<html><body><div style="color:; background-color:; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>Hi<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Kivuva wrote:<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Dennis, you should not give the government such ideas. They are on<br>this list. Your email should have read "in the end, a frustrated<br>government will enter into a multi-billion contract with University
of<br>Nairobi and JKUAT to mass produce low cost subsidized FTA decoders,<br>and Kenyans would have won the battle, won the war, created thousands<br>of employment, and tilted the balance of trade". ...If Dr. Ndemo was genuine and was playing for the<br>best interest of Kenya, this is the path he should have advised the<br>government to take.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">----------------------<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;">I remember in 2011 Dr Ndemo challenged the universities to take the initiative of locally producing the STBs in readiness for the June 2012 migration deadline. Evidently, the dons did not find this attractive. <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Below is an excerpt of an article (published on 19 January 2012) from http://www.biztechafrica.com/article/digital-migration-will-kenya-meet-deadline/1764/?country=kenya</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color:
transparent; font-style: normal;">"To make the set-top boxes affordable for Kenyans, the Government had
approached The University of Nairobi to come up with a prototype and the
plan was to have local entrepreneurs to manufacture in mass."</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">So the Huwaweis will now benefit as we keep chanting "tunaomba serikali ...". <br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Kind regards,</span></div><div> </div><div><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 191);"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Jotham Kilimo Mwale</span><br><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,
0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div> <br> <div>----- Original Message -----<br> From: Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com><br> To: jokilimo@yahoo.com<br> Cc: Kictanet Mail list <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 11:54 AM<br> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Digital migration and mass ignorance<br> <br>It seems the GoK is bowing to pressure and going towards the direction<br>of subsidized the set boxes.<br><br>Dennis, you should not give the government such ideas. They are on<br>this list. Your email should have read "in the end, a frustrated<br>government will enter into a multi-billion contract with University of<br>Nairobi and JKUAT to mass produce low cost subsidized FTA decoders,<br>and Kenyans would have won the battle, won the war, created thousands<br>of employment, and tilted the balance of trade".<br><br>I have
been a fun of Dr. Ndemo's thesis for long, but this time round,<br>he's gone off-course. If Dr. Ndemo was genuine and was playing for the<br>best interest of Kenya, this is the path he should have advised the<br>government to take. We still have time to be producers, till 2015. The<br>revenue generated from such ventures would even fund the several<br>projects the government is running like JKIA expansion, power<br>stations, roads, e.t.c.<br><br>I have had the privilege of touring several Chinese manufacturing<br>companies, and I can assure you these factories littering our country<br>with fake gadgets are not grand, and the initial capital is just<br>several millions.<br><br>Fellow Kenyans, let me give you unsolicited advice. Seeking foreign<br>help to build roads, bridges, airports, harbours, and buildings is a<br>sign of mental retardation, yet we have perfected the art.<br><br>Thank you @song.stephen, we at BoP don't even know if we pay
taxes.<br>Whenever major infrastructure projects are being undertaken, we see<br>EU, World Bank, USAID, DFID, e.t.c.<br><br>Regards<br><br>On 20/12/2012, Dennis Kioko <<a ymailto="mailto:dmbuvi@gmail.com" href="mailto:dmbuvi@gmail.com">dmbuvi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> In the end, a frustrated government will enter into a deal with Huawei to<br>> mass produce and import low cost or subsidised FTA decoders, and Huawei<br>> will make millions in profit and Kenyans will have won the battle and lost<br>> the war.<br>><br>> Somehow related, voter registration took 30 days. On day 30, huge queues<br>> were seen at centres at 8 pm, way past the 6 pm closing time for the<br>> exercise. For the other 29 days, clerks were idle, Facebooking and soaking<br>> in sun at the registration centres as few bothered registering.<br>><br>> Meanwhile, I shall laminate this epic piece and hang it on a wall, to<br>> remind me
that millions in the country have no access to 2G, despite 2G<br>> been the base of all GSM networks.<br>><br>>> Thanks for thinking for consumers in a more broad and realistic spectrum<br>>> (including rural proletariats) beyond the minority but noisy middle to<br>>> higher income Nairobi CBD/Upper Hill techies who are obsessed about 4+G<br>>> when millions of others can't access 2-G. There is nothing like "mass<br>>> ignorance" or "mass intelligence" on a matter of human/consumer rights as<br>>> ably articulated within Consumer Protection Act, 2012 (which took effect<br>>> on<br>>> December 13).<br>><br><br><br>-- <br>______________________<br>Mwendwa Kivuva<br>For<br>Business Development<br>Transworld Computer Channels<br>Cel: 0722402248<br>twitter.com/lordmwesh<br>transworldAfrica.com | Fluent in computing<br>kenya.or.ke | The Kenya we
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