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

Wed Dec 6 10:42:26 EAT 2017

@Phares

My point exactly.. Well put. Spoken like 10 wise men. :-)

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On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Phares Kariuki via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> 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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