<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">It is encouraging to see that we are constantly seeing a increasing gender balance in the ICT field, the days of computer rooms full of male geeks are coming to an end.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">I applaud the team but would like to send them this message, concentrate on your core strengths which is the development of applications and outsource the rest, at least for now. </div><div
style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">This is in response to their response to a question by an interviewer where they indicate that they will use the price money to develop a corporate, read top heavy, structure and had already brought on board an accountant, marketer and I believe she said a HR person.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Entrepreneurs need to learn to spend their </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">scarce resources where they will have the greatest return, the rest will fall in place with time. This is the same reason why
during a past CIO Breakfast I suggested that to help Virtual City maximise on their US$ 1,000,000/- equity investment from Nokia we need to have local corporates "sindikisha" them in the harambee spirit. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">For example, Safaricom should sindikisha Nokia contribution to Virtual City with bandwidth, and collocation services, HP would throw in the cloud in a box and GOK offer office space and a 10 year tax holiday. If we did this then the US$1M from Nokia can be better utilised by Virtual City in developing the core solution and not on overhead.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">In
closing, kudos girls and we look forward to seeing greater things from you.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Regards <br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"> </font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Robert Yawe</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">KAY System Technologies Ltd</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Phoenix House, 6th Floor</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new
roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Kenya</font><br><br><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696<div><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Dorcas Muthoni <dmuthoni@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, 10 January, 2011 16:52:17<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [kictanet] Girls who created social network for farmers<br></font><br>Congratulations to Jamila and her
team!! These girls are going places... we are are very proud of you!<br><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Girls%20who%20created%20social%20network%20for%20farmers%20/-/1056/1085706/-/6c0qcjz/-/index.html">http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Girls%20who%20created%20social%20network%20for%20farmers%20/-/1056/1085706/-/6c0qcjz/-/index.html</a><br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Muthoni<br><br>My Blog: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://rugongo.blogspot.com/">http://rugongo.blogspot.com/</a><br>--------------------------------------------<br>Mahatma Gandhi once said:-<br><br>First they ignore you,<br>Then they laugh at you,<br>
Then they fight you,<br>AND THEN YOU WIN!!!<br>
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