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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:22:42 +0300
From: Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke>
To: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk>
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Robert
This is apt and timely. The thing though is to find a balance to ensure that the real entrepreneurs rise above the noise.
Regards
Ali Hussein
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On Oct 12, 2012, at 9:00 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> This is an interesting article that explains the comprenuers (competition entrepreneurs) bug that is affecting so many of our brilliant minds
>
> http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/10/the_danger_of_celebritizing_en.html
>
> Regards
>
> Robert Yawe
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From: Francis Hook <francis.hook@gmail.com>
To: Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke>
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agree - oft times we see people on "top 10", "most watched" etc lists
mostly because of the noise they make rather than the actual value
created or innovation. I believe there are many unsung entrepreneurs
we do not hear about since they are more focused on doing stuff rather
than making noise about the little they do. The sad thing is that
they miss out on investor opportunities while the "Paris Hilton"
entrepreneurs attract investors/attention ...
On 12 October 2012 22:22, Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke> wrote:
> Robert
>
> This is apt and timely. The thing though is to find a balance to ensure that
> the real entrepreneurs rise above the noise.
>
> Regards
>
> Ali Hussein
>
> +254 773/713 601113
>
> Sent from my iPhone?
>
> On Oct 12, 2012, at 9:00 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> This is an interesting article that explains the comprenuers (competition
> entrepreneurs) bug that is affecting so many of our brilliant minds
>
> http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/10/the_danger_of_celebritizing_en.html
>
> Regards
>
> Robert Yawe
> KAY System Technologies Ltd
> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
> Kenya
>
> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
>
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Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 11:05:44 +0300
From: Gideon <gideonrop@gmail.com>
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Subject: [kictanet] Making Sense of our development
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Listers
"*Hyacinth has been found to be a good ingredient for organic fertilizer.*"
I will quote Ps. Ndemo !!! And again not once, not twice have we seen the
media cover individuals who have attempted to create paper out of the
mashed Hyacinth, well the process was certainly long but the end product is
very beautiful, home made cards.
For me perhaps we only remember Mau Forest and others when the issue of
paper comes up, Pan Paper has not performed well, Polythene bags are
polluting our country and by extension agriculture is affected, why not use
the idea of making hyacinth paper bags that we could use in supermarkets
and grocery shops and probably eliminate these non bio degradable bags ?
I think we can agree that instead of crying over Hyacinth that has taken
over the freshest lake in the world, we could harness the weed and generate
animal feed , paper , furniture , bio gas and many more. Someone just needs
to start commercializing it. Probably we could have government buy the
first batch of hyacinth furniture and yes others would follow suit.
Gideon Rop
DotConnectAfrica
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> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:25:38 +0300
> From: Dorcas Muthoni <dmuthoni@gmail.com>
> To: bitange@jambo.co.ke
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> Kenya Investment Authority has been advertising the opportunity for
> manufacture of fertilizer
> http://www.investmentkenya.com/opportunities/manufacturing
>
> I hope they are aware of this opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.
>
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 8:37 PM, <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote:
>
> > Listers,
> > I very much know that my post today is not directly ICT but its
> > implications have a great bearing on the decisions we make about our
> > future development in ICT.
> >
> > Page 19 of the Star of Thursday, October 11th, carried a story on Water
> > Hyacinth titled ?Water hyacinth project threatened by court order?. This
> > is apparently a donor funded project in its phase two under Lake Victoria
> > Environmental Management Project (LVEMP).
> >
> > LVEMP II is an eight-year US$254 million (Ksh. 2.1 billion) old regional
> > project being implemented in the five East African Community partner
> > states says the article. Objectives of the project include: improving
> > ?collaborative management of trans-boundary natural resources of Lake
> > Victoria basin? as well as ?reduce environmental stress in the targeted
> > pollution hotspots and selected degraded sub-catchment areas as a way of
> > improving the livelihoods of communities who depend on the lake basin?s
> > resources?.
> >
> > One will hope that the project is supposed to physically remove water
> > hyacinth from the lake to enable the people access the resources from the
> > lake. However, in the past eight years the spread of this water menace
> > has more than tripled and this is what prompted me we to re-examine the
> > objectives as stated. If these objectives were to be re-stated in
> > simplified English, the real meaning could be to help citizens of East
> > Africa understand how to collaborate and manage their resources as well
> as
> > reduce their stress. The project therefore has nothing to do with water
> > hyacinth and hence the reason why the people are fighting over it.
> >
> > If the donor language were to be simpler, they would have thought about
> > project sustainability in which case we did not need all the resources
> > that is at the disposal of the fighting citizens. In my view we needed
> > only US$50 (US$10 million for each country) to set up an organic
> > fertilizer factory. Hyacinth has been found to be a good ingredient for
> > organic fertilizer. Just recently I wrote a blog how soil nutrients have
> > been depleted in densely populated districts with excessive land
> > sub-divisions. Studies also show productivity levels dropping
> > significantly that our food security and safety is at its worst threat.
> >
> > Further, chemical fertilizer may be poisoning our ground water and may be
> > likely the cause of increased cancer cases in the region. There is
> > greater urgency than ever before that we exploit every opportunity for
> > developing organic fertilizer like hyacinth that would improve on
> > productivity, ensure sustainable development and reduce its impact on our
> > water resources. Our problems would only be solved by us and as such
> > foreign interventions will not always be a universal remedy to our
> > predicament.
> >
> > Ndemo.
> >
> >
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> > for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and
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> >
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> > share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do
> > not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
> >
>
>
>
> --
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>
> My Blog: http://rugongo.blogspot.com/
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> From: Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com>
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> Hey All,
>
> Dr. Ndemo has an acute eye of spotting killer plans that have potential.
> Some time back there was a feature on the news of a lady making chairs out
> of woven hyacinth fibers but that just died off. Why the local moguls and
> their attendant overlords over in nairobi did not push for market in the
> govt offices I have no idea. The opportunities are uncountable but we all
> go to do CPAs and get degrees with little intention of aplying the
> academics.
>
> I believe the German way of doing thing is superior. have people specialize
> very early in their life befor committing to university programs that add
> little to their value and employability. Apprenticeship and for those that
> want to train further go to university.
> Killing our polytechnics and colleges is detrimental to all.
>
> Hyacinth is currently a problem. Why not turn it into a resource?
>
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Dorcas Muthoni <dmuthoni@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Kenya Investment Authority has been advertising the opportunity for
> > manufacture of fertilizer
> > http://www.investmentkenya.com/opportunities/manufacturing
> >
> > I hope they are aware of this opportunity to kill two birds with one
> stone.
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 8:37 PM, <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote:
> >
> >> Listers,
> >> I very much know that my post today is not directly ICT but its
> >> implications have a great bearing on the decisions we make about our
> >> future development in ICT.
> >>
> >> Page 19 of the Star of Thursday, October 11th, carried a story on Water
> >> Hyacinth titled ?Water hyacinth project threatened by court order?.
> This
> >> is apparently a donor funded project in its phase two under Lake
> Victoria
> >> Environmental Management Project (LVEMP).
> >>
> >> LVEMP II is an eight-year US$254 million (Ksh. 2.1 billion) old
> regional
> >> project being implemented in the five East African Community partner
> >> states says the article. Objectives of the project include: improving
> >> ?collaborative management of trans-boundary natural resources of Lake
> >> Victoria basin? as well as ?reduce environmental stress in the targeted
> >> pollution hotspots and selected degraded sub-catchment areas as a way of
> >> improving the livelihoods of communities who depend on the lake basin?s
> >> resources?.
> >>
> >> One will hope that the project is supposed to physically remove water
> >> hyacinth from the lake to enable the people access the resources from
> the
> >> lake. However, in the past eight years the spread of this water menace
> >> has more than tripled and this is what prompted me we to re-examine the
> >> objectives as stated. If these objectives were to be re-stated in
> >> simplified English, the real meaning could be to help citizens of East
> >> Africa understand how to collaborate and manage their resources as well
> as
> >> reduce their stress. The project therefore has nothing to do with water
> >> hyacinth and hence the reason why the people are fighting over it.
> >>
> >> If the donor language were to be simpler, they would have thought about
> >> project sustainability in which case we did not need all the resources
> >> that is at the disposal of the fighting citizens. In my view we needed
> >> only US$50 (US$10 million for each country) to set up an organic
> >> fertilizer factory. Hyacinth has been found to be a good ingredient for
> >> organic fertilizer. Just recently I wrote a blog how soil nutrients
> have
> >> been depleted in densely populated districts with excessive land
> >> sub-divisions. Studies also show productivity levels dropping
> >> significantly that our food security and safety is at its worst threat.
> >>
> >> Further, chemical fertilizer may be poisoning our ground water and may
> be
> >> likely the cause of increased cancer cases in the region. There is
> >> greater urgency than ever before that we exploit every opportunity for
> >> developing organic fertilizer like hyacinth that would improve on
> >> productivity, ensure sustainable development and reduce its impact on
> our
> >> water resources. Our problems would only be solved by us and as such
> >> foreign interventions will not always be a universal remedy to our
> >> predicament.
> >>
> >> Ndemo.
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> kictanet mailing list
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> >>
> >> The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform
> >> for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and
> >> regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT
> >> sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and
> development.
> >>
> >> KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors
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> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Muthoni
> >
> > My Blog: http://rugongo.blogspot.com/
> > --------------------------------------------
> > Mahatma Gandhi once said:-
> >
> > First they ignore you,
> > Then they laugh at you,
> > Then they fight you,
> > AND THEN YOU WIN!!!
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> > for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and
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> > sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and
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> >
> > KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors
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> > not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
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>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Mark Mwangi
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> This is an interesting article that explains the comprenuers (competition
> entrepreneurs) bug that is affecting so many of our brilliant minds
>
> http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/10/the_danger_of_celebritizing_en.html
>
> Regards
>
> ?
> Robert Yawe
> KAY System Technologies Ltd
> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
> Kenya
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>
> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
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