[kictanet] [Skunkworks] Kenya IGF 2011 List Discussions Day 4 Cloud Computing

[Barrack Otieno]

You bring an interesting dimension to the debate Mich, i agree with your
perspective as well.

Best Regards



On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Michuki Mwangi <michuki at swiftkenya.com>wrote:

> @Aki,
>
> Am going to play the devils advocate here :).
>
> On 7/5/11 7:51 AM, aki wrote:
> >
> > Why would the govt promote cloud computing as a national importance when
> > they gave out the digitization project to Google? Our data now sits on
> > Google servers!
> >
>
> Why not?.
>
>
> > I believe that those interested in cloud services should shun these
> > until the govt leads on such,
>
> Please tell me is there any local company in Kenya that can provide
> services that can compete or match Google's cloud services?.
>
> > I also think that before we proceed on any further discussions, we need
> > to know why the Govt choose Google as the cloud service.
> >
>
> Maybe we should compare it to this. Why is the Govt going for VW Passats
> yet we have the Nyayo Pioneer car idling somewhere or am i mistaken?.
>
>
> But on a more serious note - has anyone build an infrastructure here and
> am not talking about a Data Center with all the bells and whistles. Am
> talking about a service framework that is scalable and robust enough to
> make the GoK think twice about giving their services to that provider?.
> Here am not talking about the scale of Google am talking small enough to
> handle GoK but scalable to handle all of E.A Govts and more without
> breaking.
>
> We are lacking in many extends from both technical expertise (and am
> sure many folks will differ with me on this one) and more driven by the
> $ than by the technology to care to know how to build it all together.
>
> We have been quick to say that why reinvent the wheel in so many of the
> forums here (including myself). However, the downside of not reinventing
> the wheel is we take the wheel and use it without understanding why it
> was built that way - we just know that we need it and we use it (see
> Joomla discussion).
>
> In conclusion, we have quickly to making revenues from a technology we
> barely understand. As a result, those who understand it better will
> always outcompete the rest of us.
>
> If you think about it - long before there was cloud folks had something
> called rocketmail and hotmail. Then came yahoo and even then their
> business model was a mystery to many in actual sense online advertising
> was still a distant concept in 1997 - 2000. But see what they lead to
> today. So basically they made the wheel and improved on the wheel and
> now its no longer a wheel but a mirage of a wheel.
>
> My 2 cents.
>
> Michuki.
>
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