Just imagine this:

We have 47 Counties, and each of those Counties require applications to manage Finance, Procurement, Inventory, HR, Payroll, CRM, Asset Mgmt, Maintenance, Revenue Collection, Ticket Sales, Lands Administration, Licenses Administration, Security, DR and 20 other areas

If you came up with a Fund of say of Ksh 300million to anyone who comes up with applications that would automate any aspect of a County, pay say Ksh 5,3,2 million for the best applications in every category as long as the guy implements it in a single County, of which you'll provide the link, we would have at least 10 solid SMEs with enterprise applications in the space of about a year.

Now, these applications, ought to be made with SaaS in mind, meaning they can be hosted at a centralized site,to which the Counties connect to, seeing the GoK Fibre is supposed to be everywhere.

Now, to get the cloud architecture knowledge uptake going, offer Ksh 10M to any group of 5 guys who can show competency in installing, implementing and maintaining OpenStack/OpenNebula /Eucalyptus. That Ksh 10M is their pay for a single year running the County cloud environment, and this they can continue offering ad infinitum.

Get another Ksh 10M, offer it to another group of 5 guys who can show proficiency in installing & implementing security applications such as Snort, ntop, TrueCrypt, OpenNMS, let them offer their security services to Counties

These are the companies that in a few years time would be good enough to offer their services to central governments in the region, commercial entities et.al, and an ICT Industry would have been born.

But, of course everything above doesn't make sense since we need to put it all together into a single tender that can only be won by a Multi-National, as top notch Kenyan Engineers are busy making the next best high school dating application.

Regards

Waithaka Ngigi


On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm mystified as well at this obsession with mobile apps.

Not that we should not to them, but there is so much opportunity in other sectors - infrastructure, cloud computing, enterprise applications, content management that Kenya can not only benefit from, but we can be competitive globally.

Looks like mobile apps will be this regime's Pashas & BPOs


On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
A fairly narrow view of the technology sector. It's not all mobile. 

Sent from my mobile device, excuse brevity

On 22 Mar 2014, at 04:56, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga@hotmail.com> wrote:

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