[kictanet] Going beyond coding

Tue Sep 27 09:17:27 EAT 2011

Hi,

Coders are a dime a dozen, we can be seen from the applications being developed in the areas you mentioned and the number os applications available on apple store, samsung store, nokia store, lg store, mwembe tayari store and many other stores.

We have developed the coders we need to find a non-techie environment to expose them to those who can visualise the applications developed as solutions to various problems.  

I liked the Strathmore presentations which were a step in the right direction but we need a leap otherwise we shall keep lagging behind.  The business plans presented where interesting but too academic, I wish I had a PHd. so that I could get myself on the advisory board, oops wrong approach, immediately I get the PHd. I become another academic and thus cease to be valuable.

The Microsoft example should not be dismissed lightly as it is the format used by many others to bring their products to market so keeping coders together in a room forces them to concentrate on techie issues, we need to keep them in constant contact with prospective end users and other realists to prevent kwashiako. 

Regards

If an application does not solve a problem it is not worth the disk space its written on

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: James Mbugua <jgmbugua at gmail.com>
To: robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk
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Sent: Monday, 26 September 2011, 18:06
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Going beyond coding

..err Robert, first we have to have those coders for them to be spotted and bought.

Read perhaps, the current state of mobile applications development. A lot of apps be it at iHub, Strathmore, UoN, eMobilis, NaiLab and so on are being developed. There may not be immediate financial gain to be made from some of them but a mobile app development movement (maybe thats not the right word) is growing and from among these, perhaps your astute venture capitalist/entrepreneur can spot a gem and turn it into a viable enterprise.

May be we should hold periodic mobile apps fairs at business schools such as UoN School of Business to bring innovation and entrepreneurship together.

JG 

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:59 PM, <info at alyhussein.com> wrote:

Well put Robert and Muchiri.
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