[kictanet] Taking the digital dividends to the constituencies for prosperity

Tue Jan 24 19:18:32 EAT 2017

Hi Colleagues,

Interesting conversation and developments, congratulations bwana
Waziri. However and In my humble opinion government should get its
priorities right, we have areas near Nairobi like Ole Polos and
Kisamese, 50 Kilometres from the CBD where connectivity is a major
challenge and i invite you to drive down to this area one of this
days. Students have to travel for 20 Kilometres to access Cyber Cafe's
since 2 G or 3 G on the mobile Network is unstable. The Huduma Centre
has been idle for more than one year due to lack of connectivity. Why
cant we ensure all Citizens have access to electricity and good
communication infrastructure?, its good to showcase success stories
from Europe but we must remember that they have the basics in place.

Regards

On 1/24/17, Tony White via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> Eric,
>
> I'm in full agreement with your suggestion - but this should be in
> addition to the '40 tablets'.  Raspberry Pis, whilst low cost, also
> need TVs as monitors, keyboards, mice, power supplies, cables.  It
> would be a maintenance nightmare!
>
> So - there should be 'maker space' provided in addition for mebbe 5
> Pis, with breadboards, components, and a RasPi teacher following the
> recently released curriculum for the RasPi.
>
> We can but dream ;)
>
> Cheers,
> Tony
>
>
> On 24/01/2017, Eric Mwangi via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> wrote:
>> While this cool - I was fortunate to sit with his team and talked about
>> Ajira and this particular project. However my suggestion then and still is
>> -
>> why not install Rasberrry PI's to create a development culture and cost a
>> fraction to tablets?
>>
>> Eric
>> www.vaultglobal.co.uk
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On 24 Jan 2017, at 12:59, Collins Areba via kictanet
>>> <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>
>>> Interesting read, I actually have a question:
>>>
>>> What is the current state of Business Process outsourcing in this
>>> country?
>>> I remember there was a time when this was a tune everyone was singing as
>>> justification for landing five (or is it six) submarine cables. A few
>>> years down the line, have these industries taken off? Is there
>>> quantifiable lessons to learn from these? Do the same , or more business
>>> opportunities exist for the same or different kind of platforms?
>>>
>>> On making access affordable and available, Would it make better sense to
>>> expand the mandate of Kenet? To somehow tap into their experience to
>>> have
>>> them extend internet to schools, polytechnics, etc, and provide more
>>> funding (government, USF, Private sector) in a single channel to manage
>>> delivery of connectivity to academia.
>>>
>>> My $2.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Ali Hussein via kictanet
>>> <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>> Listers
>>>>
>>>> An interesting article penned by our very own CS. Insightful and
>>>> needed.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Taking the digital dividends to the constituencies for prosperity
>>>>
>>>> I'm hoping that the Abdis, The Kamaus, The Karisa, The Poghishios, The
>>>> Omaris, The Nyachaes...(You get the drift..) in the farthest corners of
>>>> Kenya - From Wajir to Kakuma to Lamu will access Broadband everywhere
>>>> and
>>>> anywhere sooner rather than later.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ali Hussein
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>>>
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