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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Ali/Grace,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>We should not forget that KRA provided platform and the time for Samson to develop the innovation. Here is the case of shared IPR and Samson needs to be rewarded by KRA in light of the exceptional work he undertook and also given the right recognition. This sort of issue should have been managed by the Human Resources department properly, it is really a shame that it has gone to the courts, it is a serious loss of momentum for both the parties involved.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Baiju Shah<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Managing Partner<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Telemedia Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> kictanet [mailto:kictanet-bounces+baiju=tele2media.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ali Hussein<br><b>Sent:</b> 20 November 2012 14:26<br><b>To:</b> Baiju Shah<br><b>Cc:</b> kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Dreams of a cosy career that turned into a nightmare<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Grace<br><br>I guess that's the question the courts will answer as I believe this has already been taken up by lawyers for Samson. <br><br><a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/smartcompany/Dreams-of-a-cosy-career/-/1226/1623712/-/qdkj18z/-/index.html">http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/smartcompany/Dreams-of-a-cosy-career/-/1226/1623712/-/qdkj18z/-/index.html</a><br><br>I think though the bigger question is how are we preparing our young brilliant minds for the rough and tumble of starting and building sustainable businesses? <br><br clear=all></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"'>Ali Hussein</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"'>Twitter: @AliHKassim</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"'>Skype: abu-jomo</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Grace Githaiga <<a href="mailto:ggithaiga@hotmail.com" target="_blank">ggithaiga@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#333333'>Ali<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#333333'>Does the innovation belong to the employer considering it may have been developed to suit the needs of the employer? This might be open to various interpretations by different lawyers. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#333333'>This caught my attention:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#333333'>"According to the letter, KRA has used the technovation and communicated it to a third party, although the law states that this entitles the technovator to “a remuneration which shall be fixed by mutual agreement between the technovator and the enterprise.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#333333'>This is because KRA went ahead to submit the system to an international innovation fair, where it won an award. It has since publicised the award, even on its website".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333'><a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/smartcompany/KRA-caught-up-in-Sh1-billion-tender-row/-/1226/1623708/-/item/2/-/rpgfcm/-/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/smartcompany/KRA-caught-up-in-Sh1-billion-tender-row/-/1226/1623708/-/item/2/-/rpgfcm/-/index.html</a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal>From: <a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke" target="_blank">ali@hussein.me.ke</a><br>Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:58:01 +0300<br>Subject: [kictanet] Dreams of a cosy career that turned into a nightmare<br>CC: <a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:ggithaiga@hotmail.com" target="_blank">ggithaiga@hotmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Listers<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>This is an interesting case study of the link between employer/employee relations on Intellectual Property. Who owns the IP when you invent/innovate while working at a company and the invention/innovation is directly linked to the work you have been hired to do?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p style='text-align:-webkit-auto'><b>IN SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></b></p><div><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-align:-webkit-auto'>When Mr Samson Ngengi beat thousands of applicants to land the coveted position at the tax agency in December 2009, the graduate of Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology (JKUAT) had one thing on his mind; to ensure that he gets absorbed into the job<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-align:-webkit-auto'>Mr Ngengi came up with an innovation that links plot boundaries and location, ownership, and building details as well as tax status of a taxpayer as a single view in a computer application, in an effort to give KRA an insight into how to get its pound of flesh from the lucrative real estate sector<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-align:-webkit-auto'>His innovation was named the Geo-spatial Revenue Collection Information System (GEOCRIS). But little did he know that he would, early in his career, find himself fighting his employer<o:p></o:p></li></ul><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Is there a strong case here to also focus our Techpreneurs on the 'softer' stuff of turning their ideas/products etc into viable businesses? You know the boring stuff...the nuts and bolts of building an enduring business? Protecting your business idea, building a business system to deliver on the values opposition, sales, legal standing (company registration) etc..<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>What would have happened if Samson had decided to quite his job at KRA and develop his idea independently?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>There has been lots of news of late about the hype that has become known as 'Silicon Savannah'. It would be sad if the hype is not concurrently followed by serious efforts to build an ecosystem to support all these brilliant (and not so brilliant) ideas and turn them into strong enduring businesses. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>For every Cellulant there are maybe tens of others that will never see the light of day. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>There is a case here for a new type of Multi-stakeholder intervention - between government, private sector (VC, Companies etc) and Not For Profits. I suspect this is already happening in some form or other. More focus is required.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Ali Hussein<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>CEO | 3mice interactive media Ltd<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Principal | Telemedia Africa Ltd<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>+254 773/713 601113<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from my iPad<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list <a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a> <a href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet" target="_blank">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet</a> Unsubscribe or change your options at <a href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/ggithaiga%40hotmail.com" target="_blank">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/ggithaiga%40hotmail.com</a> The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. 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