Stardust Land Management Programme Can Be Exported :: Mmegi Online

It is not every day that Botswana celebrates an achievement in the area of homegrown ICT innovation. To learn that a web based computer programme used today to manage land allocation and land ownership in Botswana by landboards and the parent ministry is a product of homegrown talent is indeed a cause to celebrate.

It is quite interesting yet again to learn that the genius behind the computer programme actually produced it for free for his beloved government. He needs to be saluted for such a patriotic spirit.

One may argue that the computer genius as an employee of the Kgatleng Landboard was duty bound to deliver the stardust programme; but he could still have used the precious time and resources within government to develop his programme and then patent it for himself and become an instant billionaire with a land management programme that could be the answer to all land management problems in Africa. While some may dismiss the developer as someone who let the opportunity to get rich slip off his hands, he deserves to be recognised as the passionate patriot who may have saved Botswana millions of Pula by creating a smooth running software.

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