[kictanet] Connected Summit highly sponsored by International tech giants

[Adam Nelson]

The answer to your first question is Brown University, primarily funded by
a hard core capitalist slaveholder in Providence, Rhode Island:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Brown,_Sr.

However, I agree with the critique of multinationals as being somewhat
above sovereign law, but that's not the initial critique - which is simply
that foreign multinationals are going to be getting Kenyan government
contracts as an indirect result of making personal connections at the
conference.



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On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:31 PM, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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