<div dir="auto">they are the same people that advised microsoft to ignore android leading them to make a loss on the nokia aquisition </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 1 Jun 2021, 19:33 Grace Githaiga 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 dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><span style="background-color:rgb(243,247,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"GT Sectra",serif;font-size:21px">Listers</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(243,247,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"GT Sectra",serif;font-size:21px">This may be of interest to some here.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(243,247,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"GT Sectra",serif;font-size:21px">Rgds</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(243,247,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"GT Sectra",serif;font-size:21px">Grace</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(243,247,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"GT Sectra",serif;font-size:21px"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(243,247,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"GT Sectra",serif;font-size:21px">Kenya was one of the earliest countries to outsource its dreaming to McKinsey. The entire Vision 2030 strategy was developed by the Kenyan government in conjunction with McKinsey & Company, with Konza being one of many techno-utopian urban renewal projects the firm was involved in. </span><span style="background-color:rgb(243,247,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"GT Sectra",serif;font-size:21px">At first, most were undertaken in Asia, then, in the 2000s, the focus shifted to African countries, which were seen as growth markets for big tech and financial corporations.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(243,247,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"GT Sectra",serif;font-size:21px"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(243,247,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"GT Sectra",serif;font-size:21px">...</span><span style="background-color:rgb(243,247,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"GT Sectra",serif;font-size:21px">the McKinseyfication of government and federal services often means that the mere production of paperwork counts as progress.</span><span style="background-color:rgb(243,247,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"GT Sectra",serif;font-size:21px"> ...</span><span style="background-color:rgb(243,247,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"GT Sectra",serif;font-size:21px">The question then becomes, Who is responsible for the failure of Konza?”</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(243,247,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"GT Sectra",serif;font-size:21px"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(243,247,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"GT Sectra",serif;font-size:21px">Read on: </span><a href="https://restofworld.org/2021/the-failed-promise-of-kenyas-smart-city/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://restofworld.org/2021/the-failed-promise-of-kenyas-smart-city/</a></div><div>--<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Grace Githaiga</span><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">KICTANet Convenor</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">KICTANet portals</span><br></div><div><a href="https://kictanet.or.ke/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">KICTANet.or.ke</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/kictanet" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Twitter</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> | </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/18428106/admin/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">LinkedIn</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> | </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/KICTANet/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Facebook</a><br></div></div></div></div>
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