It is not off-topic. I was once had a discussion with a county Director of ICT & Research and we were talking about this very thing. The problem, he said, was that it was not possible due to the paranoia against IFMIS access of any type. He was justified after the NYS saga of the IFMIS access. Counties then did not have access to IFMIS to pull and push data of their financial dealings. I don't know whether this has changed. With the best regards, *Jimmy Gitonga* On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 4:20 PM, <kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

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On transparency, if this is not too much off-topic, there should be a portal detailing every single project expense for each county, with a breakdown of who the vendor is, how much they paid, project progress, project results etc. I am not aware of such a portal for Kenya yet I do not know why it has not been created yet. It is easy.

The World Bank has this: http://projects.worldbank.org/P152394?lang=en , e.g. who won the tender to provide IT equipment for a health project in Kenya? Have a look here: http://projects.worldbank.org/ procurement/noticeoverview?lang=en&id=OP00045294

Financial audits from each project, procurement notices etc

This would not be hard to do (presumably linked with IFMIS) and with APIs it would also bring huge amounts of open data that can be analyzed and compared across counties.

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