Dr. Ndemo, Many thanks for the initiative, we do hope you will grace the occasion, we will keep you informed as we plan and prepare for the forum and will accommodate all stakeholders. Best Regards On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Bitange Ndemo <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote:
Barrack, I have asked Kaburo to start a tweet campaign leading up to Friday140 at the I-Hub next week. I shall try get our CS, Education CS and his PS. If by any chance I shall not be there, ICT Board will proceed with the plans since I shall have reguested the guests of honour to attend.
Ndemo.
Interesting perspectives,
Clearly there is need for stakeholders to meet and talk over this issue, may be GG, can invite Prof Godia to a stakeholders forum and Matogo can give us definate dates?. Since Dr. Ndemo is for it we can humbly request him to extend an invitation to Dr. Matiangi then we move forwad, we need to action this stakeholders meeting. Matogo? Venue, possible dates?
Best Regards
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com> wrote:
Is there anybody naive enough to believe Micro$oft is Robinhood?
Micro$oft will continue to laugh all the way to the bank, as we debate merits of what platform to adopt. Anybody ever heard of Economic Hit Men (EHM)! I can assure you, we have been hit.
Let's not forget that M$ is not evil. They are just trying as hard as everybody else to remain relevant in the hard economic times, and pay their shareholders. But should we do it with our blood?
How many new computers are sold with proprietary M$ software in Kenya? How much of that hard earned capital could go into better use, like pay our MPs? ;-)
Why have established and developed economies seen the need to move from propietary software to FOSS, to the extend of legislating in parliament?
How comes the Open Source community was caught napping? How was M$ able to pull the carpet under them?
Probably it's time to occupy Ministry of Education and Ministry of Information and let Kenyans know the merits and de-merits of the government position to partner with Micro$oft.
Have you ever tried to change a company who's employees were weaned with M$ and ICDL to FOSS? You will see Organisational behavour resistance to change at it's best.
Remember "The foundation of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decision of Chancellors or the spending programs of government" - George Osborne .
PS. Lets not forget Dr. Ndemo has a job to protect government position and interests. As articulate and convincing as he is, the government has got this all wrong. _____________ Mwendwa Kivuva twitter.com/lordmwesh kenya.or.ke | The Kenya we know
On that note, and considering that the cabinet slots have all now been filled, may be the jubilee admin should consider dr ndemo to head this konza technology park so that he steers the ambitious idea to the next level and takes this laptops idea forward, my reservations being noted. Or?
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Barrack, As I promised, Prof. Godia accepted to respond to your questions on Kicktanet. You will need to fix e-mail, godiaes@yahoo.com into the mailing list to make it easier to reply.
I attended the State House function and Microsoft agreed to do the following:
1. Work with different partners to Train ALL Primary School Teachers computers (more than 260,000) to enable them implement computer to schools programme by January. They are ready to start as soon as the Government of Kenya gives the go-ahead to start the programme at County level; 2. Work with different partners to develop and train at least five enterprises in each County to provide technical support in Hardware, Connectivity and Software to all schools within each County; and 3. Develop a research and innovation hub at Konza Technology Park to support software developers in the region. 4. Work with other Hardware manufacturers to develop a sustainable model that includes local assembly of computers as well as local software and content development that can be replicated in other African countries
This will go a long way in realzing our President's commitment to achieving his promises to the Kenyan people.
Regards
Ndemo.
Walu,
I think its time we focused on other issues, seems this project is a foregone conclusion. We will take stock in 2017.
Best Regards
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
Whao!
When I grow up, I want to work for M$oft :-)
Sounds like they are concluding the deal to be on 1million laptops next year - as we are busy tweeting on what Software is relevant for
On 04/06/2013, dmakali@yahoo.com <dmakali@yahoo.com> wrote: pupils
in Standard one. Read on @
http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Uhuru-secures-Microsoft-support-for-computers/-...
walu.
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