<div dir="auto">I think there’s time to reimagine Konza to fit our own context and aspirations. A completion date of 2050 means it would be served well by tangible deliverables every medium term that connect with the local sector rather than a reliance on China and the West’s big tech firms to deliver big wins. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Muchiri</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 at 09:09, 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:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
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@Ali Hussein</a>. I like your point number 3 'can the project get back on track?'</div>
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Considering it was a vision 2030 project, can we say that that there are still 9 or so years to get it back on track?</div>
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most important office in a democracy is the citizen. So, you see, that’s what our democracy demands. It needs you!----Barrack Obama.</i></b></span></span><br>
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<b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sent:</b> 02 June 2021 7:33 AM<br>
<b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">To:</b> <a href="mailto:ggithaiga@hotmail.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">ggithaiga@hotmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:ggithaiga@hotmail.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">ggithaiga@hotmail.com</a>><br>
<b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Cc:</b> Ali Hussein <<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>><br>
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<div style="font-family:georgia,serif">1. What went wrong.</div>
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<div style="font-family:georgia,serif">4. Has it gone wrong? How long does it take to build a new city?</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 7:32 PM Grace Githaiga via KICTANet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div><span style="font-family:"GT Sectra",serif;font-size:21px;background-color:rgb(243,247,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">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="font-family:"GT Sectra",serif;font-size:21px;background-color:rgb(243,247,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">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>
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of government and federal services often means that the mere production of paperwork counts as progress.</span><span style="font-family:"GT Sectra",serif;font-size:21px;background-color:rgb(243,247,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> ...</span><span style="font-family:"GT Sectra",serif;font-size:21px;background-color:rgb(243,247,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">The
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