McTim, You should have raised that issue over 4 months ago when the Kenya ICT Board invited interested parties to send a proposal for the development of ICT incubators. Just like with chicken egg incubators you cannot have too many, every year our institutions of higher learning pour out thousands of graduates who need somewhere to develop their skills. An incubator only hatches the chicks after that they are supposed to take in new eggs. If the chicks are allowed to stay in the incubator then it purpose and objective are defeated. As had been indicated the funding was to come from the World Bank or some other donor. What do you suggest that the KICT Board should do with those funds? Can you please also furnish us with some of the ICT incubators in Kenya and also some information on their success cases? I believe many of us on this list would love to visit them to see how they are doing, its possible we are harassing KICTB yet they have done a study and realised that we do not need any more incubators, but at the least they should share that information and that is what is being raised in this post. Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 ________________________________ From: McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com> To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Mon, 7 February, 2011 14:14:24 Subject: Re: [kictanet] ICT incubator - Expressions of interest Hi, We already have several ICT incubators. I'm not sure that there is enough biz to keep all the existent ones going let alone 2 new ones (InfoDev and ICT board). -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Edwin Onchari <eonchari@lynxbits.com> wrote:
I followed up on Paul as well on the same day, later in the evening, and not even an acknowledgement to that end. The least they can do is have an update on the KICTB site
From: kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Harry Karanja Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 12:57 PM To: Edwin Cc: 'KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions' Subject: Re: [kictanet] ICT incubator - Expressions of interest
I had raised the same issue a week or so back to Paul Kukubo of the ICT board through this list. He promised to give feedback on the same.
Harry Karanja n Director n SoftLaw Limited n Genius Executive Centre n 15th Floor View Park Towers n Utalii Lane n Nairobi CBD n Tel: +254 20 342 225
From: kictanet-bounces+kairo=softlaw.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+kairo=softlaw.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of robert yawe Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 11:58 AM To: kairo@softlaw.co.ke Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: [kictanet] ICT incubator - Expressions of interest
Hi,
Anyone aware of whether this issue has progressed beyond the placing of the advert and if so who have been short-listed to move to the next level?
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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