[kictanet] Ndemo's Presidential Debate Final Report?

Tue Nov 1 15:09:38 EAT 2011

Good that you have mentioned lack of dependency on Europe/the west.

One of the things that has been confusing me, with time, we have the
population, we have the infrastructure (financial). Why can't Africa
consolidate it's lending? A country like Angola is rich in forex inflows
from well managed (compared to most African countries) oil revenues. Why do
we need to borrow from china, while the government can simply issue a bond
and have financial institutions in Angola buy into it. This gives an avenue
for Angola to invest it's revenue (and also balances out the economy, to
some extent; Luanda is the most expensive city to live in, by some
estimates http://www.citymayors.com/features/cost_survey.html) and gives
Kenya a source of revenue that for once will not have a string attached.
Angola can benefit from our exports at the same time. Intra-African trade
will also create demand for good infrastructure within Africa.

We always look to the West/East for funding not realizing that both Europe
and China developed their capital reserves internally.

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:41 PM, <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:

> Grace,
> Although the manifesto has the ingredients of "my Presidency" it is not
> coherent.  My main objective was to create a knowledge society where
> science becomes the centre point of our development.  With Internet
> everywhere in another few months, we can easily begin to use Internet as a
> development tool that will not only propel our country into a service
> economy but also help create unprecedented efficiencies in government.
>
> As you are aware capitalism is under the greatest test world over and
> there seems to be lack of leadership from traditional ideologues.  It is a
> great chance for us to show the way since we do not have legacy issues as
> it relates to ideology.  Just like Franklin Rosefelt did during the great
> depression, there is need to weave a bit of socialism into capitalism.  By
> this I mean we shall take care of three most important social problems of
> our time.  This is education, health and housing.  We shall make Internet
> a human right issue then pumb lots of content through it to schools and
> create a level playing field for all.
>
> For this to work we must first deal with energy as I said as a
> prerequisite.  Resources to undertake these projects will come from the
> efficiencies we create in government when we automate every record and
> open up thegovernment through the open data initiative.  Here you will
> create an environment for innovation.  Further you create jobs especially
> in the BPO sector.  Other areas will include gaming, software development
> and animation.
>
> Much of the animated content would focus on all syllabi of all African
> countries for educational content.  Of the $84 billion market, we shall
> first target10 percent of that market.  The gaming industry we also target
> some 5 percent of more than $120 billion industry.
>
> As we develop housing, we shall work to create smarter cities with the aim
> of fighting decease through prevention.  The aim is to limit the more than
> 20 billion shillings used in testing for malaria and typhoid and also
> avoid taking people to hospital and changing the health paradigm from
> curative to prevention.
>
> The world has given us the opportunity to begin to think big but we must
> do the basics like controlling our population growth.  It does not auger
> well for us to grow at the rate we are at the moment when we already have
> a problem with food security.  Whenever your people are food insecure, it
> dents your confidence greatly.
>
> We shall have a clear foreign policy with more emphasies on Africa.  Our
> growth is more dependent on Africa as we move forward.  We must
> de-emphasize our dependency on Europe for our economic development and
> start fighting for apace here in Africa.  If we grow our business in
> Africa, we shall rebuild not only our image but confidence levels.  This
> is what all other candidates lack.
>
> You realize I have not said much about Asia.  This is because we can fifgt
> them without suffering as much as we would if we were to ignore the
> Western world.  This is far more complex to state here.
>
> I will write more later.  Just starting to listen to UK Prime Minister,
> David Cameron.
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> Ndemo
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Dr Ndemo
> >
> > Greetings.
> >
> > Please refer to the attached summary of the issues you raised during the
> > 'Ndemo for President Campaign'. Its been a hectic time for us considering
> > we were all busy with the IGF.
> >
> > We are now in the process of finalizing this and other reports. We have
> > noted that there were two questions that you did not answer. Do you think
> > you could respond to them so that you allow us to finalize? You can also
> > react to the summary and ofcourse any lister is free to react/respond.
> >
> > The two questions:
> > 1. How does the government alleviate the fear of making the wrong
> > decision(s) and are there any measures in place for success and tolerance
> > for failure within government?
> >
> > 2. How would you ensure public officers are provided with freedom to make
> > choices, to make mistakes, know the options for redress, and put an exit
> > strategy in place should things go wrong?
> >
> > A great week to you and to all the listers.
> >
> > Rgds
> > GG
> >
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