[kictanet] Blow as acting Konza techno city boss Catherine Adeya quits

Wed Jan 28 18:12:21 EAT 2015

Sometimes I wonder...to kickstart Konza...why not take 100 software developers/it specialists and give them "space" to work from and have 1 big internet pipe servicing the area.....for free for first 1yr...then for a fee from year 2....ok maybe my idea is unreasonable but we aren’t dealing with reasonable circumstances in this country/continent.

Maybe young technology entusiasts would work anywhere if they had internet and not have to pay rent at their initial start. Plus from year two, you would convert those people to "partners" of the Konza City.

Let me get back to punching code.....

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From: kictanet [mailto:kictanet-bounces+bkioko=bernsoft.com at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Barrack Otieno via kictanet
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 5:16 PM
To: bkioko at bernsoft.com
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Blow as acting Konza techno city boss Catherine Adeya quits

Well done Catherine i bet it has not been easy, we do hope Konza City will become a reality some day just like Free Primary Education, having attended the groundbreaking before former President Kibaki left office,i am hopeful that the optimism he had is still there.

Best Regards

On 1/28/15, Catherine Adeya via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> Bernard,
> Wacha siasa :-)
> Catherine
>
>      On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 3:49 PM, Bernard Kioko 
> <bkioko at bernsoft.com> wrote:
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> sign-off contains the entire story!  From: kictanet 
> [mailto:kictanet-bounces+bkioko=bernsoft.com at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On 
> Behalf Of Catherine Adeya via kictanet
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 3:35 PM
> To: bkioko at bernsoft.com
> Cc: elizaslider at yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Blow as acting Konza techno city boss 
> Catherine Adeya quits  Yes Mwendwa, I am a founding member of Kictanet 
> and will always be here though sometimes I lurk in the background. To 
> set the record straight. I did not quite, my Contract in government 
> has come to an end. I have been Acting for two years and truth be 
> told, I  did not want to be handed the position on a silver platter. 
> They advertised, I did not apply. The rest is history so let me sign 
> off with: How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the 
> seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with 
> the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only 
> we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into 
> the unknown. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Thank you,Catherine
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:09:19 +0300
> From: Mwendwa Kivuva <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com>
> To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>,
>     "ISOC at lists.my.co.ke" <isoc at lists.my.co.ke>
> Subject: [kictanet] Blow as acting Konza techno city boss Catherine
>     Adeya    quits
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> Listers, we should note that Catherine Adeya was one of the few active 
> CEOs on KICTANET.
>
>
> http://www.nation.co.ke/business/Blow-as-acting-Konza-techno-city-boss
> -quits/-/996/2604390/-/en3nyyz/-/index.html
>
> A top official who has been at the helm of the Konza Techno City 
> project has opted out amid claims of resource constraints and slow progress.
>
> Dr Catherine Adeya-Weya, who has been the acting chief executive 
> officer of the Konza Technopolis Development Authority for two years, 
> said she had decided to quit and let someone else come in and lead the project.
>
> It was, however, clear from her statements that bureaucratic 
> tendering, resource constraints and the slow pace of takeoff had 
> largely influenced her decision.
>
> "I just felt someone else needs to take over this project after acting 
> for almost two years. I may have considered staying if confirmed, but 
> I may not have wanted it. For a project of this magnitude, we require 
> the right calibre of staff, and a proper and sufficient recurrent budget.
>
> ''What I was being paid as chief executive was less than what I used 
> to earn in my former role in the private sector and so it is hard to 
> attract the high calibre staff with that remuneration," Dr Adeya-Weya 
> said at a joint press conference in Nairobi with board chairman, Mr 
> John Ngumi, on Tuesday.
>
> *PERFORMED WELL*
>
> Mr Ngumi said Dr Adeya-We ya had performed well despite being in an 
> acting capacity for the entire period.
>
> He, however, added that the authority was prepared to continue with 
> the little available resources since insufficient funding was a normal 
> challenge in all government projects.
>
> The chief executive's term was to end in February, with an option to 
> apply when the position was announced in November last year.
>
> She, however, chose not to, sparking speculations around her 
> withdrawal from the team she has led for months.
>
> Mr Ngumi said: "In my view, Catherine has had one of the toughest jobs.
> Anybody who has worked in the private sector knows how hard it is to 
> start a startup. It is harder in the public sector where you have all 
> manner of stakeholders, and you got to deal with constraints and criticism.
>
> "She is an example of what we should have in public service and we, as 
> the board, would have loved her to apply. I have implored her to 
> remain involved in Konza at advisory role to the project."
> ______________________
> Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya
>
> "There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk 
> on higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson
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