Public Software Procurement Workshop in Kenya
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Submitted by ago on 8. September 2008 - 12:42.
The Linux Professional Association of Kenya (LPA Kenya) conducted a forward-looking workshop on "Accelerating Achievement of Vision 2030 through Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)" on 5 September 2008 in Nairobi. About 20 participants, both Kenyan FOSS advocates and government officers, discussed issues of government software procurement. Apart from presenting his research on government spending on software to the Public Procurement Oversight Authority, Alex Gakuru also introduced participants to the ict@innovation programme.
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They have done a great job by conducting a forward-looking workshop on "Accelerating Achievement of Vision 2030 through Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)". Their is a extensively expressed anxiety that the current means of acquiring large, complex, bespoke software-based systems is unacceptable because the systems never completely meet up the necessities of the users when they come on stream, and possibly never can. Improving these circumstances has implications for both the methodological and the commercial aspects of software procurement. A helpful approach to meeting the challenge would be the establishment of guidelines, which would assist those responsible for the supply, and procurement of software.
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