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

Fri Aug 5 15:03:38 EAT 2011

Dakitari,

Pole on the passing on of your sister.

SMM

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:14 PM, <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:

> ** Muraya,
> I am still working with Blackberry at my sisters funeral that had an
> elaborate program with a start time and finish. But the MC may be having
> another program and as I write the finish time has come but the Pastor has
> not started. All manner of politicians have talked seeking help come next
> year but nothing to do with what brought us here. We shall never develop
> with this kind of irresponsibility.
>
> I say this because it is a reflection of your post. We all need change. We
> are frustrated not by colonialists but us. We must respect any
> responsibility that is given to us. Be it as small as being MC or a manager
> of public resources.
>
> We need to embrace a common value system. You cannot build any trust
> without a value system. With a new constitution we must figure out the
> values we put in the constitution. We must eternalize these values, respect
> every saul, feel guilty when you deviate from the common values.
>
> Foreiners are cautious about us. If we cannot trust one another how then
> can a foreigner trust us. We are a selfish people as often I see people talk
> ill of others simply because they come from another ethnic group. This is
> not Government. This is us. Let us not keep on asking for more policies when
> we know the underlying variables are stronger than any policy.
>
> We must one by one commit to work towards a common goal for a One Kenya.
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> Ndemo.
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry®
> ------------------------------
> *From: * "S.Murigi Muraya" <murigi.muraya at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Fri, 5 Aug 2011 13:22:48 +0300
> *To: *<bitange at jambo.co.ke>
> *Cc: *KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> *Subject: *Re: [kictanet] Bitange for President? Driving Knowledge
> Economy?OnlineInterview with PS Ndemo
>
> Dakitari,
>
> All well and good..
>
> Some interesting Public Administration concepts learned in some courses I
> once took..
>
> Policy = Decision making..
>
> Decision making.. Requires Information -- of which there is never enough to
> make a decision with 100% knowledge / accuracy of a situation.. the more
> information available, the better the policy / decision made / action taken
> to resolve a situation at hand..
>
> Also learned.. Information enables... Prioritization (part of decision
> making)... Sequence of services / social goods to provide to enable even
> more social services / goods..
>
> So good governance ALWAYS involves prioritizing Information Systems..
>
> Yesterday, a clearing agent told me that clearing goods has become less
> crooked due to Information Systems implemented by Serikali.. Not completely
> straight yet.. but much improved :-)
>
> How can we, the Private Sector, help ensure Internal / Intranets and Public
> / Websites are more current / updated  / sms codes for information work e.g.
> for passport information..?
>
> Our.. private firms.. are asking.. as techies often ask us when we ask them
> to learn / master some technical concepts.. for projects to turn theory into
> professional skills.
>
> How do you ensure that LOCAL firms can turn academic theory into
> professional / practical / certified skills without partnering them with
> FOREIGN firms winning our government projects?
>
> Did these FOREIGN firms, not become competent technical & financial giants
> by being awarded contracts by their own governments / which demanded
> excellence from them / also rejecting corruption in them..?
>
> How about public officers refusing to issue IT projects to firms that will
> not give them a "commission"..?
>
> How about  IT firms winning and messing up projects they won due to
> Political Connections not because they demonstrated Professional Skills
> Development?
>
> How about major software & hardware vendors who do not invest in local
> partners.. to keep them up to up to date on their technologies.. We do not
> seem to have Distributors who value or relate well to Indigenous Kenyans..
> then major software & hardware vendors wonder why IT Resellers and IT
> Managers are not buying their products as they should...and we wonder why
> they do not invest in local assembly or manufacturing.. providing us with
> even more technical know how..
>
> Earlier this Century (sounds like 100 years ago), a Kenyan at a
> Multinational Firm told me that Indigenous Kenyans do not invest as much as
> the Companies with major software and hardware distributorships / contracts
> in Kenya / EAC / COMESA...
>
> How do you deal with these situations?
>
> PS..
>
> Have heard PS Ndemo state that instead of demonizing Central Kenyans, some
> of their Business Ventures should be emulated by all Kenyans..
>
> Once heard a Kenyan Brit telling some Expatriates to never to look down on
> peasant looking Central Kenyan wazee.. he explained how liquid / wealthy
> some of them are.. and how much they could buy from / invest in ventures of
> those who did not look down on them... Am sure these kind of wazees / their
> clans / future companies / exist in every Kenyan county...
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:17 AM, <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:
>
>> Joseph,
>> About four years ago soon after I joined Government I called several of my
>> colleagues from Universities of Nairobi and JKUT. Purpose was to start
>> manufacturing a simple hand set just like Hyundai Ponny. I also embarked on
>> Madaraka PC which we later called e-mado. The idea was to put our country on
>> a learning curve. We set to assemble PC while research or reverse
>> engineering on the Mother Board and the chip went on at UON. JKUAT was to
>> work on the Power supply.
>>
>> Eventually we assenbled about 5,000 PCs from JKUAT, Nairobi and
>> Multimedia. I had secured funding from CCK and Safaricom. Later with Prof.
>> Kamau we embarked on the set top box. Then suddenly something died. My
>> appeal to the private sector to take up the project fell on deaf ears (see
>> why we need to change it). Sad you find many private sector selling the
>> finished goods. Nobody wants Kazi ya Mkono.
>>
>> Today we could be having a fully fledged semi conductor factory. Money has
>> never been a problem. It is us. We can do it but we must have the passion to
>> succeed. The will to grow our economy and the desire to felt throughout the
>> region.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>> Ndemo.
>>
>> Sent from my BlackBerry®
>> ------------------------------
>> *From: * joseph wafula <muliaro at yahoo.com>
>> *Date: *Thu, 4 Aug 2011 23:39:45 -0700 (PDT)
>> *To: *bitange at jambo.co.ke<bitange at jambo.co.ke>
>> *ReplyTo: * joseph wafula <muliaro at yahoo.com>
>> *Cc: *KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>> *Subject: *Re: [kictanet] Bitange for President? Driving Knowledge
>> Economy?OnlineInterview with PS Ndemo
>>
>> Listeners,
>>
>> PS Ndemo is provoking a healthy debate on key issues that we need to pay
>> attention to if Kenya is to accelerate in the right direction.
>>
>> Industrialization is key to economic development. China, Malysia and
>> Koreas of this world have demonstrated it. ICT is now identified as one of
>> the vibrant
>> industry in Kenya. Indeed it is, yet we have limited it to service sector.
>> My proposal is that we make delibarate effort to bring on board
>> Semiconductor industries
>> that manufacture SIM cards, Mobile Phones etc. this are light industries
>> that require small spaces and are not bulky. they are knowledge intensive.
>> we have the knowledge and skill to produce.  I trained in this area
>> at the Hitachi Microectronics Research Centre , University of Cambridge UK
>> with colligues from USA, Canada  and Greece. They all went into
>> establishment of Semiconductor industries that have promoted the economies
>> of their countries. why cant we do the same? there are enough engineers in
>> our country who can come together  and start up such industries with the
>> support of government. The environment is now in our favour. PS Ndemo,
>> please take up this idea. Lots of jobs and businesses can be created for our
>> people.
>>
>>
>> Muliaro
>>
>>
>>
>>   *From:* "bitange at jambo.co.ke" <bitange at jambo.co.ke>
>> *To:* muliaro at yahoo.com
>> *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>> *Sent:* Friday, August 5, 2011 6:07 AM
>> *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] Bitange for President? Driving Knowledge
>> Economy?OnlineInterview with PS Ndemo
>>
>> Listers,
>> I hoped someone will ask how to get housing to all other Kenyans after we
>> deal with Northern Kenya.  Let me explain.
>>
>> We have trillions in the cooporative movement managed by wazees that have
>> little education while the people who created the wealth languish in Jigger
>> invested huts.
>>
>> Those who come from coffee and tea growing areas know that billions are
>> being wasted and records are being destroyed. Actualy as I too is a victim
>> of this mismanagent.  While growing up we picked coffee and carried it on
>> our heads to processing factories.  The highest pay per KG I remember my
>> late mother got was Ksh. 1.  Much of the moner had been deducted for
>> investment.  Some of these investment are now prime properties which we have
>> no say in and I do not think we shall ever redeam the investment.
>>
>> First thing I will do is to deal with the cooperative act and bring
>> justice to the original investors.  Since most of them are not a live we
>> deal with successors of their estates.  The resource will then be used as
>> collateral to build  decent housing for Millions of Kenyans and and more
>> importantly those suffering under inhuman condition with jiggers yet they
>> played a key role in creating wealth.
>>
>> I will start an aggressive program of cottage industries with the aim of
>> bulding a wage economy.  This will make it easier for mortgage banks to lend
>> money for eco homes throughout. The country.  You must agree that to move
>> our people from the begging culture to mordern ways of living we need to
>> create structures that support such life.  It will force us to plan in
>> almost all aspects.  To plan to pay mortgage, to plan the number of children
>> etc.
>>
>> Then it will be easier to deploy fibre and other utilities to every home.
>> With such utilities we can help our people sustainably.
>>
>>
>>
>> Ndemo.
>>
>>
>> Sent from my BlackBerry®
>>
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>> OnlineInterview with PS Ndemo
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