[kictanet] Of Vision 2030 and Misplaced Priorities

[robert yawe]

Hi Listers,

I was at Tandaa on Monday and the presenter brought home a very critical issue 
about applications and business in general, "money follows a great product and 
not vis versa".

Bill Gates developed BASIC with no financial plan and so did the developers of 
Google, Facebook, Linux, Oracle, Yahoo and a myriad of other great application 
we cannot live without today.

Why do we think we can change the model for the development of products from 10% 
inspiration and 90% perspiration to 10% theory and 110% financing.

@Phares Lets get down to perspiration wakati wa maneno umekwisha.

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: Phares Kariuki <pkariuki at gmail.com>
To: robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Tue, 7 June, 2011 17:48:00
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Of Vision 2030 and Misplaced Priorities

@Robert My strength is in building the infrastructure, not building applications 
:-). I can create the platform the app is to be created on.

At the end of the day, it's something rather simple to do, I guess the first 
thing to be done is to have the meeting to see what resources can be raised and 
what the shortfalls are. 

What's most important is to get a system out there. Whether it will have to be 
built from scratch or we can customise an open source system.

Additionally, can't such a system be spun off as a University student project? 
Especially considering Nairobi University, Kenyatta University and Moi 
University both have Computer Science departments and teaching/referral 
hospitals (in the case of Nairobi University,  its Kenyatta, if I'm not wrong, 
KU is building a Hospital) and medical departments... The app can be developed 
and hosted within the university with a young testing audience while getting the 
expertise from the experienced teachers etc... Just a suggestion on how it can 
work... Kenyatta University may actually be the best bet as everything is in the 
formative stages... 


On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:30 PM, James Kariuki <jkariuki at gmail.com> wrote:

While the discussion is going on. The National Academies Press has
>released 4000 books online for free online.
>(http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/free-for-all-national-academies-press-puts-all-4000-books-online-at-no-charge/31582)
>
>
>One particular reference that could be of interest to this discussion
>is the: Computational Technology for Effective Health Care: Immediate
>Steps and Strategic Directions
>(http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12572). It provides some
>reasonably well articulated "principles of access" that could be
>applicable in our situation. It also provides/defines the roles of the
>key stakeholders in the implementation of successful Health IT
>programs
>
>Regards
>--James
>
>
>
>On 7 June 2011 11:49, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On point Victor, hence the reason I chose the title of vision 2030 and
>> misplaced priorities, we will continue building infrastructure using
>> debt and use them to dry maize or have our goats which know nothing
>> about return on investment rest on them simply because we allowed
>> those who know why to develop and  implement projects without
>> involvement of the affected, I read in a book that he who knows how is
>> always at the mercy of he who knows why, I admit people are losing
>> faith in stakeholder forums and calling them talkshops because there
>> is no one to hold accountable, the leaders blame the citizens yet the
>> citizens try to ensure that they have a comfortable environment so
>> that they can think on their behalf through paying taxes.
>
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With Regards,

Phares Kariuki

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