In this age of technology and with the current constitutional provisions on access to information in the public interest, what is the procedure for requesting for financial accounts of the Kenya ICT board? Or is it a private company? Im guessing this would clear issues as serious as those indicated by ndungu.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 8:31 PM, ndungu stephen <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ndungustephen@gmail.com">ndungustephen@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">The rabbit-hole is bigger than you think ;; the &#39;fund&#39; was supposed to be in millions of dollars from what I saw before it came into effect.</span><br style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">

<br style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">The Kenyan way is - lets get 320 million USD (not KSH) for ICT reforms  - then ....</span><br style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">

<br style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">1. 2/8 of that money goes into you knows who and other high top gova &#39;processes<br>

2. 2/8 goes into building infrastructure<br style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"></span><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">3. 3/8 of that money - salaries, operational expenses, allowances (hardship and otherwise)</span><br style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">

<br style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">and finally</span><br style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">

<br style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">4. 1/8 goes into 10 projects - awarded &#39;grants&#39; to develop. Seriously, because giving 100k for some developers is nothing compared to the original fund.</span><br style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">

<br style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">In my opinion, I really dont think Paul is the perpetrator here- he may be the PR guy, managing the third fund, to keep the IT scene happy that something in ICT is happening. </span><br style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">

<br style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">The chain of all these events goes higher ! And its higher than the PS too.</span><br style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">

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