<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Andrea, listers</div><div><br></div><div>Appreciated. Kenya hosts many local and international forums. These <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Include mobile boot camps, tandaa symposiums, tech meetings at the Ihub, and local universities, visits to local BPO operators, thought leadership sessions, training sessions by local and multinational firms, meetings with venture capitalists and funders etc, visiting scholars, launches of new ICT courses, launches or new products and services, etc. We host at least 2 visiting firms every week. </span></div><div><br></div><div>As an example just 2 weeks ago, there was the mobile marketing summit in Nairobi, last week there was the Innovation Africa Summit in Diani, this week east africa cyber security meeting in Mombasa. Different ICT issues, different expertise, different agendas: one goal, a more competitive ICT nation. The sector is diverse & busy and stakeholders have to pick and choose. </div><div><br></div><div>Let us stamp kenya on the global ICT map.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Paul Kukubo</div><div>Kenya ICT Board</div><div><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 30 Mar 2011, at 11:01, Andrea Bohnstedt <<a href="mailto:andrea.bohnstedt@ratio-magazine.com">andrea.bohnstedt@ratio-magazine.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Agree. I'd have liked to attend this - and a couple of others at the coast, too. But my time and travel budget are obviously limited. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 March 2011 10:25, Odhiambo Washington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:odhiambo@gmail.com"><a href="mailto:odhiambo@gmail.com">odhiambo@gmail.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 19:17, Paul Kukubo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pkukubo@ict.go.ke" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:pkukubo@ict.go.ke">pkukubo@ict.go.ke</a></a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Listers<div><br></div><div>As my team finalizes the report from the 1st Kenya ICT Board Summit in Bellagio, Italy. We had invited a team of 20 odd people from all over the world to revalidation of our value proposition. The team comprised BPO analysts and marketers, silicon valley venture capitalists, Europe based Venture capitalist invested here, representative from World Bank, country strategist from Malaysia, International blue chip firm executives representatives. from Kenya we had 3 firms (Seven Seas technologies, and Kencall) and a members of academia. The Permanent Secretary Dr Bitange Ndemo was in attendance.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I would like to highlight some of the key conclusions. We are already planning for Bellagio 2, next year same time.<br><br></div></blockquote></div><div><br>It's interesting how it's easy to "sell Kenya" outside Kenya. It's like selling online - you don't get to "see" what you are buying, but all the same, you need to have faith in the seller.<br>
I, too, take the devil's advocate position on this. Why Italy, and not Mombasa, Kenya? It could complement the efforts of KTB in selling Kenya as a tourist destination. If it was held here, it would also help to expose/unmask the challenges these investors will face locally - same ones that are being faced by entities in the same lines of business.<br>
</div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Best regards,<br>Odhiambo WASHINGTON,<br>Nairobi,KE<br>+254733744121/+254722743223<br>_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ <br>Damn!!<br><br>
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