[kictanet] Uni City Vs. Konza

[Barrack Otieno]

I saw some Cameramen, but i guess we have representatives from Strathmore on
list who can respond since the invitation was posted on the list.

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Mark Mwangi <mwangy at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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> >>
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> Mark Mwangi
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