Hi Shelly, Sruti,
At 11:24 17-05-2015, Shelly Hermia Bhujun wrote:
>I would like to know how much money was spent
>for designing the Government websites.
The cost to design gov.mu was Rs 9,818,964 and
the cost of training was Rs 960,000.
>Maybe they did but the organizing committee
>didn't take their feedbacks and suggestions
>seriously. You never know! I read some of the
>response we got after expressing our views on
>topics and apparently what they want is for us
>to shut up. Maybe that's the culture they want
>to establish in our country but to be sincere i
>think its a pity to think like that. They create
>shameful websites and organize such events to
>bring the Mauritian level down. They have the
>audacity to expect free consultancy from
>Mauritians but pay foreign experts for advice?
I do not view this as being about "they" and
"us". Did anyone provide feedback? Was the
feedback public? Are Mauritians expected to do
the work for free while the experts will be paid
to write a report about that? This reminds of a
discussion during a conference where someone
asked: "what is the solution?" Someone on this
mailing list replied that: "it is not our job to provide free solutions".
>I think everything is connected. They want to
>promote Mauritius as a smart Island, they want
>to produce great leaders and people with great
>skills but they don't trust the citizens when they express their opinion.
Do you expect people to be creative if you tell the people to shut up?
>Whats the use of organizing an event just to
>showoff that they have money and can contact
>companies etc? Why don't they use that money for
>better investment?! There are so many talented Mauritians!
According to the Chairman of the NCB [1]: "la
connexion dans les foyers est de 40 % et les PC y
sont présents à 45 %. Et les 60 %, les 55 %
restants ? Ainsi, Infotech a pour mission de
combler les 60 % et 55 % restants ". And "À vrai
dire, ce salon a de multiples objectifs. Par
exemple, il permet de promouvoir les talents, les
expertises et le savoir-faire locaux, de
sensibiliser les entreprises sur les applications
et les solutions les mieux adaptées à leur
situation, d’offrir une plate-forme de rencontre
qui permettra aux opérateurs locaux dans ce
domaine de tisser des liens dits B 2 B et aussi
de faciliter les échanges commerciaux".
At 12:18 17-05-2015, Sruti Jughdharree wrote:
>I'd like to point out that the exhibition is the
>same every year. And I have noticed that the
>number of people visiting the Infotech is also decreasing.
It is not worth going to an event to see the same thing every year.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
1.
http://www.businessmag.mu/article/infotech-2013-vers-un-smart-mauritius
Received on Sun May 17 2015 - 20:06:33 PST