Obscene sum for software development
You have heard! Local Governments setting up school buildings only to be blown away by wind or swept away by floods. Really, it shows a case of a country that has reached the lowest ebb! For the ministry of works, cant use the cheapest of technologies to design, model and later distribute stronger and better building designs. No they cant! This is a computer age, and not even a ministers village in Ntinda has a proper sewer system. Now we hear, Nakasero is the new Muyenga without the most basic infrastructure in place for the roads, drainage or sewer, last updated by the colonialist. They knew what we dont know! What the executive would have done, is to get an architect design a Nakasero landscape and put in all possible scenarios to get a real time feeling of what reality would be, Nakasero turning out to be what it will be into the future. It is the remaining green in the city. Lugogo is gone for super markets as if such markets could not be located in better places! Nakasero today is a commercial area from a residential area, politician ignoring technical advice because they knew better! The buildings here have the worst architectural designs, I have ever seen -its to whom it may concern. Falling classrooms, the works ministry cant develop simple software to measure wind force, or water pressure if that is the problem, cement and sand mixture to offer free to contractors. The problem is deeper though, save for illuminating the impossibility of the modernisation of the Africa. The approximate total sum of all moneys that has gone to foreign companies to develop; a. NSSF b. Warehouse registry c. Bank of Uganda data system d. Driving Permits e. National Identity Card f. Public Service Commission Registry g. Local Government Computer System h. Financial Computerised system (planning ministry) i. Soldiers pay roll system (defence ministry) j. Land title registry k. Company registry l. Birth and death certificate registry m. Vehicle licensing registry (ura) n. Tax /revenue Registry (ura) o. Voters card registry As far as I have read, none of the above system is nationwide or for that matter services the country at large! It is an obscene sum if you can imagine it developing software using foreign entities. Really, developing countries are very interesting but so-called politicians are more than a disaster. Modernisation is a song, for no one in government sees a need to stop the country from financial haemorrhage. And very few Ugandans if any, have been involved in practical development of above software system and basic infrastructure. Now, how do you maintain and later run a software on a national level, you never development and is not synchronised with various crucial departments? Ugandans have been ferried around the world to go and acquire different competences in maintaining and running different software. The above task will squarely lie with Uganda Computer services and Makerere University Institute of Computer sciences. Makerere I hear is a government funded higher education institution. Take an example of Tax/revenue, Business registry and National Identify Card/Driving permit May be those registry will have been synchronised are they and we know they are not! Take land titles and ground rents registry those registers will be reconciled but we know they are not. The same goes with road licensing of vehicle and physically registering vehicles these registers will be run along tax databases. We know that might not be the case as recent Interpol stolen car cases revealed. To me if Kampala is a slum and politicians feel well about it, and that Uganda since independence has never developed a single town centre, is no longer a strange phenomenon they are Africans. Bwanika. Bwanika ________ http://www.idrconsulting.com --> for your consultancy needs _______________________________________________ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
