Solomon,
Thank you. The Vision 2030 "Wakilisha" campaign launched recently is a call for every Kenyan to own Vision 2030, the Constitution and the Country. This is the charge that Dr. Ndemo and all of us at the Vision 2030 Delivery Secretariat are putting forward.
I cannot agree more for a 2012 resolution
Emmanuel K. Nzai
Executive Officer
Vision 2030 Delivery Secretariat
KUSSCO CENTRE, 2nd Floor, Upper Hill,
P.O. Box 52301-00200 Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: 254 (20) 2220300/2224232300
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Email: enzai@vision2030.go.ke
-----Original Message-----
From: Solomon Mbũrũ Kamau [mailto:solo.mburu@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 12:32 PM
To: Emmanuel K. Nzai
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Vision 2030: ICT and Other Sectors Converged (Day 3)
Emmanuel,
I must have read Dr. Ndemo's comment hastily that I couldn't point out
the paragraph you've quoted.
Much apologies to Dr. Ndemo on my misunderstanding.
As we get into the year 2012, let us look for a way to engage
ourselves in making the vision a reality.
Good evening.
Solomon
On 31/12/2011, Emmanuel K. Nzai <enzai@vision2030.go.ke> wrote:
> Solomon,
> A very quick response to CORRECT you. Please read Dr. Ndemo's comment on
> Mugo's moderation and listers' engagement below:
>
> ....." Mugo is one of the most accomplished Kenyan having risen to the
> pinnacle of both Private and Public sectors in Kenya. I got the feeling
> that we treated him with kid gloves. I did not see any question with
> respect to our expectation of the public in achieving the vision"....
>
> With all due respect, you either read too fast or completely misunderstood
> the English language. Simply, Dr. Ndemo is challenging the listers like you
> to up your game in engaging Mugo and Vision 2030 - Not the other way round.
>
> Pls. Your perspective on Energy and Vision 2030 is right on point. Let up
> it!
>
> Emmanuel Nzai
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Solomon Mbũrũ Kamau [mailto:solo.mburu@gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 7:50 AM
> To: enzai@vision2030.go.ke
> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Vision 2030: ICT and Other Sectors Converged (Day 3)
>
> Dr. Ndemo,
> With due respect, I find your comment on listers' popints to Mr. Mugo
> not satisfying (to your expectations). However, in the foregoing, I
> understand that most of us were not privy to the conception of the
> Vision 2030, and perhaps, we were raisin issues per what we see
> happening, for example on energy. Kenya Power as a monopoly enjoys
> 100% benefit in the power sector, yet in the ccompetitive and
> liberalized world, competition thrives when the market is not capped
> on one firm. Kenya Power, while being good in blackouts, stills enjoys
> support from the government, yet as we speak about achieving the
> Vision, energy is the most important aspect driving us towards the
> realization of the flashship projects pointed out.
> Generally, without education, there is nothing like achieving
> development in it's full scale.
>
> In my view, I think the contributors interrogating Mr. Mugo did their
> level best to make the Vision clear in a layman language, more
> sepcifically, Mr. Mugo himself.
>
> Regards,
>
> Solomon
>
>
> On 31/12/2011, bitange@jambo.co.ke <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote:
>> Eric,
>> I am not done with your questions yet. On Government blocking investment
>> in
>> energy. This is what we are trying to address: The role of government in
>> enterprise. If you go deeper into Schumpeter's theory, you will find that
>> no government can block an idea or innovation whose time has come.
>>
>> When Graham Bell invented the telephone, the British Post dismissed the
>> idea
>> saying there were enough messengers around. With the invention of mobile
>> telephony, the land line is undergoing the same fate it brought to
>> communication early in the 20th century. This is what is called "creative
>> destruction".
>>
>> We must understand this theory if indeed we want to survive in the days to
>> come. In my recent visit to China, I saw what the future would be like.
>> A
>> city the size of Nairobi is using both solar and wind energy to light up
>> street lights. This innovation even in Kenya does not require government
>> approval. Further we have enriched the Arab world far too long when we
>> use
>> parrafin to power our rudimentally oil lamps. Instead we should by now
>> have
>> provided a simple battery, a solar panel and a micro wind vane to every
>> household for energy supply. This will save us billions of dollars that
>> we
>> can invest in preventive medical care.
>>
>> Your problem is that you want to replicate what you have seen in advanced
>> economies. Your approach would fail. You must first create the market
>> through simple understandable solutions. The demands for energy will then
>> be incremental such that even if you were to build 10,000 MW you have a
>> ready market.
>>
>> On colonialism; This is non sense in my view. Those who colonized us are
>> dead and most of those who were colonized are dead too. We must not
>> forget
>> that this happened but our focus should be to build confidence in
>> ourselves
>> to face the world. Take China for example, Japan dominated them but they
>> have not spent their lives grumbling about the past. They have faced up
>> to
>> Japan and today they compete on an equal footing.
>>
>> Although parts of Africa are still under the French colony, you must be
>> grateful that the British colonized us. The British were only interested
>> in
>> domination and material wealth. The French's integration approach still
>> has
>> implications on their colonies. Indeed as I write there are Africans in
>> Africa who consider themselves French. There are African states that
>> still
>> pay French tax. Mineral resources on African continent still belong to
>> France.
>>
>> I have nothing against the French. If our Francophone brothers feel
>> comfortable this way, let it be. The best we can do is to face up to our
>> colonial power, leverage on the Common Wealth
>> Association to build a new alliance that benefits all of us. Together we
>> have more voting power and ability to lead the agenda.
>>
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Ndemo.
>>
>> Sent from my BlackBerry®
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> 30 Dec 2011 15:51:57
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>> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
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