[kictanet] Uni City Vs. Konza

[Barrack Otieno]

Bobby,

On the same subject, i attended the public lecture on managing complex
projects at Strathmore University, Governor (rtd) Nahashon Nyagah (all
protocol observed) and his team made a very interesting presentation on Tatu
City, it thought there might be so much that can be borrowed from their
approach, i am sure those who attended can attest to this, Daktari is there
a way we can tap into this resource of experts, i beleive they are Kenyans
for Kenya.

Kind Regards

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:28 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> 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
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