Technology and Science Minister Felix Mutati has given the Government Service Bus committee a 10-day ultimatum to give a clear road map on how 120 government services will be put online.
Mr. Mutati says Government is in a hurry to ease access and application of the services for the public and other organizations.
He has also tasked the committee to devise ways that will address the prevailing high leakages of public funds because the Government has continued to lose money.
Mr. Mutati was speaking shortly after a familiarization tour of the Smart Zambia offices in Lusaka yesterday.
And Government Service Bus committee Deputy Technical Lead Macfallen Siame said the project improves efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of Government services once implemented.
Mr. Siame explained that implementation of the Government Service Bus will also help to fight corruption in Government offices.
Loser always riding other people’s horses.
10 day roadmap, followed by 10 months deliberation, followed by 10 years implementation, followed by determination that the technology is obsolete – yeah that sounds like a Zambian project alright
Oh and I forgot to mention that no funds were made available
Mutati making the right noise let’s push
from president to minister uhm
All Government websites built by Smart Zambia copy and paste using WordPress. Even then, they built one website and created copies just changing title and adding a few copy/ paste pages. Not a single one was custom made to a particular Ministry’s specification. Just google Government websites by ministry name and you see what I am saying. Now some of them are spitting revealing PHP errors and 404 page not found errors. They use pre-made templates and stillmess them up. the Payroll online portal is awful. It is full of all sorts of armature errors. How will this ‘elite’ Zambian IT team implement what Mutati is asking them to do? They will just get some open source app that seems close to requirements and unleash mayhem. Mu.ta.ti and all those they answer to will not know because in the…
… land of the blind, a one-eyed man became the chief.
From Jocker president to actual Minsiter, what an interesting upgrade.