[kictanet] Korea

Tue Nov 8 19:58:05 EAT 2011

Painful man... Painful!

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki at gmail.com> wrote:

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> http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_cd&idim=country:KEN&dl=en&hl=en&q=kenya+gdp+statistics#ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_cd&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=country:KEN:KOR&ifdim=country&hl=en&dl=en
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> For a graphical comparison. Apologies for the long link.
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> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 7:25 PM, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Will you visit one of the churches?
>>
>>
>> http://pewresearch.org/pubs/657/south-koreas-coming-election-highlights-christian-community
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>> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 5:19 PM, <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:
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>>>  I arrived in Korea yesterday for a Global e-Government conference.  ITU
>>> ranks Korea as number one in ICT diffusion.  From the airport you see
>>> people walk through with an e-passport using biometrics.  The New Incheon
>>> airport is 70 Kms west of Seoul, the capital and largest city of South
>>> Korea with some 11 million inhabitants. It is one of the largest and
>>> busiest airports in the world actually the world's fourth busiest airport
>>> by cargo traffic, and the world's eighth busiest airport in terms of
>>> international passengers in 2010.
>>>
>>> Korea is about 99,000 sq Kms or one half of the Rift Valley Province of
>>> Kenya with a population of 50 million and a GDP of $1 trillion (Kenya's
>>> GDP is about $35 billion).  In the 60's it was largely a donor recipient
>>> country with a GDP less than that of Kenya and more than 60% of its
>>> population below poverty.  They have turned tables to be a member of the
>>> OECD and a donor country over a short period.
>>>
>>> For many years it mostly depended on the USA as its largest trade partner
>>> but over a time they focused their energies on the Asian Markets.  Its
>>> trade with China, USA and Japan in 2010 figures stands at %190, $98 and
>>> $90 billion respectively.  They import a great deal of food and the
>>> reason
>>> why we should not lease our land but use it to improve on our economic
>>> growth.  A Kg of meat here is $100 imported from Canada and Brazil.
>>>
>>> I asked our Ambassador why we cannot sell our meat here.  He says we do
>>> not meat their standards.  This should not be a problem since we have
>>> broadband in most parts of the country that we can keep pace with the
>>> rest
>>> of the world in keeping the records especially those required by various
>>> standrds organization.
>>>
>>> Back to Korea.  ICTs are also deployed along the highways making it
>>> easier
>>> to go through the toll stations and collecting all the revenues.  You can
>>> get data from government at every hour.  You can for example know the
>>> number of children born in a day throughtout the country.  There is CCTV
>>> practically everywhere.  Crime is approaching zero.
>>>
>>> There is an over supply of affordable public transport via the rail and
>>> bus system all clean and on time.  If you choose to drive on your own,
>>> you
>>> are taxed at every new turn you make.  The tax from the polluters who
>>> cannot use public transport is used to subsidize the energy efficient
>>> public tranportation.
>>>
>>> Every child after high school has to go through the Military thus
>>> instilling the discipline required in this competitive world.  Because of
>>> such discipline, they do everything very fast.  We were literaly running
>>> behind our hosts to catch up with them.  In the Newspapers there is a
>>> Bank
>>> executive who has committed suicide because he gave questionable loans to
>>> friends.  He killed himself for shaming his family and that he may not
>>> have any friends.
>>>
>>> My experience here confirms much of what we have been saying in this
>>> forum.  The problem is how to inculcate such high levels of ethical
>>> standards as well as feeling of shame.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>>
>>> Ndemo.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development.
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> Warm Regards,
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> Phares Kaboro Kariuki
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