Mymoena, Congratulations on the progress of your project. I am glad to see that ICT is really hitting home. Citywide ERP Solution? Wow! When I hear about corruption in Africa and other developing countries, I usually wonder how a country like the United States or UK would have been in the absences of the checks and balances from technology/electronic systems, yet dealing with the current 21st Century (SMART and sophisticated) human beings within the society. With that in mind, I'm really curious as to what the reaction of some of the politicians and local government leaders (including local elders) would be. Do they feel violated, disarmed or even colonized by these electronic systems?
Mymoena, is it possible to share some of the real time social and political related implementation issues that you are encountering in this project. (I mean, let's assume that we are holding the technical/infrastructural issues constant for a moment, because there are myriads of them.) Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Molly Egondu Uzoh Learning Right Technologies P. O. Box 51616 San Jose, CA 95151 Phone: (408) 531-1967 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At www.learningright.com we respect your right2learn the right thing, the right way; and at the right place, the right time and the right price. On Friday, May 27, 2005, Mymoena Ismail wrote: > Not all local authorities work on a cash basis. In South African > legislation (i.e., the Municipal Financial Management Act) requires > local authorities to account for every cent spent and income received. > The City of Cape Town recently implemented a SAP ERP solution to better > manage its finances but also to ensure that there exists one back-end > system to support all related e-governance projects. ------------ This DOT-COM Discussion is funded by the dot-ORG USAID Cooperative Agreement, and hosted by GKD. http://www.dot-com-alliance.org provides more information. To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd For past messages, see: http://www.dot-com-alliance.org/archive.html