover threating the mwananchi with large fines to force them to obey archaic rules that the people who created don't understand and can't follow. Even if the system costs that much is it difficult to spare even 2M to make the public aware of such projects before they are signed? I really wonder where simple reasoning went. Sigh 8~( ------------------------------------ A fool is not a danger to himself, but to everyone else around him. --- On Wed, 7/23/08, John Walubengo <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote: From: John Walubengo <jwalu@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] [kictanet] Expensive Software Systems -What of the Immigration System? To: "James Kagwe" <jkagwe@KIPPRA.OR.KE> Cc: "skunk" <skunkworks@my.co.ke>, "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 6:16 PM I saw somewhere - I think Business Daily - that the Immigration System our Minister Kajwang intends to launch will cost us 20Million Dollars. I wish someone could give us a breakdown on this...20x70=1400 Million KSH or 1.4Billion Ksh. Not cheap by any standard. Anybody who can shed some light on whether this includes HWare/Telecommunication Systems etc etc is it purely Code/sofware? walu. --- On Tue, 7/22/08, James Kagwe <jkagwe@KIPPRA.OR.KE> wrote:
From: James Kagwe <jkagwe@KIPPRA.OR.KE> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Expensive Software Systems [Update] To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 2:28 PM "Windows Explorer" browser? Who wrote this document???
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From: kictanet-bounces+jkagwe=kippra.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+jkagwe=kippra.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of wesley kiriinya Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 3:18 PM To: James Kagwe Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: [kictanet] Expensive Software Systems [Update]
Following the previous post about the KPA software system which costs > 200M (about 450M including hardware machines), I found the following interesting:
http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8717&Itemid=5847
In summary, the system only uses Internet Explorer (which makes one wonder whether a requirements document was ever created). I can already see your eyes twitching and teeth grinding so I will stop there... And it seems like KRA’s Simba's system is IE only also.
I hope this area of ICT is covered in the policy so that Kenyans (whom I believe are very talented) are empowered to take up such projects.
Regards.
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -R. Buckminster Fuller._______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet
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