Hi Andrea, I like Dr. Ndemo's response crisp and precise but unfortunately it will not be actioned because the staff have actually factored in the allowances and an opportunity to get out of town. In addition those who lease plans and provide booking and logistics for the government are well connected. Parliament needs to be the first to implement the telepresence by initially setting up in each province and then move down to the district/county over time. The cost of $400/- has everything to do with the fact that Cisco's telepresence servers are in Europe, this service would be more effective if the servers where in Nairobi, but I stand corrected. All this is beside the point of this thread, mine is to find out if we can entrust the mobile providers with our critical data requirements if any of you out there has a positive story on this please share. Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 ________________________________ From: Andrea Bohnstedt <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, 1 February, 2011 14:33:56 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Prime Time data; is safaricom ready? That one presenter in Nairobi most likely belongs to a company that can afford USD400 an hour, and for which this makes good business sense since using this conferencing platform will cut down on travel and related costs. In the next few years, I expect that it would be a lot more affordable and effective if the Ministry of Education got a grip on those FPE and other funds that inexplicably go safari, generally tidies up its business, trains teachers, makes enough teachers available throughout the country, reduces class size etc - a whole bunch of very common-sense measures. For primary school pupils in particular, a teacher right in front of them who can walk around the class is important. They are still learning to learn - it's not a matter of sitting them down in front of a feed of information. Andrea On 1 February 2011 13:59, Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:45 PM, robert yawe <[email protected]> wrote:
Definitely with a rate of US$ 400 per hour it definitely is prime time for the partners in that group, maybe Airtel can mucky the waters by offering a competing product at $1/- per hour.
Now all we need to do is leverage the technology to sort out the issue of over crowding in our primary schools and soon our National schools.
If one presenter in Nairobi can present to audiences in Amsterdam, New York, Paris and Istanbul having the same replicated in Karachuonyo, Moyale and Chepalungu should be a synch or is it?
Robert, Perhaps you should wait until the govt finalizes on the plans to roll out 4G/LTE platform, then we can start discussing the possibility of the options raised by you? To use your own examples, do you suppose there is 3G in Moyale? Is there WiMax in Chepalungu? Broadband (forget 3G in this case as it only works well when there is no voice traffic) connectivity is still very wanting in KE. You should not be overexcited about this.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Damn!!
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