Nduati, It was nice meeting you in 2009. I hope to see you after a year (or a couple?) standing next to a "new machine" skunkworks-like <http://www.lockheedmartin.com/aeronautics/skunkworks/> :-) :-) I support you PS lock up a couple of these guys.... On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:28 PM, <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote:
Akich, I may have to try your approach brother. If Nduati is listening, please contact me.
Regards
Ndemo.
Daktari,
It is sad as you say we have to waste foreign exchange for simple technology such as set top box. The government spend a lot of funds supporting polytechnics and other technical institutions and it is a concern why they would not undertake such projects for sustainability.
I am reminded that if it was not of the Amercan industrialist's stubbornness, our so called VIPs would not be enjoying a ride in the powerful 8V engine block. Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motors kept the engineers locked in a workshop for one year until they succeeded in what they had ealier believed was impossible to achieve. Therefore if I were in your position, I would have picked one technical institution, assign them to produce those sets of top boxes and ensure no graduation takes place for that relevant department until they succeed. What is the purpose of education if it can not address challenges we face? Some might call it dictatorship, what is wrong with that if it can make the country move forward.
Those are my thoughts,
Akich Kwach