my point ... perhaps the ICT board should push the serikali to only award locally developed concepts and programs... and this demand creation will snowball, even better sponsor the best pool again and let them learn from those mother companies and hence we develop our own resources.... i bet the annals of history will tell that's exactly what china did....

I agree with this, but we can't just start giving local developers preference because, SOME local developers have a tendency to do software that is 100% pure crap.

To filter the idiot programmers from those who know what they are doing, we need standards. So that for any software to be considered for purchase by the government, it must have been developed under and meet certain standards.