I know of a few countries in Africa that have prospered because of minerals. Botswana and South Africa come to mind. Kenya can join that exceptional list Herbert --- On Mon, 3/26/12, kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke <kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: From: kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke <kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: kictanet Digest, Vol 58, Issue 131 To: herbertwamalwa@yahoo.com Date: Monday, March 26, 2012, 5:48 PM Send kictanet mailing list submissions to     kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit     http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to     kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke You can reach the person managing the list at     kictanet-owner@lists.kictanet.or.ke When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of kictanet digest..." Today's Topics:    1. Re: #TurkanaOil-Kenya Discovers (justus wamukoya)    2. Re: #TurkanaOil-Kenya Discovers (Solomon Mb?r? Kamau) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:35:12 +0100 (BST) From: justus wamukoya <jwamukoya1@yahoo.com> To: Evans Ikua <ikua.evans@gmail.com> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] #TurkanaOil-Kenya Discovers Message-ID:     <1332772512.50810.YahooMailClassic@web29504.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hello Listers ? Oil or no oil the entire Kenyan population has to re-think its approach to handling of national issues. We all need to do some soul searching to see how we can rediscover what was one a society with some values. Our leaders past and present have exercised so much impunity that is has now afflicted the rest of the community. We live, eat, preach?and dream politics while our development blueprints take decades to take off. ? I am in China at the moment and as we all know this country has achieved what it has because of high discipline and respect for order. No?country can develop without a high sense of responsibility on the part of everyone.?In my view, with our disorder, especially among those we have assigned responsibility to mind our national purse, oil discovery may come to naught and development plans such as?Konza city and Vision 2030 may simply falter. ? Wamukoya ? ? --- On Mon, 26/3/12, Evans Ikua <ikua.evans@gmail.com> wrote: From: Evans Ikua <ikua.evans@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [kictanet] #TurkanaOil-Kenya Discovers To: jwamukoya1@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Monday, 26 March, 2012, 15:57 I am not excited at all. I just came back from Nigeria where you have to queue for hours in a filling station, sometimes days. Filling up your car is a source of stress and you have to really plan for it. Maybe oil will make our incessant political infighting getting bloodier. Konza City excites me more than the discovery of oil. With Konza, we have to keep thinking of how to bake the national cake. With oil, we will just be fighting over the sharing of oil wealth. We will probably become lazy, and yes, probably more corrupt. Ikua On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Francis Hook <francis.hook@gmail.com> wrote: Read somewhere, in response to this same announcement "We still want elections ?in 2012" :-/? That aside, can new found wealth mean faster attainment of Vision 2030? Will we be like Ghana and start making strides or like (insert country with natural resource related civil strife here)? Or can we take a stab at Vision 2020 instead thanks to oil wealth? On 26 March 2012 14:09, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote: #TurkanaOil is now trending worldwide on Twitter. Just wondering, @ Mugo Kibati, do re-write our V2030? Particularly sections relating to BPO/ITES...it might be that our answer to being a middle-income country by 2030 is through black gold and not ICTs? walu. --- On Sat, 3/24/12, alice@apc.org <alice@apc.org> wrote: From: alice@apc.org <alice@apc.org> Subject: [kictanet] DNS Security Stability and Resiliency review draft report To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Saturday, March 24, 2012, 9:55 PM ICANN's Security, Stability & Resiliency of the DNS Review Team (SSR -RT) released its Draft Report and Recommendations for? public comments . 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KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications. -- Francis Hook +254 733 504561 _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/ikua.evans%40gmail.com The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. 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