[kictanet] How to destroy value and the Ecosystem at Silicon Savannah

Tue Nov 24 15:03:30 EAT 2015

Agreed Mr. Ali,

Further to that, tech and Innovation is a national issue. We all need to
work together to build a great nation. This is why we wrote this:
https://letafricainnovate.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/lets-not-destroy-our-achievements/

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Hi Ali,
>
> Many thanks for this incisive and timely write up.
>
> 1. It is an unfortunate state of affairs  and many of us have chosen
> to bury our heads in the sand because of the relationships we have
> with the protagonists. To use a laymans analogy, it is a bad dream, be
> that as it may, joy will come in the morning.
>
> 2. This scenario has become common in the ICT Eco-system. As
> stakeholders we need to deliberately and intentionally invest in
> learning a few things about Corporate governance. For those who have
> been following developments in the industry, you can actually identify
> organizations in the Public, Private Sector and Civil Society that
> have gone through serious challenges due to corporate governance
> issues despite immense goodwill and talented membership. Indeed as
> techies or tech oriented people we need to move away from the back
> office and embrace front office as well as management
> /governance/finance related issues.
>
> 3. As a member of the Joint Technical Commitee 93  on IT Security at
> Kenya Bureu of Standards, we have been working on Standards
> application for Cloud Computing Service providers, we realized that
> none of the companies locally have actually deployed this standards
> yet they would have addressed and mitigated the issues faced by Angani
> which extended to the companies customers. That said we have learnt
> very important lessons as a tech community. The Standards should be
> available for purchase at the Kenya Bureu of Standards library soon
> and we encourage listers to invest in the same especially cloud
> service solution providers.
>
> 4. Finally i also encourage our colleagues involved to find an
> amicable way out of the quagmire. As a community, let us take the
> conciliatory path and avoid blogging rumours which are creating more
> confusion.
>
> My ten cents for now
>
> Regards
> On 11/24/15, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> wrote:
> > Listers
> >
> > I'm sure by now most of us have read about the goings on at Angani. There
> > has been a very loud and noticeable silence on this list regarding this
> > issue. I suspect mainly because many of us know the protagonists and
> > possibly also (at least I'd like to believe) that this list has become
> more
> > responsible on what we all write and share. However I think we must be
> very
> > vocal for the right reasons. Through out all this unfolding events two
> key
> > constituents seem to have been almost forgotten:-
> >
> > 1. The Customer
> > 2. The Community (or ecosystem if you will)
> >
> > In my own small way, I'm standing to be counted for the above.
> >
> >
> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-destroy-value-ecosystem-silicon-savannah-ali-hussein-kassim?published=u
> >
> >
> > *Ali Hussein*
> >
> > *Hussein & Associates*
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
> >
> > Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely
> > mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the
> > organizations that I work with.
> >
>
>
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