[kictanet] Have we failed the nation yet again? - the inzi issue

[robert yawe]

Daktari,

We are technophobes how do you stop this and get people to embrace technology especially those of us who believe that having a high end phone makes them techno savvy.

Today as we discuss the laptop for class one in the west children are being given rasberry pi and other single board devices to encourage them to get involved in coding while we train ours on using packages.

It scares me that I am a member of this industry and everyday I wonder if I might be more useful to this nation as a farmer or maybe even just the administrator of an eco-choo at least then my contribution will receive instant recognition.

We are producing a nation of high level users yet no one is trying to reverse the trend, we no longer have mechanics but fitters, we no longer have implementers but installers, we no longer have lecturers but regurgitators, we no longer have manufactures but traders. I remember a message by a former Indian Ambassador to Kenya who said that no nation has ever industrialized without heavy industry.

The drone in the video is today what children are playing with as toys many supplied as do it yourself kits, Boeing have recently retrofitted an F-16 Jet to be operated fully by remote control while we deal with a hostage situation as we did with the Ngoroko.

Will we see the inzi introduced or even just a blimp for crowd control in the near future?  I strongly doubt it as we do not have the will or intent to leave a mark when we leave and that is sad.

Regards

PS.  As you return to academia let us hope you will work to remedy this institutionalized mediocrity that we keep rewarding and feting.

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


Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696


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 From: Bitange Ndemo <bitange at jambo.co.ke>
To: robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> 
Cc: Bitange Ndemo <bitange at jambo.co.ke>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> 
Sent: Wednesday, 2 October 2013, 16:00
Subject: Re: Have we failed the nation yet again? - the inzi issue
 

Robert,
Nano technologies are here already.  Just like the Japanese miniaturized
everything, we should nononize some products.  I will work with one that
is a bit smaller.  Just imagine if we had one like that with night vision.
We could not have destroyed the entire parking.

Ndemo.




> Daktari,
>
> Is this what you where referring to when you mentioned an inzi?
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5TdbMu8xc4
>
> Regards
>
> PS.  Encouraging gaming could be what saves us next time there is a
> terrorist hostage situation
>
>
>  
> Robert Yawe
> KAY System Technologies Ltd
> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
> Kenya
>
>
> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Bitange Ndemo <bitange at jambo.co.ke>
> To: robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
> Cc: bitange at jambo.co.ke; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
> <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Sent: Monday, 23 September 2013, 16:07
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Have we failed the nation yet again?
>
>
> Robert,
> There is absolutely nothing anybody will have done with ICTs after the
> terrorists stormed the Mall.  All IT gadgets worked properly.  CCTV
> footage is there and was aired on TV yesterday.  The screening askaris had
> no chance since the assailants forced their way in.
>
> Perhaps what we need is more research to mount a camera on a fly (inzi)
> with night vision to fly carefully within the terrorist hideout and
> establish strategically on how to respond.  Some flies could be loaded
> with sleeping gas to put assailants to sleep.  Drones do scan the horizon
> giving military advance knowledge of the terrain.
>
> Right now we should spend a few minutes to praise our uniformed forces.
> They did a commendable job.  In bitterness I am still proud to be Kenyan.
>
>
> Ndemo.
>
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As we console all those who where affected by the happenings at the
>> Westgate Mall over the weekend do we remain blameless as an industry?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>  
>> Robert Yawe
>> KAY System Technologies Ltd
>> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
>> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
>> Kenya
>>
>>
>> Tel: +254722511225,
>> +254202010696_______________________________________________
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>
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> Business School, Lower Kabete Campus


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