[kictanet] Konza, a disconnect

[John Kieti]

Yes - even highly virtual teams do need locations for servers.

Perhaps even more important is knowing that you can meet all sorts of
partners and people in one place that through serendipity or otherwise will
contribute to growth of your tech entreprise. That's what physical hubs
such as iHub have began to demonstrate and this will be of much benefit
when scaled up through initiatives such as Konza City,

Regards

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Mark Mwangi <mwangy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Give me a technologically superior nation with poorly developed
> infrastructure. Its ok I will wait.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:24 AM, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Konza will function as a "Data Center" City I thought?
>>
>> Even highly virtual teams do need locations for servers, storage... etc
>>
>> No?
>>
>> :)
>> On Nov 26, 2012 9:17 AM, "robert yawe" <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>   Software development is no longer about a physical location, so as
>>> the world goes virtual we continue to move backwards obsessed with physical
>>> infrastructure
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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