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A Review of Broadband Coming by Lionel Bernard This book reads like a horror movie, for those of us from Liberia. We have seen it, and we know when we hear the music something bad is going to happen. We keep yelling at the screen and saying dont go there! oh but the actors curiosity, determination in this case, always get the better and....something bad happens. What is shockingly tragic, is that while these three were making every effort to bring broadband to Liberia, other technology professionals, myself included, were also pushing the government, at all levels to establish short, medium, and long term goals for the ICT in Liberia. In March of 2006 I sat across from the new President, in the Mansion, and gave her a 15 point memo about the need to establish information technology as the foundation for her government. I said pointedly, it is greater than any other thing you can think of. I also said to her the government should immediately move away from hotmail, yahoo and other free email services. If the government cited NATIONAL SECURITY as the reason for maintaining control of LIBTELCO, the fact that they have not used the infrastructure built at LIBTELCO to provide the very services which would secure government computing and communications, including email. The government actors we dealt with are the same. A B Johnson, Morris Dukuly, Harry Greaves (IFMIS / GEMAP), amongst others. I also brought it to the attention of Amara Konneh, when he was Deputy Min. for Presidential Affairs that the STATUTORY framework for establishing an Office of Technology and Policy already existed in the Liberia Executive Law, which established the Bureau of Data Processing (under GSA), as being responsible for ALL DATA Systems within the government of Liberia, and as such the Director of the Bureau IS the Chief Information Officer of the Government. When we read this book, and think none of this makes sense, we must remember in dystopia it does make all the sense in the world. People profit, and profit greatly where misfunction, malfunction, unaccountability exist; this is dystopia. In Short, this book is a lesson on how all well intentioned efforts in Liberia, are overwhelmed by crocrogee!
Posted on: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 23:47:56 +0000

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