The non-profit works in Africa and is all about using local resources when at all possible. They knew some people that worked with a group out of Nairobi that talked a good game and they liked the people they met and the non-profit folks are NOT technical, they jumped on it. It's a classic story really--I've been on this side of the table many times before with outsourced work.

If they had brought me in before hand I could have saved them a lot of work by asking the hard questions and reigning in the tech overspend.

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arcfour 5 days ago | parent [-]

"We don't know a lot about this, what could go wrong?!" Sigh...

	▲	a2tech 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They're sweet well meaning people. They're very familiar with the realities of working in Africa, but they always assume people will try and do the right thing at the end of the day.
	▲	BobaFloutist 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		"We don't know a lot about this, let's hire some experts to handle it for us"