[kictanet] Can technology solve terrorist problems in Kenya?

Tue Apr 15 10:22:37 EAT 2014

Barrack

Couldn't agree with you more. Though technology can change habits it needs to be anchored on solid a social pillar. The other day I read a quote from Chris Kirubi about social media. What struck me is what he said,about technology. Although the quote was about social media and Brand Strategy I loved what he said about Technology being the tail NOT the dog.

"You don't need a social media strategy - you need a brand strategy that leverages social media. Don't get off the brand strategy just because there's a new communications channel, that's how you lose the plot as a brand. Technology is the tail, not the dog," Chris Kirubi, Chairman of Coca Cola Nairobi (via Tim Sanders). 

So who wags who? The dog or the tail? Food for thought.

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"I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots".  ~ Albert Einstein

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> On Apr 15, 2014, at 9:38 AM, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Mwendwa,
> 
> Our biggest challenge in achieving vision 2030 is in the Social and
> Political pillar. We need a concerted effort that will ensure that we
> are a value driven society, this is the only way we will tame social
> vices that have resulted in the current mess we are in. That said it
> can be done.
> Technology is a means to an end not an end in itself.
> 
> Best Regards
> 
>> On 4/15/14, Crystal Watley Kigoni <crystal at voicesofafrica.org> wrote:
>> If anyone recalls I asked for assistance in 2011 to build a database of all
>> the refugees in the country with distributed points of registration
>> starting in the camps. I wrote to Ndemo who was PS at the time and the idea
>> was ignored.
>> 
>> IT can change a lot, but it requires real effort and implementation. Good
>> ideas alone are not enough.
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> 
>> Crystal Watley Kigoni
>> http://tz.linkedin.com/pub/crystal-kigoni/<http://ke.linkedin.com/pub/crystal-kigoni/>
>> http://www.voicesofafrica.org
>> Twitter: @VoicesofAfrica
>> https://www.facebook.com/VOA4SD
>> 
>> +255686247626
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Mwendwa Kivuva <
>> Kivuva at transworldafrica.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Government to register all Kenyans afresh in digital database
>>> 
>>> http://mobile.nation.co.ke/news/Digital-database-for-all-kenyans/-/1950946/2279712/-/format/xhtml/-/uityfn/-/index.html
>>> 
>>> I've always wondered why it's virtually impossible to get UK or US
>>> citizenship through the back door, unless you get into a phony
>>> marriage with a delinquent from those countries. Will setting up a
>>> biometric database prevent rogue employees at the department of
>>> registration from getting bribes to register foreigners as Kenyan
>>> citizens? As far as I can remember, when I applied for the kipande,
>>> all my 10 digits' prints were taken.
>>> 
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