Hi Colleagues, Interesting conversation and developments, congratulations bwana Waziri. However and In my humble opinion government should get its priorities right, we have areas near Nairobi like Ole Polos and Kisamese, 50 Kilometres from the CBD where connectivity is a major challenge and i invite you to drive down to this area one of this days. Students have to travel for 20 Kilometres to access Cyber Cafe's since 2 G or 3 G on the mobile Network is unstable. The Huduma Centre has been idle for more than one year due to lack of connectivity. Why cant we ensure all Citizens have access to electricity and good communication infrastructure?, its good to showcase success stories from Europe but we must remember that they have the basics in place. Regards On 1/24/17, Tony White via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Eric,
I'm in full agreement with your suggestion - but this should be in addition to the '40 tablets'. Raspberry Pis, whilst low cost, also need TVs as monitors, keyboards, mice, power supplies, cables. It would be a maintenance nightmare!
So - there should be 'maker space' provided in addition for mebbe 5 Pis, with breadboards, components, and a RasPi teacher following the recently released curriculum for the RasPi.
We can but dream ;)
Cheers, Tony
On 24/01/2017, Eric Mwangi via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
While this cool - I was fortunate to sit with his team and talked about Ajira and this particular project. However my suggestion then and still is - why not install Rasberrry PI's to create a development culture and cost a fraction to tablets?
Eric www.vaultglobal.co.uk
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On 24 Jan 2017, at 12:59, Collins Areba via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Interesting read, I actually have a question:
What is the current state of Business Process outsourcing in this country? I remember there was a time when this was a tune everyone was singing as justification for landing five (or is it six) submarine cables. A few years down the line, have these industries taken off? Is there quantifiable lessons to learn from these? Do the same , or more business opportunities exist for the same or different kind of platforms?
On making access affordable and available, Would it make better sense to expand the mandate of Kenet? To somehow tap into their experience to have them extend internet to schools, polytechnics, etc, and provide more funding (government, USF, Private sector) in a single channel to manage delivery of connectivity to academia.
My $2.
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Listers
An interesting article penned by our very own CS. Insightful and needed.
Taking the digital dividends to the constituencies for prosperity
I'm hoping that the Abdis, The Kamaus, The Karisa, The Poghishios, The Omaris, The Nyachaes...(You get the drift..) in the farthest corners of Kenya - From Wajir to Kakuma to Lamu will access Broadband everywhere and anywhere sooner rather than later.
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