Members,

 

I believe we are all looking forward to enjoying a relaxing Christmas break with our family and friends. Let us hold on to these attacks and hopefully by January 2010, we will be all rested and able to offer constructive contributions to this debate.

 

I have enjoyed the interactions on this list and look forward to a more positive and successful 2010!

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

 

Esther

 

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From: kictanet-bounces+emuchiri=andestbites.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+emuchiri=andestbites.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of robert yawe
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 2:01 PM
To: emuchiri@andestbites.com
Cc: 'KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions'
Subject: Re: [kictanet] {Disarmed} RE: Question on ICT/BPO Park

 

Hi,

From your domain name I see you should be looking at a technology park not the ICT park with is actually a subsector.  I would warn you not to hold your breath on the park as we are already into campaign mode so expect more short term projects with high extortion capacity, that is less than 2 years cycle.

To answer the questions, the government is meant to provide an enabling environment and facilitation not procurement as allocation will be done like was done in Mau a few politically correct people will be allocated the land for speculation purposes.

We are yet to see a comprehensive strategy paper on the ICTPark all we get are snippets, will the government lease the land at pepper cone rates or commercial rates, what is the time frame.  All we are asking is a detailed roadmap so that we know where we are heading.  I do not expect this soon especially since we have never seen the entire designs for the new road networks all we get is snippets, why?

Athi River is too close to Nairobi and will suffer from all the short comings, the location needs to be further from Nairobi so that it can be insulated from the speculative demands.  My proposal is Nanyuki for its weather and adaptive administration, Mumias close to the sugar plant to provide reliable power supply or Isiolo.

We need to make a clean break from Nairobi and its environs, also if we are to put up disaster recovery centers they need to be at least 150 kilometers from the main data centres therefore Athi River is out.

The ICTPark is supposed to be a tripartite in nature private sector, academia & government in that order.

Regards

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

Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696

--- On Tue, 22/12/09, Pamela <pamela@cardiacimplants.com> wrote:


From: Pamela <pamela@cardiacimplants.com>
Subject: [kictanet] {Disarmed} RE: Question on ICT/BPO Park
To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk
Cc: "'KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions'" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Tuesday, 22 December, 2009, 15:17

I work for a sector which would greatly benefit and we are waiting for the ICT Park with ‘baited’ breath. I believe this idea is also open to the private sector, I am trying to understand why Mr. Liko thinks it is not the best use of government funds, could you kindly throw some light into this view. And the location, somewhere in the Arthi plains? What sucks about it? What would be a better location. I feel like your comments left those of us who are used to criticism  followed by suggestions hanging. Some way forward suggestions please.

 

Merry Christmas!

 

From: kictanet-bounces+pamela=cardiacimplants.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+pamela=cardiacimplants.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Agosta Liko
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 5:27 PM
To: pamela@cardiacimplants.com
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Question on ICT/BPO Park

 

In Uganda ... a private investor is building ...

In Kenya ... GOK

My view is that this is not the best use for govt funds ... in this sector ... at his time :)

and location really sucks

merry xmas

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:28 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

It is interesting what you find when searching the Internet, we seriously need to add some information on the web.

We are unable to sort out a basic issue like procurement of land for the ICT Park, look at the following article on what our neighbour Uganda are doing.  Its time we stopped thinking that the whole world is waiting for us to clean our act, others are moving on.

http://www.cio.com/article/375713/Indian_Investor_to_Build_US_200m_ICT_Park_in_Uganda




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

Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696



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