Somalia's portal on aid flow transparency a failure after only 17 days

[SomaliMVP]

A little bit of context on why this is important:

Somalia has launched a portal to publicize information on how donor money is utilized in a bid to raise the transparency in the eyes of the public and the international community.
Managed by the Ministry of Planning, Investment, and Economic Development, the platform known as Aid Information Management System (AIMS) launched this week is the country’s first attempt in three decades to aggregate information on donor contributions and where the money has been going.
Somalia’s Planning Minister Gamal Hassan said the portal at http://aims.mop.gov.so/ will help provide more accurate data on sectors that have benefitted more from donor funding, as well as indicate whether the money has been used effectively.

Partners and donors were invited to use the portal so they could see where their donated funds went and how it was spent. Naturally, I signed up because I wanted to see how the government is going to "mismanage" the aid it receives. It thought that it would be interesting to see how the aid is divided across the country. Yesterday, after only 17 days since launch the portal suffered a data breach. E-mails from its users (partners and donors) were leaked. Even the e-mail of the minister and his staff were on that list.

So you must be thinking: who was on that list?

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I am deeply disappointed. Leaking the e-mails of your partners and donors who donate large amounts of money shows a level of incompetency that harms our chance of receiving more donor contributions. Contributions that save lives when managed correctly. Personally I think that the Ministry of Planning, Investment, and Economic Development Gamal Hassan should be fired. That man can't even manage the website of his own Ministry. The website has not been updated since March 2019. Updated government websites are not common in this government. It is a cheap and easy way to provide information to its citizens. It is shameful how the online presence of this administration and those before it has been. Things need to change so that shit like this never happens again.

 

[Farm]

Not surprised. Most of us already know how incompetent this government is.

 

[Awdalia Rising]

You would think after 30 years Somalis would be tired of being failed state and finally get our stuff together but then you realize today’s leaders are the children of the failed generation who led (and failed) from the 60s-90s. Or the children of the spoilers the clan warriors. Their children are now repeating the same failures of their parents since early 2000s until now