Grace, Yes there are four different Transnational Operators wanting to be in Mombasa. It could be related to the interest in building mega data centers here. These are possibly trying to entice content aggregators to have their point of presence here. There will be some positive to this considering the fact that we get the opportunity to develop capacity (improveed real employment opportunities), significantly develop our energy sector and possibly drastically reduce cost of connectivity. My frustration has been how we get our people to begin working on local content. We do not need clouds for content like Sesemi Street when we can create local edutainment from local resources. Remember the local content you develop here is good for any African Country. If we automated our Government Records, we shall have the chance to replicate the processes in 50 other countries. We shall get to my bet subject of intra Africa Trade. Check this blog and know where the future lies: http://blogs.worldbank.org/africacan/africas-mics After my trip to IGF in Baku, I passed through London at the invitation of the John D. and Catherine T. MacAthur Foundation to join a multidisciplinary Research Network of thinkers and doers on "Opening Government" to analyze and realize the potential impact of technology on democratic institutions, specifically how we can use technology to create more collaborative ways of governing to solve the World's hardest problems. There were about 40 Professors meeting at 10 Downing Street. They were mostly from MIT, Stanford, Duke, Havard, Cambridge, Oxford, Southampton etc. Most of the MIT and Stanford have research here or planning to be in Nairobi for collaboration. At least three quarters of them said something about Kenya emergence and hoped we can sustain the innovative capacity. I realized that we must couple the youth in application development with Universities where research is done. Most of our Universities have become teaching institutions that must now move to research. The realtime data most developers have been wanting must be data from research activities and some from institutions. For example, any hospital must have its capacity data out there. We need to know where the Neuro Surgeons, Cardiologists, Oncologists etc, what equipment is available, capability of the labs etc. This is all knowledge such that if I have a heart attack patient I know where to get help instead of trial and error and as you know Kenyans do not volunteer to say they have no capacity. This is what a knowledge society looks like. One of the Professors presented life data from a mobile phone gathering data in a Central American country. Simple analytic on the data shows that teachers go to their respective schools for less than two days a week. These are some of the worst performing schools. There was a high correlation of poor performance and affliation to Unions. Does this resonate with Kenya? Change is in our hands but we must begin to exercise our responsibility to change our country for the better. Ndemo.
IN SUMMARYInformation and Communication Permanent Secretary Bitange Ndemo on Monday said that a Middle Eastern company was currently contracting suppliers to lay the undersea cableAccording to the PS, the increased network capacity will be in line with rising local demands for high speed dataDr Ndemo also revealed that a project to provide every Internet users with digital identities would be implemented in a bid to combat rising cyber crime http://www.nation.co.ke/business/news/Fifth-fibre-optic-cable-lands/-/1006/1... _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet
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