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We are not yet as exposed as we need to be to compete a global level.
Wish more Kenyans could access the Microsoft and Google Tech High
Quality (HQ) educational videos - (a 1 hour HQ Video is about 1GB).
Now, it will cost a Kenyan (on the mobile networks we use) to stream or
download a 1 hr HQ Video the same as it costs Korean, Japanese or
Western students download or stream 60 (GB) to 80 (GB) HQ educational
(or entertainment) videos per month. The US, Europe and Asia do not use
expensive mobile networks for their large downloads (60GB-100GB
monthly) but ADSL or Fibre. <br>
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If Orange soon provides bandwidth of up to 1Mbs @ 4K-6K allowing
monthly downloads of up to 30GB to begin with - they will win the SOHO
/ SME (data) market. If Safaricom builds their own Fibre Optic Network
before Orange styles up .... Keep and Watch your Safaricom shares! <br>
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Rad! wrote:
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type="cite">I was a judge at the Imagine Cup and I must confess that i
was extremely disappointed. The eventual winner was a contestant from
Ethiopia that developed a heart monitoring system that interfaced with
hardware that connected to a patient's chest via electrodes to measure
the heart rate and predict when a heart attack was imminent. It would
plot the hearbeat on the wearer's phone. It would then send the
location of the wearer via his phone through GPRS to the nearest
hospital that would use the GPS coordinates to map out a route for the
ambulance to the patient.<br>
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Contestants from Kenya i am ashamed to say were presenting Library
systems and their ilk.<br>
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I was very taken aback at this disconnect.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Walubengo
J <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com">jwalu@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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valign="top">i agree. its not awareness...i remember pushing another
similar challenge from Microsoft, "Imagine Cup 2009" at Multimedia
University. It got a serious mute response...i think our students from
primary school are drilled to focus on and pass exams....anything that
has little or no impact on their exam tends to be neglected. <br>
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We seem to have failed to cultivate a culture of intellectual
"activism" in our education system. When I was growing up we used to
have something called "science-congress" where all high-schools would
compete from district, provincial and finally national level to
show-case their innovations. Not quite sure if this still happens...<br>
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