On Friday, February 15, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Kivuva wrote:
Phares, I'm a great proponent of local industrialization. It does alot of good to a countries economy, number one being reducing capitalflight.But the scenario is this, UoN have said they have prototypes that areviable, but they don't have any means to produce them. Now, if we cancrack it and do it locally, that's the best move. But suppose thosestrategic investors don't show up? Should the idea just die out and weremain mass consumers, or should we outsource manufacturing/licencethe prototype to Asian and have a piece of the cake?On 15/02/2013, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:Manufacturing locally would absorb quite a number of semi skilledindividuals into the workforce. Always a good thing.Outsourcing is not always a good idea. Check what happened to Dell & ASUS.Even the all mighty Apple Inc & Samsung.Let's make them. Lets sell them. Lets figure out supply chain for thegreater East African region. Then we can tinker with other electronics.We have the capacity. Why not do it?Sent from my iPhoneOn 15 Feb 2013, at 17:30, Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com> wrote:I dream when we will have outsourced manufacturing jobs overseas, and havebig companies like Apple, HP, here in Kenya, then earn foreign exchange onthe distribution and sells all over the world. But it sounds like a pipedream.US is not suffering from outsourcing since the companies earn abnormalprofits from that. Only the poor jobless hands-man is the one who suffers.But here in Kenya, we have non. No manufacturing companies outsourcing toAsia, and no outsourced jobs coming back home.RegardsOn 15 February 2013 15:38, <peres_were@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:+1 Ali. I noted in Obama's State of the Union Address a new initiativetheUS govt is setting up called "Manufacturing Innovation Hubs" aimed atspurring innovation in Manufacturing.In addition, a number of US companies such as Apple and Ford are bringingback manufacturing to the USA.PeresSent from my BlackBerry®-----Original Message-----From: Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke>Sender: "kictanet"<kictanet-bounces+peres_were=yahoo.co.uk@lists.kictanet.or.ke>Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:23:46To: Peres Were<peres_were@yahoo.co.uk>Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>Subject: Re: [kictanet] University of Nairobi Set Top Boxes_______________________________________________kictanet mailing listUnsubscribe or change your options atThe Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platformfor people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy andregulation. 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