Well put Phares. Which brings us to the capacity building part on the government side. Much had been done but a lot needs to be done yet. Ali Hussein +254 770 906375 / 0713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim Blog: www.alyhussein.com "I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots". ~ Albert Einstein Sent from my iPad
On Feb 17, 2015, at 2:30 PM, Phares Kariuki via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
It took amazon 8 years of AWS to get into government. We've been around for 1. Part of the problem is comfort. Government isn't comfortable with younger companies. Governments horizon is longer term than most businesses.
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:04 AM, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com> wrote: Waiting to see local initiative, skill, talent featured on www.ict.go.ke :)
On Feb 16, 2015 10:40 PM, "Phares Kariuki" <pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote: We are getting there. Currently, we do provide some county governments with services. Huduma centres were largely local save for the hardware. It takes time. We can change perceptions one day at a time
-- Phares
On Feb 16, 2015, at 5:30 PM, S.M. Muraya via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Outside South Africa and below North Africa, imagine if, at a Global Summit, African Presidents were asked to name homegrown IT firms their governments rely on for data storage & security services.
http://searchaws.techtarget.com/opinion/CIA-invests-in-the-AWS-cloud-despite...
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