Edith Thanks Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya 12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960 Fax: +254 20 2211962 website: www.ict.go.ke local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya twitter:@tandaaKENYA BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke personal contacts _______________ Cell: + 254 717 180001 skype: kukubopaul googletalk: pkukubo personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke personal twitter: @pkukubo ____________________ Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Edith Adera <[email protected]> wrote:
Paul,
See below - begins to answer some of your questions. How can we turn these fragmented efforts (noble as they are) to large scale efforts that begin to be felt at national level and touch the bottom line - economic growth. And how do we measure real outcomes of the efforts (not list of activities but outcomes).
Edith
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*Edith Ofwona Adera *
Senior Program Specialist
ICT4D Program and Climate Change & Water Program
International Development Research Centre | Centre de recherches pour le développement international
Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa
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------------------------------ *From:* [email protected][kictanet-bounces+eadera= [email protected]] On Behalf Of Edith Adera [ [email protected]] *Sent:* 12 January 2011 22:52
*To:* Edith Adera *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] {Disarmed} Re: Standing on the shoulders of giants
I agree we need to think large scale (BIG), which requires a bigger strategy (the point I was making earlier). Bw Ndemo has a point about individual responsibility working with others to innovate...but again Barack reminds us of the breakdown in social fabric (get rich quick...mentored by politicians and other "get-rich-quick-Kenyans). So we need "a new breed of young Kenyan innovators" with a different mentality from the norm......facilitated by an environment that will provide the "key drivers" to spur innovation. So the question is what are these drivers? (at large scale?). Andrea mentioned some of the drivers....finance, statutory incentives, IPR etc.
Last thought...why not create an environment where the young dictate the terms of the VC rather than Safaricom retaining 70%, what will it take to tilt the scale?
Edith
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*Edith Ofwona Adera *
Senior Program Specialist
ICT4D Program and Climate Change & Water Program
International Development Research Centre | Centre de recherches pour le développement international
Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa
Tel: +254202713160 | Fax/Téléc: +254202711063 | Skype: edithadera
[email protected] | www.idrc.ca | www.crdi.ca
------------------------------ *From:* [email protected][kictanet-bounces+eadera= [email protected]] On Behalf Of Muchiri Nyaggah [ [email protected]] *Sent:* 12 January 2011 19:58 *To:* Edith Adera *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] {Disarmed} Re: Standing on the shoulders of giants
Bw PS,
The potential to develop innovations that bring meaning to the lives of the majority are myriad. On a larger scale, do you have any ideas on how the private sector as well as the public sector (via policy etc) can 'incentivize' innovation for social good? I hope you don't mind my quoting you on an article we're working on about business models for BoP innovations.
Kind regards,
*Muchiri* Nyaggah
Director
@muchiri
+254 722 506400
Semacraft.com
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:34 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
The problem is not having a framework. Watch Social Network, how Zuckerberg created facebook. On his own, he could not have gone far. We need to work in teams providing different capabilities and simply be honest to one another. We cannot succeed if our consideration for capabilities is where you come from. We mus subordinate our individual interest and pride for the greater benefits that change society.
Ndemo.
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