[kictanet] Girls who created social network for farmers

[robert yawe]

It is encouraging to see that we are constantly seeing a increasing gender 
balance in the ICT field, the days of computer rooms full of male geeks are 
coming to an end.

I applaud the team but would like to send them this message, concentrate on your 
core strengths which is the development of applications and outsource the rest, 
at least for now.  

This is in response to their response to a question by an interviewer where they 
indicate that they will use the price money to develop a corporate, read top 
heavy, structure and had already brought on board an accountant, marketer and I 
believe she said a HR person.

Entrepreneurs need to learn to spend their scarce resources where they will have 
the greatest return, the rest will fall in place with time.  This is the same 
reason why during a past CIO Breakfast I suggested that to help Virtual City 
maximise on their US$ 1,000,000/- equity investment from Nokia we need to have 
local corporates "sindikisha" them in the harambee spirit.  

For example, Safaricom should sindikisha Nokia contribution to Virtual City with 
bandwidth, and collocation services, HP would throw in the cloud in a box and 
GOK offer office space and a 10 year tax holiday.  If we did this then the US$1M 
from Nokia can be better utilised by Virtual City in developing the core 
solution and not on overhead.

In closing, kudos girls and we look forward to seeing greater things from you.

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: Dorcas Muthoni <dmuthoni at gmail.com>
To: robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Mon, 10 January, 2011 16:52:17
Subject: [kictanet] Girls who created social network for farmers

Congratulations to Jamila and her team!! These girls are going places... we are 
are very proud of you!

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