<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html><head> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head>Aki,<br/>I wish I knew your full name because you write as if you are in the Konza Team. Nevertheless, you will be happy to know that prospective tenants are exactly what you propose.<br/><br/>An agricultural research organization wants a 50 acre campus. Three well established International hospitals want space for research and medical tourism. An International agro processing company want 100 acre campus for its worldwide operations. Two IT companies need laboratories there. Major hotel chains want to establish there. The convention centre is gone to KICC, we shall bid for the Malls because we have more than 10 groups interested, same for the stadium. All this happening even before we advertise. God is simply with us.<br/><br/>Back to agriculture. On my way back from Kisii I passed through Transmara and Narok. I was happy and sad at the same time. Happy that we have a bumper harvest here. Maize and wheat in every space you look at. Sad that the farmers are using rudimentary methods to dry and fight afflatoxins. They are incurring heavy losses due to wastage caused by annimals and spillage. They need buyers.<br/><br/>We should not entirely blame the Government for a disfunctional supply chain especially now when most of our people are facing startvation. I am one of the people who advocates for non intervention by government when the markets are there. If you look for the so called Private sector, they not in town. They are in Mombasa trying to clear GMO for fgamine relief.<br/><br/>On the part of Government, I shall deal with my counterparts tomorrow. These farmers need mordern driers to create uniformity and avoid wastage. It will not cost much to have mobile driers (even though the private sector can do it). I am aware the Government subsidized seed and ferterlizer but farmers being Kenyan lie about this. Will check on this.<br/><br/>We have had the best Government leadership in Africa since 2003 but we have refused to take advantage of it and impact our own lives. There will b ecome a time when we shall wish. If you need to sustain the momentum let us talk about my "candidacy".<br/><br/>One Kenya. Keep hope a live.<br/><br/><br/>Ndemo. <br/><br/><br/><br/><p>Sent from my BlackBerry®</p><hr/><div><b>From: </b> aki <aki275@gmail.com>
</div><div><b>Date: </b>Sat, 6 Aug 2011 22:51:49 +0300</div><div><b>To: </b>KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke></div><div><b>Cc: </b><bitange@jambo.co.ke></div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [kictanet] Bitange for President? Driving KnowledgeEconomy?OnlineInterviewwith
PS Ndemo</div><div><br/></div><div>Dear Dr Ndemo,</div><div> </div><div>Thank you very much for the invite and I appreciate it. I do apologise that unfortunately at this time and until I can individually ( these are personal challenges ) comeup with tried and tested/successful technology ideas or solutions that I hope can or will have national or regional impacts, I'd like to keep my involvement on such. However, if at any time soon when there is a creation of e.g. the Konza Technology Action Group which would be a specialised unit of various economic and technology consultants sharing knowledge on regional markets that is going to achieve bringing various goals and targets together, I'd like to participate if any input is needed from me. Í have various knowledge in technology sectors and am going to start to look at agricultural engineering and see what the bridge is between this and e.g. ICT software development. There is a key development area here but I'm missing the links, will share my findings incase they are helpful to those interested in regional goals. </div>
<div> </div><div>Konza seems the island that we may help to move Kenya to the next level. Usually there is brain drain because many in developing countries cannot find avenues to commit their mental capacities within such countries so end up elsewhere. I believe Konza should be a representation of reversing brain drain for many kenyans. </div>
<div> </div><div>I hope someone else will be able to attend and take up the invite opportunity. </div><div> </div><div>Thank you. </div><div> </div><div>Rgds.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 9:01 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;" class="gmail_quote"><u></u> Aki,<br>We are meeting Konza Technology City possible underwriters (local Banks) on Monday morning 7am at Serena. Please come. Many of the quesions you ask will be answered then you can make a summary for the listers.<br>
<br>Regards<div class="im"><br><br><br>Ndemo.<br><br><p><br> </p></div></blockquote></div>
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