1: Ill jump into this albeit late and begin with a reference to a scriptural parable of the talents in Matthew 25. The moral being that to whom much is given, much is expected and the converse being true. as a rhetorical question (you can answer if you like), have you made maximum use of the two talents you were given to deserve three in round two. <br>
<br>2: It is indeed a positive thing that you would even consider a Ndemo Tosha because in the bigger picture of things, it would be a definate improvement from the status quo. I like that you have Ideas and visions about what can be needed to solve what, ICT indeed might be the holy grail in improving process and equalizing a lot of the bumps that are exploited by uncreative Kenyans for profit. <br>
<br>3: Onto my questions: Between Agriculture, ICT, Infrastructure and Manufacturing, how would you allocate say theoretically a 1trillion budget (just for these) and what would be the justification for leaning to which. The devil would be in the details but a rough estimate would show direction. <br>
<br>4: Mention something about a) somalia, b) Southern sudan, c) EPAs and d) Kyoto viz a viz cheap energy. <br><br>cheers... <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 11:31 AM, aki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aki275@gmail.com">aki275@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>I'd also like to add that govt policies and programs are the initial catalyst drive because the private sector is what it is i.e. does not fund research or development ( not in Kenya ). And for many decades economic policies have placed favour over import versus local development, we are at a stage today that it would probably takes us another 40-50 years to even design/produce the simplest semi-conductor available on the market today. The same design can be done at University levels in other countries. We are really at a tough place because if we don't fast track with imports, we will get left behind. And if we don't implement long term ways towards core development, we are bound to become literally a "sales,marketing and consultants" country which only has very short term benefits. Today, we give the chance to external partners to help with technology needs and systems, yet we are capable of creating or building upon these given the correct environment. It will be our biggest loss in future if we do not change course and take on the internal development segment with force and commitment. Just as the US identified itself as a major defense exporter economy thereby creating most of the advance systems-engineers-mulit-million dollar industries--highly educated employment, I think we also need to define what we want to do and how to get there. </div>
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<div>Starting at Sciences is really good, but would you kindly add what esle would be the catalysts towards creating and sustaining internal development?</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:43 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke" target="_blank">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left:#ccc 1px solid;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Aki,<br>You now can understand why we need to stop business and general degree<br>programmes. This is why we are more of traders than industrialists. I<br>
went to US for studies in the 1980's. In 1987 I was President of<br>International Students at the University of Minnesota. We were 5,000<br>foreign students in a student population of 120,000. The majority of<br>students were from Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore and Korea. Of the Asian<br>
students, 98% were in engineering courses the remaider were in creative<br>art degree program.<br><br>These countries became what we call Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs).<br>In economic comparative terms, they were behind Kenya. Today we buy<br>
everything from them. They manufactured nothing then. Infact we used to<br>love at the Hyundai Ponny that was first manufactured by Koreans.<br><br>We now must remove all fees for any student enrolled in science and<br>
creative degree programs. The rest can pay. When we started producing<br>more computer graduates, we started seeing application development in<br>Kenya to the extent that the world has started to recognize. Similarly,<br>
if we indeed want to industrialize, we must move to science. There are no<br>options.<br><br>India has just realized this and they are taking jobs from overheating<br>China. Our comparative advatange in this region is the human resource.<br>
Let us develop it, support it and guide it to the right direction.<br>Regional influence is what will matter in the days to come. As such we<br>must endeavor to see that Vision 2030 is realized in 2020. This is<br>possible.<br>
<br><br>Regards<br><br><br>Ndemo.<br>
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