[kictanet] Taking Care of the Future

Tue Sep 25 18:11:05 EAT 2012

One thing stands out from the US visit. New York is a city that has
consistently re-invented itself. Hence, it's been relevant from the 1890's
to date and aims to be relevant in future.

>From all the Konza plans, it's seems that Nairobi is incorrigible. That we
have given up on it? Also, does the US have a Special Economic Zone we
could draw lessons from?

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 6:00 PM, <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:

> Barrack/Hussien et al,
> The Government and City authorities as well as ordinary citizens have a
> responsibility in ensuring that we create the necessary ecosystem.
>
> For a start we need to ask the Nairobi Gubanatorial candidates what plans
> they have for Nairobi.  Failure to do that means that we lose the chance
> and expose ourselves with the risk of bad leadership.  The same applies for
> the country leadership.
>
> Further the citizens must be more open minded especially in the area of
> immigration.  US has an open policy for any good graduate.  We could not be
> having I Phone if a Syrian national never found his way to US and fathered
> Steve Jobs.  Similarly Obama will not be there.  When Carl Max wrote the
> Communist Ideology he was living in London.  Nearer to home we could not be
> having Craft Silicon if we closed our borders.
>
> As a free market economy we must fully embrace competition from personal
> to organizational level.  When you succeed at that level you succeed
> globally.  We have done so especially in Ushahidi and more new applications
> that will be scalable.  That is why I say we are OK for now and we must do
> more and think more outside the box.  Do we really know that we have a
> complex ideology that is not often practised?
>
> See Obama's manifesto on education and how he wants to see a better
> competitive nation.  Americans have appreciated that and you can understand
> why he leads Rommny.  We need to move out of our ethnicity and judge those
> who will lead us not by what we hope to benefit from them but by the
> content of their character.  We hold key to change but we could rather talk
> and not act appropriately.
>
> What does Matemu's precedence setting case got to do with our future?
>
> Bitange Ndemo.
>
>
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry®
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:44:00
> To: Ali Hussein<ali at hussein.me.ke>; <bitange at jambo.co.ke>
> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Taking Care of the Future
>
> + 1 Ali, Daktari to quote you ' We must move up the ladder through
> research and begin to lead the rest of the world.' who is supposed to
> spear head this , does government have a role to play?
>
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:
> > +1 Daktari
> >
> > For bringing to the fore fundamental issues and the potential for the
> future
> > of this country.
> >
> > However, to quote your last sentence 'That is OK for now.' Allow me to
> > humbly disagree..
> >
> > It is NOT OK. We have made great strides in this country and yet a lot
> still
> > needs to be done. If we sit on our laurels and thump our chests because
> the
> > great companies of the world are now camping in Kenya to understand what
> it
> > is that makes this country tick in matters mobile & tech then we risk
> all.
> > The Annals of History are strewn with once great companies and countries
> > that ate their own spiel and found themselves in the dustbins of history.
> >
> > The spirit of openness, industriousness, perseverance and risk taking
> that
> > make up our whole is something that needs to be continuously watered.
> >
> > Thank you Daktari for sharing your thoughts and views.
> >
> > Ali Hussein
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 7:02 AM, <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:
> >>
> >> Through HR&A our Master Developer at Konza we met two agencies today in
> >> New York involved with the development of  a futuristic New York that
> will
> >> be competitive in the next 50 years.
> >>
> >> Hudson Yards Development Corporation was created by Mayor Bloomberg to
> >> redevelop a section of New York that was their industrial area. It
> covers
> >> approximately 300 acres with mostly non high rise buildings. The city
> now
> >> wants high rises to meet future office demands.
> >>
> >> Here they are buying back most of the land while developing modern
> >> infrastructure including the subway. Consultants are working day and
> night
> >> to ensure the redeveloped area meets current and future needs.
> >>
> >> Later we visited the New York City Development Corporation charged with
> >> NY's future competitiveness.  They noted that in 1890, NY wad basically
> a
> >> trading centre. In the 1940s, it became an Industrial City and today it
> is
> >> largely a financial and services city.  They now want to switch gears
> to a
> >> more technology city.
> >>
> >> Through a competitive process, they have put together a number of
> >> universities to deliberately steer NY into another Silicon Valley.
> Cornell
> >> University is paired with Israel Institute of Technology to deliberately
> >> create multi disciplinary programs in applied sciences and
> entrepreneurship.
> >> NY University too will partner with other global centres of excellence
> such
> >> as Indian Institute of Technology to also focus on innovation and
> >> entrepreneurship.
> >>
> >> To help create a competitive future, the city will give free land and
> >> other incentives. They are demolishing one of the hospitals in order to
> >> create space for a futuristic project. Each of the different university
> >> grouping will focus in a specialized area that will be critical in the
> days
> >> to come. They are coming up with courses like health analytics, smart
> cities
> >> etc.
> >>
> >> This is how in future we can use data to predict our future. This is
> very
> >> critical and many lessons for developing countries. As we continue to do
> >> things the same way it has always been done, things remain the same and
> this
> >> ain't good at all. We need to leverage on what we have and do a little
> more.
> >>
> >> In the evening I attended a UN sponsored launch of Better than Cash
> >> Alliance at the Ford Foundation. Here speaker after speaker lauded
> Kenya for
> >> its contribution towards mobile money. Our own Michael Joseph was in
> >> attendance.  This was a launch to scale up what has been successful in
> Kenya
> >> (75% of mobile money transactions world wide happens in Kenya). We
> shall see
> >> many researchers coming to Kenya. We must move up the ladder through
> >> research and begin to lead the rest of the world.
> >>
> >> Instead of spending many hours arguing the merits and demerits of SAP
> >> training some Kenyans we need a mobile payroll system that can be
> integrated
> >> with Government's Integrated Financial Management System.
> >>
> >> When Matatus were introduced, there was a regulated transport system in
> >> Kenya. Buses could not just stop anywhere. They were like the
> proprietary
> >> software. Mini buses could stop anywhere and charged based on distance
> >> travelled and eventually dealt a blow to buses in urban centres. The
> rest
> >> today is history.
> >>
> >> That is ok for now.
> >>
> >>
> >> Ndemo.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Sent from my BlackBerry®
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: bitange at jambo.co.ke
> >> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 04:00:12
> >> To: Alice Munyua<alice at apc.org>;
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> >> Reply-To: bitange at jambo.co.ke
> >> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> >> Subject: Re: Taking Care of the Future
> >>
> >>
> >> Sent from my BlackBerry®
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
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> >> 2012 20:20:09
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> >> Subject: [kictanet] Invitation to join dialogue on African civil
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> >>
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> > Ali Hussein
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> >
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