Bobby, On the same subject, i attended the public lecture on managing complex projects at Strathmore University, Governor (rtd) Nahashon Nyagah (all protocol observed) and his team made a very interesting presentation on Tatu City, it thought there might be so much that can be borrowed from their approach, i am sure those who attended can attest to this, Daktari is there a way we can tap into this resource of experts, i beleive they are Kenyans for Kenya. Kind Regards On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:28 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Hi Listers,
On Friday I past by Kenyatta University (which for some reason the map at the iHub refers to as Jomo Kenyatta University), I was greeted by a large poster, most likely bigger than the one at Konza, advertising something called the Uni City.
I have searched the web but there is scanty if any information, the university web site has even less information about the project than the K24 site.
All that is beside the point, I did a quick analysis of such a project and the effect it would have on the Konza. A quick Googleearth search revels that KU has a lot of free land that can accommodate a substantially large city, in addition across the road is a large chunk of land owned by BrookSide which would act very well as an overflow of the developments.
The area around KU already has accommodation, they are putting up a large teaching hospital, it is less than 50 kilometres away from JKIA, very close to the soon to be developed airport in Kakuzi, is on a superhighway, is surrounded by good recreation facilities and last but not least is within a university (JKUAT is just up the road and USIU & KCA are down the road).
Uni City is the to kill for location for the new Silicon Savannah ready to role out tomorrow, sorry I meant yesterday. The intellectuals, very many in one location, at KU are not doing conferences or touring the world to meet foreign experts but instead are out there in execution mode, hawacheki na watu.
If the same concept is replicated at Kabarak, RIAT, Maseno, Moi and others what is the need for Konza?
Konza is based on the mainframe approach, the world has gone distributed systems, wireless and cloud why the disconnect?
Regards
PS. Daktari, maybe the threat you had issued once to turn the site at Konza into a holding ground for KMC may actually come to pass.
Regards
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