<div dir="ltr">Why not target government officials at a generational level. Think about Denis Itumbi. <div><br></div><div>Fellow is Gen Y, open minded, and a beneficiary of the current <a href="http://go.ke">go.ke</a> favoring his/local talent.</div><div><br></div><div>Few of us really understand how well he opposed foreign/biased interference in Kenyan affairs.</div><div><br></div><div>This is one way to get a decent policy to build up local IT firms pushed at State House. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Murigi / Stanley Muraya</div><div><br></div><div><span style="line-height:13px;color:rgb(0,19,32);font-family:Trebuchet,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(253,254,255)"><span style="background-color:rgb(253,254,255)"><span style="line-height:20px"><font size="1"><b>"Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city." Prov 16:32</b></font></span><span style="font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(253,254,255)"><br></span></span></span></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Mbugua Njihia via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</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"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"></font><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px">It is a hard task running an organization representative of industry, especially when those represented are reluctant to support the same and would much rather lament on social media, become armchair critics or worse still suffer in silence. The downside to this state of things is that it feeds the corruption and broker culture that builds an impermeable wall between the larger industry, making access to legislation, or other positive industry action impossible. Such is our condition in the silicon Savannah.</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">More here - <a href="http://www.mbuguanjihia.com/business/lobbying-necessity-not-choice.html" target="_blank">http://www.mbuguanjihia.com/business/lobbying-necessity-not-choice.html</a></font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.mbuguanjihia.com/business/lobbying-necessity-not-choice.html" target="_blank"></a></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br clear="all"></div><div><div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div></div></div>
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