<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>This is one of those things, with hind sight, either comes out as a stroke of genius or we get to ask ourselves, what were we thinking!<br><br></div>The difference is in the team that will and/or has already negotiated this and also will implement this. Get the right people in, we are ok, get certain characters in, and we've just made new Billionaires.<br>
<br></div>I would, looking forward, ask how this could lead to a local industry. It is time Safaricom or GoK pushed money to the local techie community to come up with solutions that could be used in the security industry. <br>
<br>Let them put out a bounty of Ksh 100M for the three most enterprising security solutions and you'll see what we could come up with.<br><br></div>As an example, Ma3route, currently just giving you crowd-sourced traffic updates, with a really good investment, it would be possible to source a lot more open source intelligence...<br>
<br></div><div>Finally, I hope GoK wakes up to the fact to seriously invest in building local technology firms. Its a lot easier to pull off such similiar deals as opposed to when you have to go through the RfP route only to get a foreign firm running your most sensitive of operations.<br>
<br></div><div>And for CAK, who thought they would be 'banning' Safaricom for dropping Voice calls, they could as well as forget it now. They've got friends in high places :-)<br></div><div><br></div>Regards<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Grace Githaiga via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Two months ago, at the height of terrorist attacks, State House made a call to Safaricom chief executive Bob Collymore.</p></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:ColfaxRegular,'AvantGardeGothicITCW01B 731069','Nimbus Sans TW01',Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:24px">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.600000000000001px;color:rgb(128,128,128);font-size:17px;font-family:Georgia,'ITC Century W01 Light';line-height:25px">Concerned that his government was losing grip of the situation, President Kenyatta wanted to know whether Safaricom would help security agents communicate better.</p>
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<a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Why-State-House-made-a-call-to-Safaricom-chief-over-insecurity/-/1056/2313756/-/ybd3dt/-/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Why-State-House-made-a-call-to-Safaricom-chief-over-insecurity/-/1056/2313756/-/ybd3dt/-/index.html</a></p>
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