<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Agreed, but I think the issue should be to revamp what we have not build more, incorporate Workforce development in Secondary, Polytechnics, Universities for example what is listed below in a Community College that has a department they call the "Gudelsky Institute for Technical Education but which is still a part of the community college equivalent to a Polytechnic.</div><div>3D Printing as espoused by PS Ndemo will be key in making the revamped programs a success.</div><div>Innovation is certainly key in realizing Kenya's Vision 2030!</div><div><table width="700" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" summary="The Homer S Gudelsky Institute for Technical Education, Montgomery College, Maryland" align="center"><tbody><tr><td width="524" valign="top" height="100%"><p align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 5px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="14pixel">Gudelsky Institute for Technical Education</span> offers instructional programs in four (4) primary areas as listed above. Gudelsky Institute offers both credit and non-credit courses taught via classroom and lab training, on-site or off-site customized contract training, <a href="http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/giterv/about/apprenticeship.htm">apprenticeship training</a>, and long or short-term training.</span></font></p><p align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 5px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Many of the courses offered at Gudelsky Institute are <strong>co-listed, </strong>which means that a number of credit programs are also offered through Montgomery College's Workforce Development and Continuing Education (WDCE) program. Students pursuing a degree or a certificate should register for a credit class and students interested in enhancing their current skills or gaining some personal knowledge can register for either.</span></font></p><p align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 5px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you are interested in pursuing a career as an automotive technician, printing manager, computer technician, carpenter, or other technical trade, you should consider Gudelsky Institute for Technical Education at Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland.</span></font></p><p align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 5px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For more in-depth course information or to design a training program specific to your needs, click on the appropriate program below:-</span></font></p><p align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 5px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></p></td></tr><tr></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><a href="http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/giterv/">http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/giterv/</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Sent from my iPad</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br>On Dec 24, 2012, at 10:15 AM, Phares Kariuki <<a href="mailto:pkariuki@gmail.com">pkariuki@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#0b5394" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">If we need to focus on manufacturing, shouldn't we then, be building more polytechniques and less universities? </font><div><font color="#0b5394" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font color="#0b5394" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.africanexecutive.com/modules/magazine/articles.php?article=6985&magazine=418">http://www.africanexecutive.com/modules/magazine/articles.php?article=6985&magazine=418</a> last section of the article. </font></div>
<div><font color="#0b5394" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style=""><font color="#0b5394" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Vocational training is needed. </font></div><div style=""><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Kivuva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Kivuva@transworldafrica.com" target="_blank">Kivuva@transworldafrica.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Thank you Dr. Ndemo for spotting the elephant in the room.<br>
<br>
Mahatma Gandhi did his country good for preaching self sustainability.<br>
With proper implementation of brand Kenya initiative, we might use<br>
more local products and follow India's footsteps. Just remember, "the<br>
cowards never started, the weak died in the way, only the strong<br>
arrived. They were the pioneers."<br>
<br>
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire Said, "No problem can withstand the<br>
assault of sustained thinking." I think Daktari you are thinking in<br>
the right direction.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
On 24/12/2012, <a href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a> <<a href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a>> wrote:<br>
> Kivuva,<br>
> I am really having a terrible time with internet connectivity here in<br>
> India. It cost more than Ksh. 2,000 per an hour for a 512K link. By the<br>
> time I read a two page attachment, the time is over with no warning.<br>
><br>
> I want to thank you for reviving the local manufacturing issue. As Mwale<br>
> states, this where I started anticipating migration by 2012. We could not<br>
> get support in spite of Dr. Gachigi's effort to develop a prototype. I<br>
> personally went round talking to our industrialists. They wanted numbers.<br>
> I could not provide attractive numbers since this is a stop gap measure.<br>
> Instead I went round talking how we can leverage 3D printing to start<br>
> elevating Jua Kali Industries into local manufacturing without necessarily<br>
> getting into the economies of scale trap.<br>
><br>
> The good news is that Dr. Gachigi is still determined. Just recently I<br>
> wrote that he needed Ksh. 15 million to start local manufacturing of hand<br>
> sets. I went further and talked to two chip makers who have gracefully<br>
> accepted to give us their mobile handset platform. We have no investors<br>
> (risk takers) yet but it is going to work and we propel our country into<br>
> light electronic manufacturing. It needs the commitment of Kenyans to buy<br>
> local. Every 10 vehicles I count here in India, seven are local.<br>
> Actually even the foreign brands are manufactured locally. This not a<br>
> government problem but a serious cultural dilemma.<br>
><br>
> Ndemo.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
>> Dear Dr. Ndemo, wishing you a safe flight back home, and a quick<br>
>> recovery to your loved one.<br>
>><br>
>> Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you too<br>
>><br>
>> On 21/12/2012, <a href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a> <<a href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> Stephen,<br>
>>> I wanted to stay out of this till the ruling in court but I cannot keep<br>
>>> quiet when you tell the whole world lies on mobile penetration in Kenya.<br>
>>> Virtually every adult Kenyan has access to mobile in 2G. The fastest<br>
>>> growing market is broadband because of the growing needs by the poor to<br>
>>> get their produce to market or get the best pricing. This is what the<br>
>>> many applications that are being developed in Kenya will do. Rural<br>
>>> schools need the broadband most since education too is going e. While<br>
>>> mobile coverage in Kenya is at 90% (mostly 2G coverage), land mass<br>
>>> coverage stands at 40% with 80% mobile penetration. Mpesa is not for<br>
>>> the<br>
>>> rich like Mutoro but the poor and is accessible to 90% of the poor.<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> The need to migrate to 4G is critical in planning our broadband needs in<br>
>>> the next one year. For us to meet the projected demand we must get to<br>
>>> the<br>
>>> last mile. This means that getting to the poor since mot of the rich<br>
>>> have<br>
>>> fibre connevtivity to their homes.<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> I take great exception with your statements. My Key Performance Index<br>
>>> (KPI)is how many people in Kenya rich and poor have access to internet.<br>
>>> This is significantly different from your KPI of counting how many cases<br>
>>> you have taken to court over the perceived infringement of consumer<br>
>>> rights. While you can criticise me as a public servant, I am not able to<br>
>>> even know your funding sources and the motives for funding. I do not<br>
>>> question but this is what Kenyans are talking in low tones.<br>
>>><br>
>>> What we can do for now is to rephrase John F. Kennedy's quote to read<br>
>>> "ask<br>
>>> not what the poor may be wanting; ask what you have done to remove<br>
>>> poverty". Going to court purpoting to represent the poor is a bouguasie<br>
>>> cover up. Let us stand up for the poor and help eliminate poverty by<br>
>>> teaching them to navigate the high seas of technology and fish for their<br>
>>> sustainable living.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I am in India for some family medical case but I must report that Delhi<br>
>>> whose per capita income is lower than Nairobi, has fully migrated to<br>
>>> Digital. The poor are now enjoying watching TV in the languages they<br>
>>> understand (this is a requirement in our constitution). Three hundred<br>
>>> new<br>
>>> channels have come up including one helping consumers understand what is<br>
>>> in the market and how it compares with other competitors. Perhaps you<br>
>>> need to upgrade your approach to consumerism. Only technology will help<br>
>>> be more effective.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year my brother.<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> Ndemo.<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
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