[kictanet] Dreams of a cosy career that turned into a nightmare

[Omo, John]

Thanks GG and Team. 

After WICKED, I'm taking the challenge to give a breakfast talk (in
Westlands) on this if I  someone would take the challenge to sponsor it?

OMO, j

 

 

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Ali

Does the innovation belong to the employer considering it may have been
developed to suit the needs of the employer? This might be open to
various interpretations by different lawyers. 

 

This caught my attention:

"According to the letter, KRA has used the technovation and communicated
it to a third party, although the law states that this entitles the
technovator to "a remuneration which shall be fixed by mutual agreement
between the technovator and the enterprise.

This is because KRA went ahead to submit the system to an international
innovation fair, where it won an award. It has since publicised the
award, even on its website".

http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/smartcompany/KRA-caught-up-in-Sh1-billi
on-tender-row/-/1226/1623708/-/item/2/-/rpgfcm/-/index.html

 

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From: ali at hussein.me.ke
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:58:01 +0300
Subject: [kictanet] Dreams of a cosy career that turned into a nightmare
CC: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
To: ggithaiga at hotmail.com

Listers

 

This is an interesting case study of the link between employer/employee
relations on Intellectual Property. Who owns the IP when you
invent/innovate while working at a company and the invention/innovation
is directly linked to the work you have been hired to do?

 

IN SUMMARY

*	When Mr Samson Ngengi beat thousands of applicants to land the
coveted position at the tax agency in December 2009, the graduate of
Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology (JKUAT) had one thing
on his mind; to ensure that he gets absorbed into the job
*	Mr Ngengi came up with an innovation that links plot boundaries
and location, ownership, and building details as well as tax status of a
taxpayer as a single view in a computer application, in an effort to
give KRA an insight into how to get its pound of flesh from the
lucrative real estate sector
*	His innovation was named the Geo-spatial Revenue Collection
Information System (GEOCRIS). But little did he know that he would,
early in his career, find himself fighting his employer

 

Is there a strong case here to also focus our Techpreneurs on the
'softer' stuff of turning their ideas/products etc into viable
businesses? You know the boring stuff...the nuts and bolts of building
an enduring business? Protecting your business idea, building a business
system to deliver on the values opposition, sales, legal standing
(company registration) etc..

 

What would have happened if Samson had decided to quite his job at KRA
and develop his idea independently?

 

There has been lots of news of late about the hype that has become known
as 'Silicon Savannah'. It would be sad if the hype is not concurrently
followed by serious efforts to build an ecosystem to support all these
brilliant (and not so brilliant) ideas and turn them into strong
enduring businesses. 

 

For every Cellulant there are maybe tens of others that will never see
the light of day. 

 

There is a case here for a new type of Multi-stakeholder intervention -
between government, private sector (VC, Companies etc) and Not For
Profits. I suspect this is already happening in some form or other. More
focus is required.

 

Ali Hussein

CEO | 3mice interactive media Ltd

Principal | Telemedia Africa Ltd

 

+254 773/713 601113

 

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