Is it possible that if they hired less people, each with a PDA communicating with an online server via the mobile Telcos Internet (which cover alot of Kenya, especially the densely populated areas) then the data could be ready in days/weeks and even streamed live for Kenyans. That would have been great. The world would have been jazzed by Kenya. Even if it would have pushed the census to next year, it would have been well worth it. IT companies in other parts of the world would have been jazzed then they come here to have a look, then Ministry of ICT jazzes them with a few words here and there which leads to ...
The online server can have statistical inference software tools, conflict inference and resolution software tools (for duplicate counts). And I think guys who can build this can be found locally.
As for the Census itself: Some of the questions are peculiar: Owning Radio, TV, Mobile phone, Bicycle??? Won't this be outdated after 2 years when they might want to develop a 'plan' for our economy? Can't they get mobile phone statistics and computer statistics from the vendors, Telcos and ISPs?
This exercise would have been smoother if our gvnmt was completely open to kenyans, then kenyans would understand why the data is necessary, even guys would take the forms to CBS. Far much cheaper than 7B.
O_O --- On Wed, 8/26/09, Joram Mwinamo <joram.mwinamo@gmail.com> wrote:
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