[kictanet] Fibre Optic Cables

[Eric Osiakwan]

Bwana PS,

While i agree with you that government must facilitate the small  
enterprises, i think we must also stretch our government efforts to  
grow our established enterprises to become regional and  
multinationals. For example, government should challenge such  
enterprises with "big government project" which would stretch them to  
expand or join forces in consolidation etc.

Generally, we know that SMEs grow economies but in the globalised  
era, multinational corporations have become "an extenstion of the  
state" and so we must work towards enlarging our coast in that  
direction and playing in that space. I see some Kenya businesses that  
are at that point and we must move in on them.

Eric here


On 12 Feb 2008, at 17:36, bitange at jambo.co.ke wrote:

> We are working towards that.  We need private sector to push these  
> developments.  Government is not good in business.  We can only  
> intervene to facilitate especially the small enterprises.
>
> Ndemo
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Eric Osiakwan" <eric at afrispa.org>
>
> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:22:38
> To:bitange at jambo.co.ke
> Cc:KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Fibre Optic Cables
>
>
> Nothing against all the big guns establishing in Kenya but what  
> about a long term objective
> of building our own version of Akamai,googles, Limelights etc.
>
> Dont forget the real winners in the knowledge era are those who  
> produce their own not use
> others. So our long term objective should be to have our own  
> alongside others because it is
> a free market economy.
>
> Eric here
>
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: Michuki Mwangi <michuki at swiftkenya.com>
> Reply-To: michuki at swiftkenya.com
> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:14:04 +0300
>
>>
>>
>> bitange at jambo.co.ke wrote:
>>> Good news is that Etisalat (our partners in Teams) in conjunction  
>>> with
>>> Akamai are building an Internet Point of Presence (POP) in  
>>> Fujaira thus
>>> eliminating long distance needs for Internet in this region.
>>
>> The long term objective should be to have the likes of Akamai,  
>> Limelight
>> and google collocating their nodes in Kenya. This will essentially  
>> keep
>> at least 50% of our Internet traffic local.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Michuki.
>>
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