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

[bitange at jambo.co.ke]

Aki,
Whereas by chance one of the aaplications developed here may become a global brand, we do not want to leave to chance.  That is why we are developing centers of excellency, standards and incubators to make sure we part of global standards.  There is much learning that we must go through.  The reason we should seek to collaborate while guarding our inventions.

As I write, we are working on a digital economy policy.  We shall come up with a specific legislation in this emerging sector.  Create special incentives that would propel it to greater levels.

We also must deal with Universities inorder to create the triple helix that has worked in many parts of the world.  Strathmore is leading in the right direction. We want to fully their patnership with Sumsang and Safaricom.  Through such arrangement we create capacities that lead to new other enterprises.

This is an area I have the greatest interest and would want to explore. I am using the annoying Blackberry so please allow me to respond more comprehensively when I get to a real keyboard.


Ndemo.




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-----Original Message-----
From: aki <aki275 at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 09:13:11 
To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Cc: <bitange at jambo.co.ke>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Bitange for President? Driving Knowledge
 Economy?OnlineInterview with PS Ndemo

Dr Ndemo,

I have a final question on regarding the creation of the High Tech Sector in
preparation for Malili. While cheaper rent or infrastructure facilities
maybe an additional advantage, I think we are still to find a way to push
private sector and govt incentives/policies on creating the High Tech
Sector. I believe we are no where at the moment, neither the mobile or web
development sectors even come close to becoming the next billion shilling
industry sectors. These two sectors are in a transition mode where the
demand is for more localised settings.

What will the govt do to ensure that kenyan companies start looking at
holding patents and developing the needs of external markets based on
technology trends. I think the last thing we would want to see is a scenario
where kenyans in ICT become more of daily wage labourers on contract basis.
While this may seem an ideal employment creation scenario, the results will
be negative in the long term.

What steps and incentives will create the High Tech Sector companies and
will opening up the development of critical govt sectors offer an incentive
to create broad based technologies?

Thank you.

Rgds.

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