they are the same people that advised microsoft to ignore android leading them to make a loss on the nokia aquisition On Tue, 1 Jun 2021, 19:33 Grace Githaiga via KICTANet, < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Listers This may be of interest to some here. Rgds Grace
Kenya was one of the earliest countries to outsource its dreaming to McKinsey. The entire Vision 2030 strategy was developed by the Kenyan government in conjunction with McKinsey & Company, with Konza being one of many techno-utopian urban renewal projects the firm was involved in. At first, most were undertaken in Asia, then, in the 2000s, the focus shifted to African countries, which were seen as growth markets for big tech and financial corporations.
...the McKinseyfication of government and federal services often means that the mere production of paperwork counts as progress. ...The question then becomes, Who is responsible for the failure of Konza?”
Read on: https://restofworld.org/2021/the-failed-promise-of-kenyas-smart-city/ --
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