[kictanet] Tandaa - An Honest Analysis

[Joseph Manthi]

Robert
I did not attend but I know exactly what you are saying.

Local is golden, foreign should be forgotten unless we want to remain where
we are.

Joe

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Robert Alai <alai.robert at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mirembe
>
> I have a very open and honest analysis of our Tandaa conference.
>
> The facts which we must change is that Paul Kukubo, my big brother still
> sees it best to defend foreign companies and say that "eve if we want local
> content we must stilldo it with foreigners'. Let me tell you a thing. We
> must focus on local mpaka it becomes music. When I saw the slides of Joe
> Mucheru, which apparently I have seen in every conference I have attended in
> which he is the speaker. The websites listed there, non were Kenyan. The
> fact that Mucheru works for a Carlifornian company and he is Kenyan should
> make Mucheru sell Kenya more. If you wanted a subscription website, you
> should have started with kenyalaw.org. If you wanted affiliates,
> mamamikes.com has affiliates. Lets focus on local. Lets give it lots of
> thought. We must give local examples and then mention the foreign ones just
> as an after-thought.
>
> We want the companies to give the local content much thought and they can
> only do that when they think locally. When you make people believe that
> facebook is great, we wont head anywhere. See why Tanzanians are engaging
> more in bongo5.com and jamiiforums than facebook and others. They are
> actively loading pics and content and these two websites are really coming
> up well and considreing the age of the websites, we will see nice things
> from them. We should not glorify anything western. We must start
> appreciating our own facebook like Ngari has developed a good site,
> www.kasarani.com
>
> When I started my start forum and blogging thing, jamiiforums.com<http://jamboforums.com/>,
> we had lots of problems. But we also had people telling us that the forum
> which is being run by my great friend Maxence, was going nowhere because
> Tanzanians don't speak a lot of English. See the site now. I don't think
> that there is any forum in this region with that kind of killer traffic.
> There is no forum in this region which makes the government shakes like hell
> when issues are being analyzed there. And they are doing it most of the time
> in Swahili. We must focus on being local if we want local content.
>
> NMG bought a script from Germans and installed it on their site without a
> forum nor blogs for the senior writers. Why? No creativity. NTV, EasyFm and
> QFM are not online. A very good percentage of articles in Mailbox are
> plagiarized from blogs and forums without acknowledgement and articles in
> entertainment and lifestyle mazagines are plagiarized from magazines like
> cosmopolitan and Elle sometimes word for word.
>
> The Tandaa website was .com and not .co.ke. Even if you are not hosting
> locally, you could still have had a local domain registration.
>
> The funniest thing I got from the conference, why would 6 or 7 speakers
> speak for 15 minutes each and then  the forum audience is given 10 minutes
> to ask questions and suggestions? Do you know that the slides from Capital,
> NMG, Google, Homeboyz, Kictanet, ICT board, Strathmore, Rich, Cisco and
> others are shown to us almost in every conference we attend. They have
> become so predictable that the best place to get more stories and even
> slides which you have never seen is from the public. Givingg 15 minutes to
> each speaker which is 105 minutes for the seven speakers then the audience
> asks and get replies in 10 minutes is really not correct and shows and
> attitude of escapism where te audience are feared that they might embarass
> the speakers with questions.
>
> The other facts of the conference was ok. The moderator, Al Kags, was ok
> but I think that we can do alot of improvements by having power cable well
> spread for bloggers and also the Wi-Fi to be abit superior. I had to rely on
> my Zain unlimited since the ICT board Wi-fi kept shutting down.
>
> We also think that we can have an active network and the best place to
> start is now here in KICTANET. I see us turning KICTANET into an open
> vbulletin run forum with CMS managed frontpage like www.haitiwebs.com and
> www.mustangevolution.com. Vbulletin is so superior and it wont take us
> even a day to have this thing up and running.
>
> Senior members, what do you think?
>
> Alai,
>
>
>
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