<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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