[kictanet] Egypt & Tunisia - tipping points

[Barrack Otieno]

Thanks Liko, developement has to be driven from Mashinani, instead of
developing solutions and urging Mwananchi to buy into them we need to
identify his needs and build solutions around this or should i explain it in
Kiswahili, i cant seem to align my words properly in English :-)

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Agosta Liko <agostal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Barrack
>
> Kindly elaborate more on "what the society is needing is a bottom up
> development model"
>
> Thanks
>
> On 2/19/11, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I agree with your point Bob, developing the right culture and attitudes
> is
> > critical if any meaningfull revolution is to be attained in the
> Information
> > Society, i am not very sure if we are doing too well in R&D in so fa as
> > Business Process Re-engineering is concerned, what the society is
> demanding
> > is a bottom up developement model..
> >
> > Best Regards
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:13 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> >> As we call for twitter and facebook organised demonstrations to force
> >> governments out of office lets realise that this populations had reached
> a
> >> tipping point, as they say "the straw that broke the camels back".
> >>
> >> We therefore need to be careful about assuming that just having the
> tools
> >> that were available to the civilians in Egpt and Tunisia are sufficient
> >> for
> >> a mass uprising.
> >>
> >> Using the same analogy in the ICT sector just having high speed internet
> >> and accent neutral english speakers shall not cause a revolution in the
> >> outsourcing arena.  The failures at attempting to replicate Silicon
> Valley
> >> are more than the successes so lets find our own vehicle to leverage
> ICT.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >> PS.  Apology's for the error with my post on airtel and Zimbabwe it was
> >> Zambia
> >>
> >> Robert Yawe
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> >>
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