[kictanet] Declining English grammar in our Newsprint

[John K. Njoroge]

Dear William:

I agree with you -- in part.And may be it's all because our economy is 'such
a baby' to be able to sustain the best status required in employee
distribution at different functional and business process levels.

Note, gramatical errors are all over the place, especially on websites [led
by Government websites].

I say this because, I feel our problems are largely that we do not endeavor
to "specialize" on what we do, so that we can do it better and better every
time we make an attempt. Work is simply divided in terms of roles. An
employer may employ an editor but the editor end ups doing many other
things. Both the former and the later do not invest in learning to acquire
specific skills and tools of trade to do well at the editing job. Both in
public and private sector, we are not keep to specialize and learn, towards
taking control of what we do. All the time, we do things 'halfheartedly',
not surely and convincingly. May be this is changing as we approach Kenya
Vision 2030.

There are many unemployed Kenyans, with good qualifications.........but you
find employers struggling to maintain a small workforce that is hardly
focused or consistent at what they do. Take for example 'Government ICT
employees', they are simply employed as ICT Officers. None of them is
employed to specifically deal with certain issues e.g. just web content
management. Not web development or design or even web analysis.

Until we learn how to specialize, thus creating space and jobs for others
who are jobless...............we will never be complete. There will always
be gaps and 'grammatical errors'.

-- 
John Njoroge
IT Strategist
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