[kictanet] A must listen

Tue May 24 20:38:55 EAT 2011

Thank you Robert for sharing, its an amazing Video and my blog written a
year ago does not do it justice.

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Wamuyu Gatheru <wamuyu at soko-id.co.ke>wrote:

> Yes, this is an inspiring talk by an articulate US educated Indian
> politician from Kerala. One of my good friends is from Kerala where the
> literacy rate is over 90%.
>
> In a sense, besides its huge population, India is just like us. Their
> politicians are some of the most corrupt. They have severe social divisions
> (baby girls are frequently killed as they are considered a burden, then
> there is that caste business and actually widespread killings were a common
> feature in their general elections). 2/3 of their population is still poor.
>
> I think their redeeming value, that has created the IT industry, is their
> competitive nature. Being number 1 is very important for Indians. My friend
> frequently reminded us of how she was 1st in the entire country when she did
> her MSc. She cried for 3 days non stop, without leaving her room, when she
> failed to get into the World Bank's Young Professionals' programme - she
> made it to the final list of 6 from tens of thousands of applicants.
>
> The lessons: (a) Those doing good things should just keep at it - the
> bad/corrupt guys will continue being bad and the country must succeed
> inspite of them. (b) We need to keep the competitive culture of our public
> ed system (with ofcourse relevant curriculum). The notion, in private
> schools here, that ranking students is bad is strongly disproved by the
> India ed and IT success.
>
> Wamuyu
>
>
> Quoting robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>:
>
>  Picked this from Sam Gichuru's post and would like to recommend that you
>> all
>> listen to this powerful presentation, it will help us stop being a nation
>> of cry
>> babies
>>
>> http://www.samgichuru.com/you-soft-power-and-the-internet/
>>
>>  Robert Yawe
>> KAY System Technologies Ltd
>> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
>> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
>> Kenya
>>
>>
>> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Sam Gichuru <gichuru at gmail.com>
>> To: robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk
>> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>> Sent: Tue, 24 May, 2011 6:24:31
>> Subject: [kictanet] Some Soft Power for Kenya please...
>>
>> Am I building soft power for Kenya?
>>
>> The action that will be taken against Okemo & Gichuru, will decide
>> what pigeon hole the world puts us in, if we complain about being
>> dis-respected
>> its because of the actions we take on a day to day basis. This decisions
>> will be
>> made on round tables by people like me and you, I read the news of Samuel
>> Wanjiru with allot of sadness, knowing that whatever the case is we scored
>> some
>> more bad points globally, losing all credit and more on soft power he had
>> earned
>> the country.
>>
>> Another thing is we cannot generalise this country and say the police are
>> corrupt or Government is corrupt, no, its time to start letting everyone
>> carry
>> their burden, lets say its Sgt "Njoroge or wanjiru", its  Chris Okemo or
>> Samuel
>> Gichuru who is corrupt and prosecute this people as individuals then we
>> send a
>> clear message both locally and globally.
>>
>> Forward thinking means we don't just think globally, we think galactically
>> and
>> act galactically.
>>
>> This video was a big inspiration to me last year. -  by Shashi Tharoor, a
>> man
>> who will win your heart and provoke you any day, Muraya your question on
>> tribalism might be answered here.
>>
>> --
>> Warm Regards,
>> ------------------------
>> Sam Gichuru
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
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>>
>>
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Sam Gichuru

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