<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"> Ngigi <div><br></div><div>Cant argue with your thought process. Just a small correction however. The explosion you have mentioned is happening right before our eyes. Despite Konza not being completed. In the last couple of years VC Investment in Kenya has surpassed the billion dollar mark. </div><div><br></div><div>Talk of Vitu Kwa Ground....<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Digital Transformation </b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">+254 0713 601113 </span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 2 Jun 2021, at 2:36 PM, Ngigi Waithaka <ngigi@at.co.ke> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Ali,<div><br></div><div>Our biggest problem is that we start our projects backwards.... The cart before the horse mantra!<br><br>When we travel and we see a solid city and/or area such as Shenzen, Silicon Valley <a href="http://et.al">et.al</a>, we quickly come back and want to build a similar city *without* first asking the hard questions; such as what *actually led* to the rise of those cities and regions? We just want to build new cities!<br><br>I once heard from a 'higher up' that once we build the walls & buildings at Konza and firms relocate there, we will see collaboration and explosion of Kenya inventions as we haven't seen before! I asked them to get a map of Nairobi and put a compass at the center, draw a 30KM radius and just about most higher education institutions & tech firms would be there and yet we don't see that 'explosion'. <br><br>And I highly doubt we'd see it by moving to a veritable desert.</div><div><br></div><div>IMO, disband Konza Technolopolis / Parastatal, it's currently eating Billions that could have much better use in our tech ecosystem etc . Give Konza land to some campus(es), give them 30-50 years (Yes, that much time) to build up and attract solid talent. Once we have that ecosystem, use reserved areas around it for expansion into tech hubs... <br><br>In the meantime, concentrate on building tech hubs & tech ecosystems & GoK funded investments around Nairobi, that's where the current ecosystem currently is... </div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 7:35 AM Ali Hussein 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:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">GG</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Thanks for sharing. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Listers, even the best-laid plans can miss their targets. I'd rather we discuss:-</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">1. What went wrong.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">2. What are the lessons to be learned.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">3. Can the project get back on track? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">4. Has it gone wrong? How long does it take to build a new city?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
Hussein</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Digital Transformation</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>T<font size="2">el: +254 713 60<font size="2">1113</font></font><br></span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>Twitter: @AliHKassim</span><span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>Skype: abu-jomo</span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span><a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"></span></a></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font></p><p style="font-size:small;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:georgia;color:black"><br></span></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span><br><font size="1">Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the organizations that I work with.</font></span></span></font><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif;font-size:11pt"></span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span>
<span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">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></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);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">https://restofworld.org/2021/the-failed-promise-of-kenyas-smart-city/</a></div><div>--<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><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">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">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">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">Facebook</a><br></div></div></div></div>
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