[kictanet] Entrepreneurship!! -ICT4D belated comments.

[John Walubengo]

Thanx Magana for your belated but welcomed comments. I feel obliged to share them on the list otherwise some members will imagine i cooked the comments when they see them reflected in the final report...

walu.


--- On Thu, 6/5/08, Owino Magana <magana at e-kazi.com> wrote:

> From: Owino Magana <magana at e-kazi.com>
> Subject: Entrepreneurship!!
> To: "jwalu" <jwalu at yahoo.com>
> Date: Thursday, June 5, 2008, 10:03 AM
> Hi Walu,
> 
> Sorry for submitting my thoughts after your deadline. As I
> mentioned yesterday, my I was travelling the bundus and the
> GPRS on my handheld device walked out on me!! Perhaps
> another case for fibre and wireless options for the last
> mile.
> 
> My thoughts:
> 
> The issue of low ICT uptake/resistance in the public
> service (mentionned by Dr. Ndemo) and perhaps applicable to
> initiatives such as the digital villages programme can be
> addressed in part through the Mike Eldon proposed:
> 
> 1. Sensitization of public service leadership
> 
> 2. Alignment of ICT strategy to organizational strategy
> 
> 3. Training of target users in various ICT applications
> 
> However, I see a strong case for traveling the extra mile
> to the province
> 
> of entrepreneurship and providing:
> 
> A) empowerment of target groups via practical business
> management skills focusing entrepreneurship
> 
> (job and wealth creation, incubation) Indeed, there may be
> a case for educational reform to enable fusion of the same
> into our primary, secondary school and tertiary learning
> curricula.
> 
> B) training on project management: how to translate
> strategy into results through structured implementation.
> Again, this needs to be emphasised in our educational
> system. 
> 
> All is not lost, even now, as the skills are practical and
> can be taught with reasonable effectiveness to those
> already employed.
> 
> Bottom line: there will be no uptake without incentive.
> Money making Self employment options
> 
> provide such. This is more so if the people are empowered
> to make the things they plan (hence their dream) come true!
> 
> Sustainability (much loved by civil society and others) is,
> in my view, an  entrepreneurial not technology, issue.
> 
>
> 
> Shalom
> 
> O-M
> 
> Owino Magana
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