Also consider instituting continuous improvement strategies,
something that is alien to government agencies
Edwin
From:
kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke
[mailto:kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On
Behalf Of robert yawe
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 12:40 PM
To: Edwin
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General
Hi,
Will know what needs to be done to get PCK back on track,
what we need is to get on the inside and implement this issues.
The sooner I can get myself appointed as PMG of PCK then
sooner we can truly implement e-commerce.
Regards
Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya
Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
From: Rad!
<conradakunga@gmail.com>
To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Mon, 8 November, 2010 11:20:56
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General
This is where Posta needs to think outside the box.
Trying to compete with email (official correspondence e.g.
bills, statements), facebook (personal correspondence e.g. letters, penpals
etc) and MPesa (no more mailing of cheques) is folly.
To re-invent itself Posta needs to realize that the one
thing you cannot send via email is physical goods.
How many businesses are based on a model of physical goods?
Enter Posta. There is a significant opportunity in
delivering goods from A to B. This is very difficult because finding A and B is
problematic. We cannot depend on a system of landmarks to describe locations of
businesses and houses. The problem is thanks to lethargic officials in
charge of planning urbanization across Kenya is by and large unplanned. This
bell cannot be un-rung. Some of these landmarks have deeply historical
knowledge. For example the NOCK stage on Haile Selassie is still called Agip.
Others depend on other locations.
Given that Posta has a good physical presence across Nairobi
why shouldn't they undertake their own initiative to map the physical location
of their customers? It would be folly to depend on City Councils more
preoccupied in throwing chairs. In any case, Posta should be doing KYC anyway.
This would yield valuable information that would not only
aid in their operations but can also be exposed to end users and consumers
either directly or via some sort of API for courier companies to build
solutions around receipt and dispatch.
Given also that Posta has a large fleet of vehicles and
physical presence across Kenya a model of physical delivery of goods is one
they should be able to easily step into and compete favourably with the likes
of DHL.
In a nutshell this will yield the following opportunities
- Fostering of an e-commerce industry in kenya with a closed
buyer-seller loop (that is currently very open,hindering the same)
- Partnering with e-comerce businesses, a new revenue stream
- Increased business in the parcel delivery & courier
sector, increased revenue stream
- Enhanced productivity, since with mapped customers routes
and deliveries can be optimized, saving costs
- Sale of data - other couriers and businesses can pay for
access to this data, a new revenue stream
- Fostering development of B2B systems - with an API anyone
can access this data programatically (for a fee) and use this platform to build
additional solutions, a new revenue stream
Everyone is a winner!
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com>
wrote:
If Posta was serious about remaining relevant they would
grasp the opportunity to develop and run a physical addressing system for
Kenya.
@Rad!,
The physical addressing system: Isn't this the same thing
that Kanjo already started, albeit so badly? If Kanjo's was the pilot project
for Kenya, then I must say it's awful. It may not be surprising that some
officials from Kanjo went for overseas trips to learn how the physical
addressing+Post Codes is supposed to be done, only to come and do an awful one
for Nairobi!
I think that "physical addressing == Post Codes",
right? Can this be done by Posta without involving the Kanjo's of other towns
in Kenya? With the poor infrastructure that we have in this country, I still
wonder how Posta would deliver mail to my rural home, when I cannot even drive
there myself, because the govt expects me to build the roads I need to use!
--
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254733744121/+254722743223
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