Details have emerged revealing how Botswana’s ambitious P500 million e-government project was fumbled into a whole gamut of failures, from the inconvenient and the costly to the disastrous.
The Auditor General’s assessment of the country’s misbegotten attempt to develop what would have been the biggest gov-tech project ever, has revealed a series of embarrassing project management and oversight failures which resulted in the project being delayed by close to a decade and delivering very few benefits at huge risk and cost to citizens, before finally being stalled.
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