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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Thanks GG and Team. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>After WICKED, I’m taking the challenge to give a breakfast
talk (in Westlands) on this if I someone would take the challenge to
sponsor it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>OMO, j<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<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+omo=cck.go.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Grace
Githaiga<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 20, 2012 12:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Omo, John<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>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:
white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#333333'>Ali<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:
white'><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>
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white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:
white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#333333'>This caught my attention:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:
white'><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>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:
white'><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 class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:
white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#333333'>http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/smartcompany/KRA-caught-up-in-Sh1-billion-tender-row/-/1226/1623708/-/item/2/-/rpgfcm/-/index.html</span><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From: ali@hussein.me.ke<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: kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke<br>
To: ggithaiga@hotmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Listers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>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></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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background-position-y:2px'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>IN
SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-align:-webkit-auto'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>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></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-align:-webkit-auto'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>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></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-align:-webkit-auto'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>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></span></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>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></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>What
would have happened if Samson had decided to quite his job at KRA and develop
his idea independently?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>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></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>For
every Cellulant there are maybe tens of others that will never see the light of
day. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>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></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Ali
Hussein<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Principal
| Telemedia Africa Ltd<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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