[kictanet] Uni City Vs. Konza

[Mark Mwangi]

was the talk recorded and is there any link on YouTube or somewhere?

On 8/18/11, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>> KAY System Technologies Ltd
>> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
>> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
>> Kenya
>>
>> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
>>
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