[kictanet] Shifting Norms of Professionalization in a Nairobi Technology Start-Up Community

[Phares Kariuki]

There's a lot to unpack, but the one thing I'll comment on is this
perception that there's no talent locally. University students being unable
to work for your company without training is a feature of university
education, not a bug. You are given a broad based education with the
fundamentals that allows you to apply yourself wherever you see fit. This
idea that the student should be ready for your niche need confuses a
polytechnic for a university. A good CS education gives one the tools to
apply themselves to a variety of fields, not one unique use case. You can
specialize later. There's a lot of talent locally. Safaricom, JTL, Seacom
etc all hire local engineers to run their networks. You also have good
software development expertise, the likes of Pesapal, Innova etc all build
their software locally, from locally sourced graduates. There's a reason
why many CS graduates end up working in finance, banking etc. There are
fewer jobs for well trained CS graduates than they can fill.

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 6:45 AM, Bitange Ndemo via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23322373.2017.1400260 may
> interest you.
>
> Ndemo.
>
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Kigen Koech via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> Very intriguing indeed ...
>>
>> I believe that African innovation at the core are inspired with the need
>> to better the society through bridging the 'need-gap' whereas the foreign
>> template of entrepreneurship primarily focus on viability and
>> profitability, of which in is not entirely evil, though the failure thereof
>> would kill seeds of hope through technovation that may have intended to
>> solve a meaningful problem and thereby providing a foundation for more
>> solutions.
>>
>> If you look at the need and drive for some of these authentic kenyan
>> solutions; eatout, sendy, bunifu, illuminumgreenhouses etc among many more
>> others out there, i believe, stemmed out from a need to better their
>> environment and while at it saw the derived benefit to the end user.
>>
>> My thoughts on this.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> Kigen Koech
>> Business Development Manager
>> Telkom Kenya
>> 0770 800 800
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Sidney Ochieng via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>>> Shifting Norms of Professionalization in a Nairobi Technology Start-Up
>>> Community – Research Explorations https://angelaokune.me/2017/11
>>> /29/shifting-norms-of-professionalization-in-a-nairobi-techn
>>> ology-start-up-community/
>>>
>>> A great read that leaves me more questions than answers.
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Sidney
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