How Digital is our Government?
With a relatively youthful cabinet, the government formed by an equally youthful Jubilee coalition complete with a "digital" manifesto, Kenyans are eager to reap the dividends. Talk of going digital is high on government agenda - which is a welcome continuation of what the previous government had tried to pursue over the last ten years. But do we all have the same understanding of what digital government is? Does reading government speeches from a Touch-pad imply the government is digital? Or is it about having high-ranking government officials being active on social media like Facebook and twitter? Perhaps, for many others, digital government may simply imply giving laptops to standard one pupils. So what exactly is digital government? read more @ http://tinyurl.com/nocr9je thought folks at connected government summit in MSA may wish to interrogate this... walu.
Walu Well written article. I would agree with you on all points. What is critical at this point is a master plan on how Government intends to get to the transactional and transformative stages. And we need not re-invent the wheel. There are benchmarks to follow. Good examples will be the Government of Dubai and Singapore. And no need for visits either to these city states :) the cases and frameworks can all be found online. For free. Ali Hussein CEO | 3mice interactive media Ltd Principal | Telemedia Africa Ltd +254 713 601113 "The future belongs to him who knows how to wait." - Russian Proverb Sent from my iPad On May 28, 2013, at 3:38 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
With a relatively youthful cabinet, the government formed by an equally youthful Jubilee coalition complete with a "digital" manifesto, Kenyans are eager to reap the dividends. Talk of going digital is high on government agenda - which is a welcome continuation of what the previous government had tried to pursue over the last ten years. But do we all have the same understanding of what digital government is? Does reading government speeches from a Touch-pad imply the government is digital? Or is it about having high-ranking government officials being active on social media like Facebook and twitter? Perhaps, for many others, digital government may simply imply giving laptops to standard one pupils. So what exactly is digital government?
read more @ http://tinyurl.com/nocr9je
thought folks at connected government summit in MSA may wish to interrogate this...
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We need IT Project Audits to snuff out malpractices. Some local technologists working in leading telcos earn as much as Principal Secretaries (officially) earn. How can a government project (requiring 3 or more software/database developers) succeed with a budget less than what one Principal Secretary earns? How are the best staff retained? Is it a coincidence, where development of decent transactional systems succeeds, more is spent on skillsets than on hardware? On May 28, 2013 6:20 PM, "Ali Hussein" <ali@hussein.me.ke> wrote:
Walu
Well written article. I would agree with you on all points. What is critical at this point is a master plan on how Government intends to get to the transactional and transformative stages.
And we need not re-invent the wheel. There are benchmarks to follow. Good examples will be the Government of Dubai and Singapore. And no need for visits either to these city states :) the cases and frameworks can all be found online. For free.
Ali Hussein CEO | 3mice interactive media Ltd Principal | Telemedia Africa Ltd
+254 713 601113
"The future belongs to him who knows how to wait." - Russian Proverb
Sent from my iPad
On May 28, 2013, at 3:38 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
With a relatively youthful cabinet, the government formed by an equally youthful Jubilee coalition complete with a "digital" manifesto, Kenyans are eager to reap the dividends. Talk of going digital is high on government agenda - which is a welcome continuation of what the previous government had tried to pursue over the last ten years. But do we all have the same understanding of what digital government is? Does reading government speeches from a Touch-pad imply the government is digital? Or is it about having high-ranking government officials being active on social media like Facebook and twitter? Perhaps, for many others, digital government may simply imply giving laptops to standard one pupils. So what exactly is digital government?
read more @ *http://tinyurl.com/nocr9je*
thought folks at connected government summit in MSA may wish to interrogate this...
walu.
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Walubengo J