On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:56 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
McTim, You should have raised that issue over 4 months ago when the Kenya ICT Board invited interested parties to send a proposal for the development of ICT incubators.
I did point it out to the WB, rather too obliquely perhaps.
Just like with chicken egg incubators you cannot have too many,
I think that is an empirical question. every year
our institutions of higher learning pour out thousands of graduates who need somewhere to develop their skills. An incubator only hatches the chicks after that they are supposed to take in new eggs. If the chicks are allowed to stay in the incubator then it purpose and objective are defeated. As had been indicated the funding was to come from the World Bank or some other donor. What do you suggest that the KICT Board should do with those funds?
They would have to give it back if it came from a donor. If it didn't, it seems that some money needs to be spent to persuade ISPs to deploy IPv6, so maybe they could use it for dual stack CPE software. It would be quite a coup for kenyan coders to do this.
Can you please also furnish us with some of the ICT incubators in Kenya
Off the top of my head there is: Strathmore NaiLab UoN/ihub/InfoDev/emobilis ictpark.com KIRDI -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel