Bwana PS, While i agree with you that government must facilitate the small enterprises, i think we must also stretch our government efforts to grow our established enterprises to become regional and multinationals. For example, government should challenge such enterprises with "big government project" which would stretch them to expand or join forces in consolidation etc. Generally, we know that SMEs grow economies but in the globalised era, multinational corporations have become "an extenstion of the state" and so we must work towards enlarging our coast in that direction and playing in that space. I see some Kenya businesses that are at that point and we must move in on them. Eric here On 12 Feb 2008, at 17:36, bitange@jambo.co.ke wrote:
We are working towards that. We need private sector to push these developments. Government is not good in business. We can only intervene to facilitate especially the small enterprises.
Ndemo
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-----Original Message----- From: "Eric Osiakwan" <eric@afrispa.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:22:38 To:bitange@jambo.co.ke Cc:KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Fibre Optic Cables
Nothing against all the big guns establishing in Kenya but what about a long term objective of building our own version of Akamai,googles, Limelights etc.
Dont forget the real winners in the knowledge era are those who produce their own not use others. So our long term objective should be to have our own alongside others because it is a free market economy.
Eric here
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Michuki Mwangi <michuki@swiftkenya.com> Reply-To: michuki@swiftkenya.com Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:14:04 +0300
bitange@jambo.co.ke wrote:
Good news is that Etisalat (our partners in Teams) in conjunction with Akamai are building an Internet Point of Presence (POP) in Fujaira thus eliminating long distance needs for Internet in this region.
The long term objective should be to have the likes of Akamai, Limelight and google collocating their nodes in Kenya. This will essentially keep at least 50% of our Internet traffic local.
Regards,
Michuki.
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