<div dir="auto">Hello,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My overall sense is that Konza gets unfairly beaten up, by us commentators most of the time. To begin with, the project is very young compared to the likes of Shenzhen, which became an SEZ in 1980, 41 years ago. The problem arises when our planning and implementation horizon is too short. Even 10-15 years is too short for an objective appraisal of failing or succeeding. I think questions about the progress thus far can be more valid than a declaration that the project has failed.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My 5 pence.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">Sent on the move ...<br>Blog: <a href="https://kieti.org">https://kieti.org</a><br>Whatsapp: +254735764242<br>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnKieti">https://twitter.com/JohnKieti</a><br>LinkedIn: <a href="https://ke.linkedin.com/in/kieti">https://ke.linkedin.com/in/kieti</a></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 2 Jun 2021, 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:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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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<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" rel="noreferrer">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br>
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<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>
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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
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