This is a very sad state of affairs. "there is no technology transfer from the foreign vendor to young African Engineers.". Most of the vendors are Chinese, including Huawei, ZTE and China International Telecommunication Construction Company (CITCC) who use Chinese expertise for all the high-tech aspects of the projects. In a number of cases maintenance manuals are written in Chinese to ensure that Africans are forever dependent on the Chinese even for the most basic of network maintenance chores.

The current flow of our hard earned Capital from Kenya to China should be arrested. After giving Chinese Ksh 27 billion (US$ 330,000,000) for Thika road, I don't expect the same Chinese to be given the  KSh. 2.5 trillion ($29.24 billion) for the LAPSSET project. There should have been enough knowledge transfer to Kenyans so that that Capital remains within the confines of our borders by local companies doing the works.

I am still asking why the 22 story University of Nairobi Tower is being build by Chinese

Regards

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On 5 September 2013 09:13, Network of non- formal Educational institutions <nnfeischools@yahoo.com> wrote:
To all
We are investing so much in educating our child in ICT related field and it is the High time Kenya and Africa Believed in ourself If we miss it in ICT we miss it all
Jane


From: Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke>
To: Jane Muriuki <nnfeischools@yahoo.com>
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2013 5:08 AM
Subject: [kictanet] Africa IT Jobs Outsourced to China – Africa May Become Perpetually Dependent on China for Certain Skills

Listers

This is an interesting article and if there is any truth abut this then we are really in trouble.

http://ictafrica.info/FullNews.php?id=10646

Can we learn from the Chinese? Most of their most celebrated companies 'learned & borrowed' from the West when they won big infrastructure and other contracts in China. This was a deliberate policy move orchestrated by the Chinese Government.

When are we going to stop this vicious cycle of being consumer countries? 

When are we going to regain the glory days of the great African empires the likes of the Ancient Egyptian Empire and the Kingdom of Mali? 

Innovation and invention, contrary to popular belief isn't and wasn't the preserve of the West and the East. 

Ali Hussein
CEO | 3mice interactive media Ltd
Principal | Telemedia Africa Ltd

+254 713 601113/ 0770 906375

"The future belongs to him who knows how to wait." - Russian Proverb

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