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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I blame the media anybody gets up calling himself IT expert and u give him audience.
Elikem the so call IT expert should know that coding in software development is just a fraction of the entire process. For him to say a software can be developed and coded in a day shows how ***barred word*** he is about software development life cycle.its only in Ghana people give themselves big titles yet know nothing about the field in which they even studied. Elikem please go back and check on software develpment and see how long it takes if you have forgotten your notes. i rest my case
They said it is 419 and when their ignorance was exposed, they are now gradually shifting the goal post. What are they saying now? that it is lazy because it took 8 months to develop? Where was this so called IT expert when the bids were opened? Give us a break NDC. we are tired of you and your rantings.
Every Tom & ***barred word*** is calling himself IT Expert or IT Researcher. Elikem must present his CV for interrogation. True Experts just express their views without calling governments names. If this can be done in a day then why didn't your 'hardworking' NDC government contract you to execute it in a day?
Look at this ewe man trying to cause attention to build his political Career inNDC
WHERE WERE YOU ALL THIS WHILE? FOR EIGHT YEARS YOU NEVER POPPED UP TO SHOW YOUR IT SKILLS. STOP YOUR POST-MO TERM ANALYSIS. THE LAZY PEOPLE ARE BETTER THAN THE INCOMPETENT PEOPLE
which IT expert? best description; an NDC die-hard calling a government of Nana Addo and Bawuama lazy - wonders they say will never end. Compare this gov't with the previous - which is lazy? For 8years, no innovative ideas, new policies, nothing, just waste of time and tax payers money. Sit back and but support as Ghana begins to work again!!!