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

[Brainiac]

1: Ill jump into this albeit late and begin with a reference to a scriptural
parable of the talents in Matthew 25. The moral being that to whom much is
given, much is expected and the converse being true. as a rhetorical
question (you can answer if you like), have you made maximum use of the two
talents you were given to deserve three in round two.

2: It is indeed a positive thing that you would even consider a Ndemo Tosha
because in the bigger picture of things, it would be a definate improvement
from the status quo. I like that you have Ideas and visions about what can
be needed to solve what, ICT indeed might be the holy grail in improving
process and equalizing a lot of the bumps that are exploited by uncreative
Kenyans for profit.

3: Onto my questions: Between Agriculture, ICT, Infrastructure and
Manufacturing, how would you allocate say theoretically a 1trillion budget
(just for these) and what would be the justification for leaning to which.
The devil would be in the details but a rough estimate would show direction.


4: Mention something about a) somalia, b) Southern sudan, c) EPAs and d)
Kyoto viz a viz cheap energy.

cheers...

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 11:31 AM, aki <aki275 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you Dr Ndemo for the comments.
>
> I'd also like to add that govt policies and programs are the initial
> catalyst drive because the private sector is what it is i.e. does not fund
> research or development ( not in Kenya ). And for many decades economic
> policies have placed favour over import versus local development, we are at
> a stage today that it would probably takes us another 40-50 years to even
> design/produce the simplest semi-conductor available on the market today.
> The same design can be done at University levels in other countries. We are
> really at a tough place because if we don't fast track with imports, we will
> get left behind. And if we don't implement long term ways towards core
> development, we are bound to become literally a "sales,marketing
> and consultants" country which only has very short term benefits. Today, we
> give the chance to external partners to help with technology needs and
> systems, yet we are capable of creating or building upon these given the
> correct environment. It will be our biggest loss in future if we do not
> change course and take on the internal development segment with force and
> commitment. Just as the US identified itself as a major defense exporter
> economy thereby creating most of the advance systems-engineers-mulit-million
> dollar industries--highly educated employment, I think we also need to
> define what we want to do and how to get there.
>
> Starting at Sciences is really good, but would you kindly add what esle
> would be the catalysts towards creating and sustaining internal development?
>
> Thank you.
>
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> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:43 AM, <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:
>
>> Aki,
>> You now can understand why we need to stop business and general degree
>> programmes.  This is why we are more of traders than industrialists. I
>> went to US for studies in the 1980's.  In 1987 I was President of
>> International Students at the University of Minnesota.  We were 5,000
>> foreign students in a student population of 120,000. The majority of
>> students were from Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore and Korea.  Of the Asian
>> students, 98% were in engineering courses the remaider were in creative
>> art degree program.
>>
>> These countries became what we call Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs).
>> In economic comparative terms, they were behind Kenya.  Today we buy
>> everything from them.  They manufactured nothing then.  Infact we used to
>> love at the Hyundai Ponny that was first manufactured by Koreans.
>>
>> We now must remove all fees for any student enrolled in science and
>> creative degree programs.  The rest can pay.  When we started producing
>> more computer graduates, we started seeing application development in
>> Kenya to the extent that the world has started to recognize.  Similarly,
>> if we indeed want to industrialize, we must move to science.  There are no
>> options.
>>
>> India has just realized this and they are taking jobs from overheating
>> China.  Our comparative advatange in this region is the human resource.
>> Let us develop it, support it and guide it to the right direction.
>> Regional influence is what will matter in the days to come. As such we
>> must endeavor to see that Vision 2030 is realized in 2020.  This is
>> possible.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>> Ndemo.
>>
>>
>>
>
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