[kictanet] Connected Summit highly sponsored by International tech giants

[S.M. Muraya]

Adam,

Have noted many times, the world was not civilized by people primarily
motivated by profit.

Which of the Top 5 Ivy League Colleges, around which, whole US towns and
counties have developed, was founded or grounded by hard core capitalists?

We are (slowly) developing Kenya via hundreds of local businesses with
visionary/missionary leaders.

The biggest bank (now less hospitable after foreign shareholding increased)
in Kenya focused on masses ignored by multinationals.

)=:
On May 30, 2013 10:38 AM, "Adam Nelson" <adam at varud.com> wrote:

> I never really understand this line of critique.
>
> Kenya is only the 32nd largest country in the world, the 84th largest
> economy, ranks 121st in ease of doing business and does not facilitate easy
> access to work permits for skilled foreigners.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
> http://www.doingbusiness.org/data/exploreeconomies/kenya/
>
> Why would one expect Kenyan companies to be able to compete with the
> international players with these statistics?
>
> People always talk about how there are local companies that are at this
> level, but I don't see any Kenyan ICT companies with thousands of engineers
> and multi-billion dollar market caps like the ones in this post.  Who else
> is going to do large government contracts at a globally competitive calibre?
>
> Don't get me wrong, I know exactly how wasteful these contracts can be and
> New York is no stranger to bloated IT implementations.  Nonetheless, these
> big projects can't just be done by a 3 year old 10 person shop either.  The
> solution to that problem is to hire better best of breed companies like
> ThoughtWorks to train up high quality teams of government employees so that
> each department has their own internal capacity, not to simply focus on
> building up more of a local contractor base.
>
> -Adam
>
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>
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Rebecca Wanjiku <rebeccawanjiku at yahoo.com
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>  This week, the talk is about Connected Kenya Summit. There are more
>> than 400 private and public sector folks to discuss ways to improve Kenya.
>> The summit has cost more than Ksh 50 million.
>> The ICT Board may not have raised the whole amount, maybe less than sh 8
>> million. The majority of the money is from sponsors. Look at the link on
>> sponsors page of Connected Kenya, what do you see?
>> These are mostly international companies? How do they make money?
>> Read more......
>>
>>
>> http://www.wanjiku.co.ke/2013/05/kenyas-connected-summit-heavily-funded-by-international-tech-giants/
>>
>>
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