[kictanet] How we are killing our Kenyan ICT Industry, what we could do to revive it!

[S.M. Muraya]

Great blog/article.

On another note, we can use KES 100B (per annum) of the KES 300+B returned
to treasury to automate many government processes without neo colonial
donor conditions :)

http://mobile.nation.co.ke/News/Ministries+fail+to+spend+Sh300bn/-/1950946/1986188/-/format/xhtml/-/143k7o1z/-/index.html
On Sep 18, 2013 1:08 PM, "Ngigi Waithaka" <ngigiwaithaka at gmail.com> wrote:

> Guys,
>
> It seems whatever is happening at KICT Authority has caught quite some
> attention, which is good, as we cannot forever go hiding as if everything
> is okay, when clearly the status quo remains and only less than 10% of
> current GoK procurement is for products and services produced locally.
>
> I have blogged about the recent happenings here and comments are welcome.
> http://www.a1.io/a1io_blog/kenyan-ict-industry-old-habits-die-hard/
>
> As regards lobbying for local ICT industry, and for those who were there
> during #140Friday, a lot needs to be done as currently what we have are
> just rumblings and subsequent hot-air from the powers that be that our
> grievances will be addressed.
>
> IMO, probably the only way is for the local ICT players to join Kenya
> Association of Manufacturers (KAM). It is the only body with the
> experience, resource and drive to piush for adoption and promotion of local
> industry. Any other bodies such as KITOS/CSK etc that have previously been
> suggested do not have the experience, knowledge and drive to push our
> agenda. Infact, if you ask me, they will just be used to ensure the
> status-quo remains.
>
> The second way is to prepare to challenge the status-quo legally. It will
> cost quite some money, but no one ever said freedom is cheap!
>
> We are already meeting amongst a couple of firms with KAM, and I will be
> pushing for them to allow either corporate and individual membership and
> use them to articulate our issues.
>
> But, bottom line, we cannot let the networks of old that intentionally
> lock out Kenyan firms from grabbing the bigger chunks of ICT Projects
> procurement, and especially so that now everything ICT has been centralized
> at KICT Authority.
>
> We are centralizing to gain efficiencies not so that we can centralize
> corruption.
>
> Ngigi Waithaka
> A1.iO
>
>
>
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