Ngare, I wasn't giving too much credit to Kenyaweb.com on developing government websites. The reason as to Why I said so is that there was a time I had gone to Kenyaweb to lodge a complaint and they me that they do a lot of gov websites, I did acknowledge that when I checked a few of gov sites. This, however, does not meand that there are no other players who are giving Kenyaweb.com a sound competition, unless they 'won a 5 year tender to develop and host government websites!'
It is better to give praise where it is worth!
I guess Jooomla is the most prefered open source system which has enough quality to support the contents in the gov sites.
Mburu
Solomon Mburu,
you give us (kenyaweb) way to much credit ('blushing') the truth is we have done a number of government sites no more than other sectors ad say about 8 or so (we have an odd forty something ministries) what we like about them is the potential functionality they possess over and above the subjective maridadi issues and of course the future impact they will have on citizens as the govt consolidates its technologies and moves more into online systs....al kags and paul kukubo if ictb, egov et al can tell you about the brilliant initatives they have...some are already functional....we take pride that we were apart of this.
On Joomla, well nothing beats a quality open source system that has a jet engine and says the starship enterprise probably has its warp engines running me! :-)
rgds
jack ngare
ps
no the sites under review were not done by us.
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Solomon Mburu <solo.mburu@gmail.com> wrote:Most of the govt websites are done by kenyaweb.com, who seem to have a
preference over JOOMLA. The govt's ICT guys should not be blamed if
the ISP is the problem. On restering skunkworks as a business unit, a
plan should already be in place... like yersterday morning!
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On 06/05/2009, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
> I move a motion to register Skunkworks KE as a business entity!
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Paul Mathu <mails.mathu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> The loopholes in all these display alot of laxity in implementing industry
>> standards in these projects. I like the way we point out the faults, damn
>> ain't we good at this!!!
>> This brings me to thinking, suppose we had a clearly cut out outfit, not a
>> group of techies virtually existing in a mail list but a legal body
>> reconised by law. We would be in a better position to put the people
>> involved on a spotlight and also the govt on different ICT policy.
>> No matter how long we will want to brush this under the carpet, it will
>> always show up, and i will quote another member on the list who said, even
>> if we won't do this, some techie will do it, they might not be the best to
>> do it, but they will.
>> So isn't time we quit loads of talk and wishful thinking and get down to
>> some action!!!
>> MHO
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>>
>> Mathu
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