[kictanet] Uni City Vs. Konza

[robert yawe]

Hi Listers,

On Friday I past by Kenyatta University (which for some reason the map at the 
iHub refers to as Jomo Kenyatta University), I was greeted by a large poster, 
most likely bigger than the one at Konza, advertising something called the Uni 
City.

I have searched the web but there is scanty if any information, the university 
web site has even less information about the project than the K24 site.

All that is beside the point, I did a quick analysis of such a project and the 
effect it would have on the Konza.  A quick Googleearth search revels that KU 
has a lot of free land that can accommodate a substantially large city, in 
addition across the road is a large chunk of land owned by BrookSide which would 
act very well as an overflow of the developments.

The area around KU already has accommodation, they are putting up a large 
teaching hospital, it is less than 50 kilometres away from JKIA, very close to 
the soon to be developed airport in Kakuzi, is on a superhighway, is surrounded 
by good recreation facilities and last but not least is within a university 
(JKUAT is just up the road and USIU & KCA are down the road).

Uni City is the to kill for location for the new Silicon Savannah ready to role 
out tomorrow, sorry I meant yesterday.  The intellectuals, very many in one 
location, at KU are not doing conferences or touring the world to meet foreign 
experts but instead are out there in execution mode, hawacheki na watu.

If the same concept is replicated at Kabarak, RIAT, Maseno, Moi and others what 
is the need for Konza?

Konza is based on the mainframe approach, the world has gone distributed 
systems, wireless and cloud why the disconnect?

Regards 

PS. Daktari, maybe the threat you had issued once to turn the site at Konza into 
a holding ground for KMC may actually come to pass.

Regards
 Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya


Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
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