Yes, Gentlemen & Ladies. One of the interesting things that I learnt from the kictanet thread is that the govt is circled with brokers waiting as vultures to pounce on any govt projects. The same way that area chief's ( locals ) made colonialism successful through selling out freedom fighters and their locations, these brokers/vendors don't give a damn about the long terms effects on the economy. For them its about being in a position to supply a vendor product that meets the specs of the project and become successful enterprenuers. The rest of kenyans in the dev sector can go and jump off a bridge, for all they care.

Now, we have a great chance to do something about this and such times make me regret I wish I had enough time to have completed my programming study so as to be able to approach any commercial projects. However, all is not lost and I share this idea with you. Whether you are on open source or even proprietory, good at programming and creating systems as those required in the e-Health project, no matter what platform used and as long as the core engine is done locally whether to run on IBM servers etc, we are on the first steps towards building on e-Govt projects and to prove that all the bulloks of shoody contractors is just talk to avoid local development. Do you mean all the innovators at iHub ( upto 3000 of them ) are shoddy?!

iHub has an army of talent, and so do other software developer companies. Is it possible to treat this e-Health system as a joint project? I saw the vendor participation fees as $4500, pretty steep for most local dev companies so am thinking of ways of how we can raise this amount so that the joint venture can present its local version of the system with all the bells and whistles.

If anyone has the specs of the e-Health proposal or vision that has been laid out under govt/foreign, it would help to know. What we know for sure is that such a system should have SMS involved somewhere, web portals, security access and mobility.