[kictanet] Laptop project: Pre-bid Conference - who is fooling whom

Mon Aug 19 17:07:51 EAT 2013

Adam,

Too late? Mayb not too late. There is still a huge opportunity.

Kind Regards, 

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whom

If a publisher hasn't started digital publishing by now, it's too late.  

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On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com>
wrote:

Does that make the parents foot the cost of the eBooks or is the govt gonna
take care of that? Oh, and with that I can see the death of the Printing
Press (for the Book publishers) beckoning! They should start thinking
e-Publishing...

On 19 August 2013 16:02, Mark Mwangi <mwangy at gmail.com> wrote:

I am also in the Kindle camp. First of all provide digital copies of all
those text books from the publishers and load them ontu those gadgets. It is
disheartening to watch kids in the morning deforming their backs carrying 20
text books that are less than 20mb in content. Then they can have exercise
books to scribble their hearts away but the course material can remain in
the tablets. 

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Adam Nelson <adam at varud.com> wrote:

One can only wish that they would go further down the Kindle road instead of
laptops.  Kindles are extremely durable, very simple, have multi-week
battery life and are cheaper than laptops ($200).

Plus, they focus on the main problem - access to high quality, ad-free
educational content.  

There are still deficiencies like the fact that children can't use a Kindle
for writing, but writing can be done with pen & paper like virtually
everybody else on this list used in primary school.

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On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:08 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Hi

http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate+News/Kindles+replace+textbooks+
in+Kisumu+school/-/539550/1958602/-/lmib98z/-/index.html

Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya

Tel: +254722511225 <tel:%2B254722511225> , +254202010696
<tel:%2B254202010696> 

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From: Ray Keller <raykeller8 at gmail.com>
To: robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk 
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> 
Sent: Saturday, 17 August 2013, 20:07
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Laptop project: Pre-bid Conference

http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/ktn/video/watch/2000068926/-government-sets-t
ough-deadlines-for-bidders

This video talks about three points:

a) Bidders want to extend the timeline: Why would government like to extend
the timeline? Will they still meet the delivery timeline?

How many laptops per minute one would manufacture to meet the delivery
timeline of two months after award of the contract? Do they have existing
inventory of exactly same specs?

b) Bidders would like the government to test the solution: 

Is there a specific procedure that government(MOE) will use to test the
offered solution in real situation before paying so much money? I think that
it's important to get the laptop, software and content piloted in real
schools/situation before we spend 14.7 Billion Ksh tax payer money. Why is
this step skipped? Is it not important?

I also read an article that government refused to give benefit to the youth
under this transaction claiming that it's an international tender.

Members? Thoughts?

Ray Keller

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com>
wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHjrghroGiU#at=40 

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