[kictanet] Taifa Laptop

[Bitange Ndemo]

Michael,
I have bought six of Taifa Laptops for students who come to me for help.
They are happy with the product.  I don't buy Taifa because it is cheap.  I
buy to support the growth of light electronic manufacturing industry in
Kenya.  We have bought garbage in form of tablets for many years from
Asia.  We effectively supported Asians to go through the learning curve.
Today they dominate the sector.  India is making the industry a priority
and estimates show it will top more than $ 900 billion by 2020.

Before we criticism these noble efforts we must look back and correct our
attitude.  We supported Koreans perfect the Hyundai, Indians perfect the
Mahindra, Japanese perfect the Toyota Mark II and Chinese perfect their
electronic manufacturing capability.  Kenya will not wake up one day and
produce a perfect product without going through a learning curve.  JKUAt
has had to go through the learning curve since they produced their first
computer, Madaraka with the support of the Ministry of Information and
Communications.  We have a collective responsibility to be part of the
solution to our perennial problems of unemployment.  Without the local
market we cannot scale.  Patriotism means we make certain sacrifices while
giving constructive criticisms.  Africa will never get out of poverty by
being consumers of other people's products.  Go buy Taifa and give some
advise on what they need to improve.  It has warranty and personally I have
no problem with the lap top.

Ndemo.

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Musya Michael via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Anyone using this laptop? Experiences so far?
>
> http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/08/22/parents-
> protest-jkuats-imposition-of-taifa-laptops-on-students_c1407693
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Michael Musya.
>
>
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