<div dir="ltr">If I ever have a chance to sit down with Dr Ndemo I will ask just *one* question:<div><br></div><div>You were in Government as the PS ICT for 10 years, with a golden chance to formulate the policies that you are now saying we need. Yet, you wasted that chance and if anything, oversaw the domination of the Kenya ICT scene by foreign firms, implementing products & services that could have been done here and also oversaw the abolishing of the import tax on software, that is needed to shield the nascent software industry and hence exporting even more Kenyan jobs to those countries like India, who probably need them more than we do!</div>
<div><br></div><div>So, what has changed now? Is this a case of Saul converting on his way to Damascus?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Would that be *one* question?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Waithaka Ngigi</div><div>A1.iO</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Dorcas Muthoni <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmuthoni@gmail.com" target="_blank">dmuthoni@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">A good piece by Dr. Bitange Ndemo<div><br></div><div><b>We must be more pragmatic to resolve Kenya's high unemployment<br>
</b></div><div><a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/-/1959700/2077756/-/oodsogz/-/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/-/1959700/2077756/-/oodsogz/-/index.html</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br>Muthoni<br><br>My Blog: <a href="http://rugongo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://rugongo.blogspot.com/</a><br>--------------------------------------------<br>Mahatma Gandhi once said:-<br><br>First they ignore you,<br>
Then they laugh at you,<br>Then they fight you,<br>AND THEN YOU WIN!!!
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