<div dir="ltr">The problem is with our systems too....when do we expose our youth to their true worth as developers?<div><div>Unfortunately, most Kenyans do not know their true worth until much later when exposed to the "big competitions"</div></div><div>It is upon our institutions to teach and expose our developers early enough</div><div>However, we can't run from the fact that due to the economics of the nation, most of the youth are yearning for opportunities and will jump</div><div>at any that comes their way...thats the life in Africa</div><div>Regards,</div><div>Ronald Ojino</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 12:42 AM Patrick A. M. Maina via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_8030431238072299845ydp8ac2262byahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><div></div>
<div><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px">A BPO stint during entry-level days can actually make someone a better software engineer, with improved soft skills, customer savvy as well as business acumen. </span></span></div><div><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px">The key thing is to be strategic about it... avoiding the "dumb BPO" work (e.g. keying in meaningless accounting vouchers on a single screen every day, forever..) and focusing on "smart BPO" work (e.g. multi-domain customer support, AI training etc). Jobs which impart potentially high-value skills / insights.</span></span></span></span></div><div><br></div><div>Developers who don't care about the meaning of data or the business issues being solved, risk turning into coders (which I think is a *horrible* heavily commoditized job). I think the code submission shops (modeled after Indian body shops)<span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px">, </span></span>whether online or institutional, are partly responsible for the suppressed wages. They have high incentive to underpay so they can maintain great margins from your work, which they keep for themselves. <br></div><div><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></span></div><div><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px">"Why buy the cow, if you can get the milk cheap/free?" That is what their customer is thinking when asked about direct engagement of Kenyans. Developers need to think hard about this. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px">You can't commoditize your skills and then expect to be paid a premium!</span></span><br></span></span></div><div><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></span></div><div>Unless you are desperate for cash, or want to gain experience, avoid the body jobs. You will waste many years of your life getting paid significantly less the *true worth* of your work. Job creation should be about *high value* jobs.<br></div><div><br></div><div>On our side we have to demonstrate high value and skill up (T shape) on multiple domains (engineering, one or two business domains and project management) according to international market needs so we can be branded globally, hopefully with Government support, as the go-to country for full-stack solution architects, business analysts and project managers - rather than coders/programmers. </div><div><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></span></div><div>Brand + Scarcity = Good Wages (Gov earns more taxes)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Commoditization + Oversupply = Poor Wages <span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px">(Gov earns less taxes)</span></span>.</div><div><br></div><div>Good evening listers!</div><div>Patrick.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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(There is still a few who work in institutional call centers such as Horizon or Daproim or Adept.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">***********************<br clear="none">Leila Janah the founder of Samasource is talking about $9 a day. In my days in Kencall we used to be paid $120 a month translating to about $4 a day.... this kind of why explains why a lot of people will prefer to work from home instead of in an institutional call center (less expenses and you make about double)... So yes the points of valuing ourselves and stopping self hate are very valid. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">That said - if Konza is still a project I hope they have iterated the business model over the years (initially it was all built on the promise of BPO)</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>***********************</div><div>Learning - Do you learn while training an AI? (BPO)<br clear="none">Yes - you learn about content. You learn about other contexts and you might learn about other subjects but it will not make you a developer and it will not give you any insights about how the machine you are feeding works or how it has been created... you are doing repetitive work and the eventual goal is that the system should be able to work without your input.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Do you learn in competitions?<br clear="none">I have found while a lot of ideas are valid and good - the work that goes into making them a reality and the learning that happens post competition is way much more than in the competition.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">My two cents for people taking part in competitions - just put in enough content to win the competition reserve the rest for boardroom meetings with investors and partners and reserve the secrets for you and your team - and the internal motivation for only yourself.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>I don't know if IP and copyright laws in Kenya are affordable enough for anyone to start patenting at idea stage... maybe to just apply for a patent but not follow through - it is not the priority of any startup at this stage. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">*****************************<br clear="none">Finally there are people working at the intersection of these two areas BPO (outsourced work) and Programming(development work)<br clear="none">A lot of them will work on platforms like Fiverr, PeoplePerHour and Upwork... (Does Apptank still exist?) there are fewer platforms for programming work than say writing, transcription, data entry and SEO work.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I think if we want to offer some protection - then these are the people we need to offer protection. <br clear="none">Some of these work platforms and even payment platforms such as Paypal will withhold money on grounds of location... this is really discriminatory... maybe that now Safaricom has a partnership with them it will improve their perception of Africa - I hope all this trade promotion we do will include this area... not just export of food produce or whatever else it is that we export nowadays.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_8030431238072299845ydpa7442a21yiv6859970665m_3694719116779562800gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>With kind regards</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Jeipea</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Believe in yourself then you can change your world</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>____________________________________________</div><div>Skype: john.paul.em</div><div>Cell: +254735586956</div></div></div></div><br clear="none"></div></div><br clear="none"><div class="m_8030431238072299845ydpa7442a21yiv6859970665gmail_quote"><div class="m_8030431238072299845ydpa7442a21yiv6859970665yqt8095147033" id="m_8030431238072299845ydpa7442a21yiv6859970665yqt35724"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 11:56 AM Clifford Derrick via kictanet <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="m_8030431238072299845ydpa7442a21yiv6859970665gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="direction:ltr">It’s nigh impossible to pay the bills in exposure :) but well, I think Ali put it very succinctly - let’s train our dev ops and technologists on how to better market and sell themselves on the global economy.</div>
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I’m a firm believer in Pan-Africanism and the fact that it is only Africans who can uplift themselves. Let’s not get caught napping by the ‘4th industrial revolution’...</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 13, 2018 9:09 am<br clear="none">
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<div dir="ltr">Just (very briefly) looked at the Samasource profile. They seem to be an educational non profit.
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<div>For 20 years now, have observed (researched) career progression of a good number of technologists in East Africa. Can say without reservation, the very few who become solid entrepreneurs (if not investors) over time (5 to 7 years) prefer (are convinced
by their value system) to work with locals, for our market (not the same as working in multi nationals). It is simply a matter of choice.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 8:00 AM Clifford Derrick via kictanet <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">
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<p class="m_8030431238072299845ydpa7442a21yiv6859970665MsoNormal"><span>Hi Barrack and Listers,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="m_8030431238072299845ydpa7442a21yiv6859970665MsoNormal"><span>I fully agree with this opinion, but before we throw rocks, let’s remember charity starts at home.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="m_8030431238072299845ydpa7442a21yiv6859970665MsoNormal"><span>It is quite vital to raise local standards and awareness on dev and engineering skills plus the remuneration package that comes with being very skilled in niche sectors. The global marketplace would be a good starting point but there
are certain ‘barriers of entry’ so to speak. If local companies pay software developers 15k a month to tirelessly slog over code, why would a Silicon Valley start-up come in and pay the chap over 20 times that? Yes, that would be the ethical thing to do but
most companies do not run on ethics. They run on P&L. There’s a reason low tier supply chain manufacturing jobs are shifting to Vietnam, Ethiopia and Bangladesh and away from the traditional hubs…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="m_8030431238072299845ydpa7442a21yiv6859970665MsoNormal"><span>Regards<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Barrack Otieno via kictanet<br clear="none">
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<b>To:</b> Clifford Derrick <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:clifford.derrick@liquidtelecom.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">clifford.derrick@liquidtelecom.com</a>><br clear="none">
<b>Cc:</b> Barrack Otieno <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</a>><br clear="none">
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<p class="m_8030431238072299845ydpa7442a21yiv6859970665MsoNormal">Hi Wainaina and listers,<br clear="none">
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Unfortunately we don't have a culture of rewarding local innovations<br clear="none">
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hesitating in tapping into it. I wish we could invest more into our<br clear="none">
Vocational Institutions and provide funding that would help our<br clear="none">
innovators in the Jua Kali space to scale up. That said i would be<br clear="none">
curious to hear what ndugu Ali who has been involved in the start up<br clear="none">
phase or Harry Hare have to say since i consider them authorities in<br clear="none">
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>> Kenya needs an "Intellectual Property Resources Act", which would<br clear="none">
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>> On Monday, November 12, 2018, 2:01:43 PM GMT+3, Wainaina Mungai via<br clear="none">
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