<div dir="ltr">Ahmed,<div>They did not but in Korea everybody had to use the local products. To buy foreign, you had to pay extra. In fact even today only 1 in 10 cars on the road that is not Korean. The point I am making is that our problems emanate from the appetite of foreign goods. That is how we are not creating jobs. Freedom even in the most free states is relative. Our security now and in the future depends on what we do with unemployment. </div><div><br></div><div>Ndemo.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ultimateprogramer@gmail.com" target="_blank">ultimateprogramer@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"><div>Agreed with you bwana Ndemo 100%<br><br></div>But the point of all this is that the Koreans didn't come to force us to buy their units.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Bitange Ndemo via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Michael,<div>I have bought six of Taifa Laptops for students who come to me for help. They are happy with the product. I don't buy Taifa because it is cheap. I buy to support the growth of light electronic manufacturing industry in Kenya. We have bought garbage in form of tablets for many years from Asia. We effectively supported Asians to go through the learning curve. Today they dominate the sector. India is making the industry a priority and estimates show it will top more than $ 900 billion by 2020.</div><div><br></div><div>Before we criticism these noble efforts we must look back and correct our attitude. We supported Koreans perfect the Hyundai, Indians perfect the Mahindra, Japanese perfect the Toyota Mark II and Chinese perfect their electronic manufacturing capability. Kenya will not wake up one day and produce a perfect product without going through a learning curve. JKUAt has had to go through the learning curve since they produced their first computer, Madaraka with the support of the Ministry of Information and Communications. We have a collective responsibility to be part of the solution to our perennial problems of unemployment. Without the local market we cannot scale. Patriotism means we make certain sacrifices while giving constructive criticisms. Africa will never get out of poverty by being consumers of other people's products. Go buy Taifa and give some advise on what they need to improve. It has warranty and personally I have no problem with the lap top.</div><div><br></div><div>Ndemo.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Musya Michael via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Anyone using this laptop? Experiences so far?<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/08/22/parents-protest-jkuats-imposition-of-taifa-laptops-on-students_c1407693" target="_blank">http://www.the-star.co.ke/news<wbr>/2016/08/22/parents-protest-jk<wbr>uats-imposition-of-taifa-lapto<wbr>ps-on-students_c1407693</a><span><font color="#888888"><br><div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Regards,<br><br>Michael Musya.<br><br><br>I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.<br>Philippians 4:13</div></div>
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