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Visiting A leading university today I had the pleasure of bumping into the University’s IT Director. The quick five minute conversation covered the issue of cloud. I asked her the question, “would you consider moving your IT to the cloud?”. “Yes”, she said, “once the IT systems, policies and procedures were fully settled and more [...]
This morning I was blown away by the presentation by Serene Ho, Deputy Director who was accompanied by her Director Ms Yen Fong Yip from the IDA (Infocomm Development Authority) International, Singapore http://www.idainternational.sg a subsidiary of IDA Singapore, http://www.ida.gov.sg. Serene presented at an Kenya ICT Board sponsored Breakfast meeting on the Singapore Journey with a [...]
Software Standards Certification for Kenya
4 Feb 2010I have received many direct emails and I thought I might want to respond to one publicly and BCC the gentleman who raised the issues. Thank you for your email. I welcome further questions and suggestions. My answers are in below the questions 1. Scope of the project-Is it meant to cover software alone or [...]
Update on ICT Board projects
2 Feb 2010As we prepare to subject our final draft of the strategic plan to validation by stakeholders, it comes us a welcome wake up call for us to beef up our communication to our various stakeholders, whom are many and varied. I therefore take this opportunity to issue an update on the status of the projects.
The digital villages project (Pasha) is still on track. The Board sends out regular communication to those who underwent the first lot of entrepreneurship training in October 2009, as well as other trainees applicants due to be trained in the next phases over the next two years.. The portal www.pasha.co.ke is also active and is [...]
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- Mb?r? Kamau: Yeah, quiet a long has happened in the last one year, but you didn't mention Kenya shining in Daegu, [...]
- Paul: Interesting comment. The Kenya ICT Board has a 40,000 plus mailing list, and subsists for every proj [...]
- Mash: Interesting blog, I have been following ICT Kenya and you got some interesting projects going on, th [...]
- jared manyien: hi Paul, am an e-commerce enterpreneur.i wish to state how lucky you are.you co-founded 3mice inter [...]
- Wilson Mwiti: This is powerful bro! An inspiration and a beacon of hope for technocrats! Well looking foward to [...]
- Quick discussion with a leading Kenyan IT director
- Since I last blogged.. Great to be back
- Initial thoughts, letter to Kictanet
- Our challenges are the best ‘capital’ we can have… a prelude to the 2nd Connected Gov workshop
- Lessons, snippets, from the visit by the Singaporeans
- Software Standards Certification for Kenya
- Update on ICT Board projects
- ICT Board Pasha Project is very much on track
- Busy week….
- Developing local ICT businesses.. An initial to do list