[kictanet] Why Konza is high on rhetoric and short on prudence

[Joseph Wafula]

Dear All,

IBM is out to make Konza Tech City a reality through support of ICT human capacity building in cutting age  technologies. See press release

 xhttp://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/40255.wss

Regards

Dr Wafula

Sent from my iPad

On Jan 30, 2013, at 9:48 AM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:

> @ Yawe,
> 
> I discovered your critical soul mate below:
> 
> By Mr Owino is the CEO, Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA-Kenya)
> Posted  Monday, January 28  2013 at  19:40
> In Summary
> Tech city will cost over $8.5bn and create 200,000 jobs: is this reasonable spending relative to alternatives?
> Two days ago, the leading news item in the print and electronic media was the formal launch of the Konza Technology City by President Kibaki.
> To many, it was the beginning of the quest to establish the equivalent of Silicon Valley, hence the name Africa’s Silicon Savannah.
> 
> 
> read on @
> 
> http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion---Analysis/Why-Konza-is-high-on-rhetoric-and-short-on-prudence/-/539548/1677948/-/item/0/-/hxdx7d/-/index.html
> 
> or shorter link
> http://tinyurl.com/b2dw6xb
> 
> I think its food for thought.
> 
> walu.
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