[kictanet] President Kenyatta secures Microsoft support for computers

Tue Jun 4 22:20:05 EAT 2013

Is there anybody naive enough to believe Micro$oft is Robinhood?

Micro$oft will continue to laugh all the way to the bank, as we debate
merits of what platform to adopt. Anybody ever heard of Economic Hit
Men (EHM)! I can assure you, we have been hit.

Let's not forget that M$ is not evil. They are just trying as hard as
everybody else to remain relevant in the hard economic times, and pay
their shareholders. But should we do it with our blood?

How many new computers are sold with proprietary M$ software in Kenya?
How much of that hard earned capital could go into  better use, like
pay our MPs? ;-)

Why have established and developed economies seen the need to move
from propietary software to FOSS, to the extend of legislating in
parliament?

How comes the Open Source community was caught napping? How was M$
able to pull the carpet under them?

Probably it's time to occupy Ministry of Education and Ministry of
Information and let Kenyans know the merits and de-merits of the
government position to partner with Micro$oft.

Have you ever tried to change a company who's employees were weaned
with M$ and ICDL to FOSS? You will see Organisational behavour
resistance to change at it's best.

Remember "The foundation of a strong economy don't rest alone on the
decision of Chancellors or the spending programs of government" -
George Osborne
.

PS. Lets not forget Dr. Ndemo has a job to protect government position
and interests. As articulate and convincing as he is, the government
has got this all wrong.
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Mwendwa Kivuva
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On 04/06/2013, dmakali at yahoo.com <dmakali at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On that note, and considering that the cabinet slots have all now been
> filled, may be the jubilee admin should consider dr ndemo to head this konza
> technology park so that he steers the ambitious idea to the next level and
> takes this laptops idea forward, my reservations being noted.
>  Or?
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry®
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Bitange Ndemo" <bitange at jambo.co.ke>
> Sender: "kictanet"
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> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 20:18:47
> To: <dmakali at yahoo.com>
> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>;
> isoc at orion.my.co.ke<isoc at orion.my.co.ke>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] President Kenyatta secures Microsoft support for
>  computers
>
> Barrack,
> As I promised, Prof. Godia accepted to respond to your questions on
> Kicktanet.  You will need to fix e-mail, godiaes at yahoo.com into the
> mailing list to make it easier to reply.
>
> I attended the State House function and Microsoft agreed to do the
> following:
>
> 1.	Work with different partners to Train ALL Primary School Teachers
> computers (more than 260,000) to enable them implement computer to schools
> programme by January.  They are ready to start as soon as the Government
> of Kenya gives the go-ahead to start the programme at County level;
> 2.	Work with different partners to develop and train at least five
> enterprises in each County to provide technical support in Hardware,
> Connectivity and Software to all schools within each County; and
> 3.	Develop a research and innovation hub at Konza Technology Park to
> support software developers in the region.
> 4. Work with other Hardware manufacturers to develop a sustainable model
> that includes local assembly of computers as well as local software and
> content development that can be replicated in other African countries
>
> This will go a long way in realzing our President's commitment to
> achieving his promises to the Kenyan people.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Ndemo.
>
>
>
>
>
>> Walu,
>>
>> I think its time we focused on other issues, seems this project is a
>> foregone conclusion. We will take stock in 2017.
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Whao!
>>>
>>> When I grow up, I want to work for M$oft :-)
>>>
>>> Sounds like they are concluding the deal to be on 1million laptops next
>>> year - as we are busy tweeting on what Software is relevant for pupils
>>> in
>>> Standard one. Read on
>>> @
>>> http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Uhuru-secures-Microsoft-support-for-computers/-/1056/1871904/-/7i517tz/-/index.html
>>>
>>> walu.
>>>
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