Josphat
It would indeed be interesting to have figures on online buyers

I know just a handful of guys who occasionally buy from Ebay, Amazon, etc, but I know for a fact their parcels were NOT delivered through any PCK service. While we are NOT looking for cheap WiFi, we know e-commerce demands reliable delivery services. PCK is better off enticing Wazi WiFi (I wonder how that one is doing) to include post offices and use the 1.2Billion to improve their core business, delivery of letter and small parcels. As I write this, I have just received an invite to go defend my my tender bid in Western Kenya on 27th August 2012. The letter was posted on 21st! My point here is that, people still write letters and use PCK. Since it is not very often, they can use the 1.2B to introduce an SMS alert that I would be happy to subscribe to just to know that I have mail. They would be talking to their existing customers and not hope that some cheap WiFi seeker will go browse at the Post Office.

I wonder if PCK will replace the letterboxes with WiFi Cyber Café's? If I am not going to the post office to collect/post letters, why else would I go there?

PMG might fail even before the gazetting. Be wise and hire Bobby

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Warm Regards

Okinyo F



On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Josphat Karanja <karanjajf@gmail.com> wrote:
Robert,

Is there anyone currently playing in the online delivery space, say for items purchased from Amazon?

I would be interested in figures of how many people are really buying items online.


Regards
...........................................................
Josphat Karanja,

Blog: http://mawazoyamkenya.blogspot.com/ 



On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:56 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Hi Walu,

Thanks, nonetheless, for the belated lobbying with the ideas being put forth by the new PMG I might be coming back for more lobbying.

More importantly is the issue you have raised about degrees for a degrees sake and I made it clear to PS Ndemo at the height of my lobbying that I would not go and get a US$ 1,500/- online degree just to meet a flawed requirement.  Sometimes what you need is passion (Hon. Kajwang raised the issue of a "passionometer") and a clear understanding of the problem and a grasp of the ideal solution.

Installing WiFi connectivity and offering it at Kes. 150/= per month will never get PCK out of the situation it currently is in now, the silence on this comment is a clear indication that very few of us actually read the article.

I would like to believe that the WiFi was to only access e-gov and local content other wise at those charges he would not be able to cover the cost of international bandwidth let alone the backbone infrastructure to Internet the various post offices.



He would rather be thinking of having an e-commerce platform where you could order items online (a blank CD in Nairobi is 15/- in Thika it is 25/-), pay using PostaPay/PesaPay/mPesa and have them delivered by EMS or PostMail, that is the thinking expected of someone at the helm of PCK today and not one who believes that PCK is only about letter.

So if the WiFi system had 1 million users of which 20% bought online, from a locally situated store, two item every month weighing less than five KG (that is the smallest chargeable unit) for which they paid 250/- each for delivery that would result in a revenue of 1,200,000,000/- (1.2 Billion).

This solution can be implemented today without having to spend 1.2 Billion in CapEx just use the Safaricom cloud to host the sites and spend 150 Million in media advertising and 50 Million in printing direct marketing materials to be inserted in the post office boxes (no stamp cost required).

If the board and management of PCK are truly interested in revamping the corporation I can put together a consortium of local developers a Pasha loan from KICTB and free hosting from Safaricom (yet to discuss with them but this post should have them salivating to jump on board) to implement the e-commerce solution proposed above all in exchange for a small revenue share arrangement.

There PMG free advice from the person who believes he deserved the job if it was based on the results of a passionometer.

Regards

 
Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya

Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
From: Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com>
To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Tuesday, 28 August 2012, 18:28
Subject: [kictanet] of online degrees + PCK...

Just read from todays Nation http://tinyurl.com/97z64zb that the new Postmaster General holds a doctorate from
http://www.washint.edu/en/  - Washington International University, a Cyberspace University.

Whereas I have nothing against online education - having benefited from one - I just thought that I could share some advice.  If you want to do an online program, do it from a PHYSICAL university that has an Online/Distance Learning division.  In other words, the university should physically exist. Similar to if you want to do Online banking, better do it from an existing bank (e.g. Equity, Barclays, KCB, etc) who have an online division.  That way you are likely to get your quality and credibility issues sorted out.

I know Wikipedia is not very authoritative but it is always a good place to go to after asking  Google. And so I did and this is what Wikipeidia said about Washington International University.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_International_University

It even claims in its list of graduates and I quote

" Asman Kamama Abongotum; Kenya's Deputy Minister for Education. He could lose his parliamentary position because of the unrecognized degree"  Actually our Commission of Higher Education seems to have a problem with this University.

I know the PCK board - that includes our PS Ndemo - may have seen this but argued rightfully that one may NOT need a PhD to ran a simple Postal Service in some developing economy.  In which case, our self-nominated candidate, Bobby Yawe should have been called for the interview?

Just thinking loudly and hope Kibunja and his friends (the mboys in mblue) dont come for me claiming this is hate speech - because I think its a mixture of advice and belated lobbying :-)

walu.








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