[kictanet] Bitange for President? Driving Knowledge Economy? OnlineInterview with PS Ndemo

Thu Aug 4 08:05:16 EAT 2011

Bwana Ndemo,

My question still stands (content is another issue) - what will be helpful is if you can explain further the implications of signal distribution being handled by a foreigner. Please give your response to a "greenhorn" audeince.

Edith
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Edith Ofwona Adera
Senior Program Specialist
Climate Change & Water Program
International Development Research Centre | Centre de recherches pour le développement international
Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa
Tel: +254202713160 | Fax/Téléc: +254202711063 | Skype: edithadera
eadera at idrc.or.ke | www.idrc.ca | www.crdi.ca
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From: bitange at jambo.co.ke [bitange at jambo.co.ke]
Sent: 04 August 2011 07:54
To: Edith Adera
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Subject: RE: [kictanet] Bitange for President? Driving Knowledge Economy?      OnlineInterview with PS Ndemo

Edith,
I did not ignore your questions.  If I were you I would have asked them
differently.  We have not reversed any of the decisions and if we did we
shall be sued.  The process was fair.  In consideration of the investment
made by Media Owners, we shall on a an affirmative action give the third
license to the Media Owners.  This is a signal distribution license.

You should have asked if we have given a broadcast or content distribution
license.  The answer is no.  This is a more important question and the
only people who have understood this are foreign media.  Yesterday I had
an interview with a New York Times reporter and where he focused questions
was on content and how we China's influence in the region.  If we keep on
asking wrong questions, we shall provide wrong answers that do not secure
our future interests.  You realize that the big multinational broadcasters
such as BBC and CNN are not interested in infrastructure like Chinese but
they are coming as content providers.  I hope we do not fight that they
are exerting influence.

This is why I will want to focus our energies in creating regional
influence through ICT.  Egypt has been trying this by paying for African
countries to attend their events.  Unfortunately, their strategy is not
complete.  Often when we go there on paid trips we end up visiting the
pyramids.  They still cannot articulate what to do with Africa.  You will
think that as they go through the crisis this spending will stop.  No. On
my desk still I have an invitation for September 4th.  Rwanda too tried to
exert the influence but they lacked resources to a sustained engagement.

Let us utilize our highly educated unemployed youth for positive regional
change through content creation.  We have enough business and art
graduates. lets move with a purpose.

One Kenya.  Keep hope alive.

Ndemo.

> Bwana Ndemo,
>
> For innovation and "thinking without the box" (new phrase)...we give that
> to you. You have shown "you have the spine" to do things differently and
> defy the norm.
>
> I recall a visit we made with you to CFSK (Computer's for Schools Kenya)
> to get a deeper understanding of how refurbishment of computers was being
> done by young innovators. You challenged the young girls and boys to turn
> the computer monitors (they had planned to ship back to China and
> elsewhere for metal extraction) into colored TVs! I thought to myself,
> wow, what a dream!....the next visit I made to CFSK four months later,
> they had indeed turned those monitor's into colored TVs and were selling
> them at Ksh 4,000 a piece. From then on I tell people that when Bwana
> Ndemo gives ideas, I listen very keenly.
>
> Presidential candidates are put to the test in all areas. A question I
> have for you is to explain (wasi wasi) the recent discussion on China
> taking over digital signal distribution in Kenya - what became of that
> debate? has the decision been reversed?
>
> Edith
>
> ________________
> Edith Ofwona Adera
> Senior Program Specialist
> Climate Change & Water Program
> International Development Research Centre | Centre de recherches pour le
> développement international
> Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa
> Tel: +254202713160 | Fax/Téléc: +254202711063 | Skype: edithadera
> eadera at idrc.or.ke | www.idrc.ca | www.crdi.ca
> ________________________________________
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> bitange at jambo.co.ke [bitange at jambo.co.ke]
> Sent: 03 August 2011 05:27
> To: Edith Adera
> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Bitange for President? Driving Knowledge Economy?
>      OnlineInterview with PS Ndemo
>
> In summary,
> Again hypothetically my major themes shall be:
> Kwowledge for life
> Infrastructure for Development
> Food security (including Value addition)
> Employment (create tons of it)
>
> One Kenya.  Unity in diversity.  Keep hope a live (borrowed from Rev.
> Jesse Jackson).
>
> Ndemo.
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