[kictanet] Egypt & Tunisia - tipping points

[robert yawe]

Hi,

The reasons for the success of the Egyptian revolution has now come clear its a 
handbook titled "Protest Intelligently".  So there was more to the whole process 
than just a solitary act, there was a process which has been documented and is 
now being used to rebel the same action in Libya and other states.

Listening to President Museveni's  answer during an interview by Jeff Koinange 
about the possibility of a uprising in Uganda in the event that he worn the 
election was quite telling, he said that that would be deemed as the uprising by 
a minority and would be dealt with as such.

This approach of social action has outlived its usefulness in the same way that 
the Bangalore and Silicon valley models have become cliché meaning that our 
activities at Malili have a very high likelihood for failure.

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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From: Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com>
To: robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Sat, 19 February, 2011 10:01:11
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Egypt & Tunisia - tipping points

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
>>> KAY System Technologies Ltd
>>> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
>>> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
>>> Kenya
>>>
>>> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
>>>
>>>
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