Dear All, IBM is out to make Konza Tech City a reality through support of ICT human capacity building in cutting age technologies. See press release xhttp://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/40255.wss Regards Dr Wafula Sent from my iPad On Jan 30, 2013, at 9:48 AM, Walubengo J <[email protected]> wrote:
@ Yawe,
I discovered your critical soul mate below:
By Mr Owino is the CEO, Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA-Kenya) Posted Monday, January 28 2013 at 19:40 In Summary Tech city will cost over $8.5bn and create 200,000 jobs: is this reasonable spending relative to alternatives? Two days ago, the leading news item in the print and electronic media was the formal launch of the Konza Technology City by President Kibaki. To many, it was the beginning of the quest to establish the equivalent of Silicon Valley, hence the name Africa’s Silicon Savannah.
read on @
http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion---Analysis/Why-Konza-is-high-on-r...
or shorter link http://tinyurl.com/b2dw6xb
I think its food for thought.
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