Thanks McTim for good insights<div><br></div><div>I still think it is too early to conclude though. Consider the following :-</div><div><ol><li>Strathmore - am not sure they have had time to graduate any incubatee as yet (any updates?)</li>
<li>NaiLab has not taken off as yet. Their space (on the 4th floor of Bishop Magua house?) is still an empty hall. </li><li>mLab (infoDev, iHub, UoN, Web Foundation, eMobilis) is still at infancy. Currently building out on the empty space on the 3rd flr of Bishop Magua House. </li>
<li><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://ictpark.com/" target="_blank">ictpark.com</a> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">(Any updates on some graduates will help)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.kirdi.go.ke/Departments/TechnologyTransferExtensionServices/ICTIncubation.aspx">KIRDI</a> - (Any updates on some graduates will help)</li></ol><div>Perhaps you mean that the above and other incubation programs are founded on wrong premises. Otherwise am thinking we could do with a little more time before ruling out the option of increasing business incubation services for the ICT sector. Remember a while back we had Bwana PS chastise us on the need for youth to embrace entrepreneurship. Perhaps these incubation services are the required impetus to entrench the required entrepreneurship culture. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Best Regards</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 3:43 PM, McTim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:56 PM, robert yawe <<a href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> McTim,<br>
> You should have raised that issue over 4 months ago when the Kenya ICT Board<br>
> invited interested parties to send a proposal for the development of ICT<br>
> incubators.<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>I did point it out to the WB, rather too obliquely perhaps.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
> Just like with chicken egg incubators you cannot have too many,<br>
<br>
</div>I think that is an empirical question.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
<br>
every year<br>
> our institutions of higher learning pour out thousands of graduates who need<br>
> somewhere to develop their skills. An incubator only hatches the chicks<br>
> after that they are supposed to take in new eggs. If the chicks are allowed<br>
> to stay in the incubator then it purpose and objective are defeated.<br>
> As had been indicated the funding was to come from the World Bank or some<br>
> other donor. What do you suggest that the KICT Board should do with those<br>
> funds?<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>They would have to give it back if it came from a donor. If it<br>
didn't, it seems that some money needs to be spent to persuade ISPs<br>
to deploy IPv6, so maybe they could use it for dual stack CPE<br>
software. It would be quite a coup for kenyan coders to do this.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Can you please also furnish us with some of the ICT incubators in Kenya<br>
<br>
</div>Off the top of my head there is:<br>
Strathmore<br>
NaiLab<br>
UoN/ihub/InfoDev/emobilis<br>
<a href="http://ictpark.com" target="_blank">ictpark.com</a> <br>
KIRDI<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
--<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
McTim<br>
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