[kictanet] Technology Think Tank

[Ali Hussein]

Ahmed

Interesting points you raise..

Th community certainly needs to do more for itself to ensure we remain relevant and increase the pie in regards to what percentage of GDP we contribute. It's the only way we will increase our relevance in a country that is still predominantly Agri based.

Listers, your thoughts?

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> On 5 Sep 2016, at 10:00 AM, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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> Listers,
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> So during the weekend there was some discussion with the tech community over things such as the implications for the visit of figures like Mark Zukerberg. And how as a market we need to respond to such visits and get the correct narrative out there, and create a conducive structure that allows for the conversion of these narrative to action points. But for such things to happen the very foundation needs to have a think tank.
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> The argument is that even if we do have the ICT Policy, honors is on us as a tech community to organize ourselves around how to consume that policy.
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> In a way Kictanet is doing well in this regard. Perhaps (and this is up for discussion), how do we take things a step further to not only discuss, but to journal (and expose these journals - and have a life cycle for these journals), over a period of time, such vital discussions. This also includes channeling trough Kictanet the correct discussion points. Inspiration can be borrowed from how Ali sometimes blogs for such things, but something a bit more stakeholder driven and a lot more neutral. It can also be once a month or on a need basis. Can be something digest, etc..
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