An IT researcher, Kingsley Komla Elikem, has raised concerns about the cost and quality of the newly introduced digital property addressing system; the GhanaPost GPS App, while referring to the government as ‘lazy’.
The National Digital Property Address System was launched about a month ago to facilitate easy location of addresses and to boost emergency service delivery nationwide.
Many, following the introduction of the app have criticized government over monies being channeled into the operation of the app as well as its effectiveness as projected. Most of them accusing government of ‘duplicating’ an already existing app.
Vokacom, the company that designed the app has however come out to reject the claims, their justification being that it was built on a global addressing system that was designed solely by them.
Mr. Elikem argues that the eight-month period used to design the app was lethargic. According to him, it requires a maximum of just a day to produce the Ghana Post GPS app.
Kingsley, who did not want to sound politically biased, defended his statement, saying “it is not a government matter. We all have political affiliations in Ghana by the way.”
“But if you tell me that it took a government eight months to code…to write these codes that anyone can do in one day, you are a lazy government.”
Explaining the “one day” app design to journalists at the Ghana International Press Centre, the IT professional said:
“That was just a poor work. You sit down behind the computer, you write your codes, throw a fish net over the surface of Ghana, make sure that you use the cursor to pick the ends carefully…While you are done you give a dimension to the fish net. It should be five by five meters and you would be able to generate this. One day. Eight months to do this work? That’s a lazy government.”
Source: Ghanaweb.com
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So Mr Kingsley Komla Elikem knowing our problems with Property addressing, why did you not give us the one day solution all this while? Never mind there are problems with Garbage Management, please implement a one day solution
Professionals talk their profession. Period. This talk smells NDC all over the place. You did yourself harm, my brother!
***barred word*** and Cheap Talk....NONESENSE..
I.T WHAT..IF U CAN DO IT IN 3 SECONDS KORAAA..NOBODY WILL HIRE U..GERROUT
"Elikem" should not hide his NDC identity. Afraid-man! Nation saboteurs!
Have followed this guy and he is an NDC activist based abroad. Why did he not help his NDC do same in his so called " a day" when they were in power for 8 years? Talk is cheap indeed
Talk is cheap: The trade mark of NDC.
I have been calling for his profile and nobody seems to have it. I want to know his IT background. Does he know about SDLC? Systems Development Life Cycle? The coding aspect alone will take several weeks. Did he expect them to write the code on Microsoft suite--Excel, Word, Powerpoint,etc? The hardware had to be purchased, the Server, and the rest had to be purchased.Someone, furnish me with this so-called IT researcher's background in IT.
Is it when non-IT person speaks to so called IT person that one become expert or when he is proven expert?? Being ewe doesnt mean hate everything abt NPP... This attitude dey bore!!!!! big time... Wey kind life this Your fathers do aaa dey no get anything better, only greed and hatred they can be known for. You too and any yound ewe's dey tuaso aaaba
Too many educated illiterates in the system. It could be done in 1 day at 100ghc. How many times must it be explained that the cost involved is not only about an app, which is the front function we all see. What about the public education, the database and all the related documentation and archiving to be done? Until this system was launched, I did not hear any of you people making these noises. Just ***barred word*** and lets develop a country