Kibaki’s letter gave birth to Kenya’s famed Silicon Savannah
...The journey to that phone call had begun at an insurance industry dinner two years earlier, in early 2006, at the Panari Hotel in Nairobi. Then, Mr Kagwe was the guest of honour. After his speech, a journalist had asked him to state the one thing he hoped to achieve at the ICT ministry. He told the journalist that he wanted Kenyans to communicate easily and cheaply with the world. At the time it cost Sh35 per minute to make a phone call within the Safaricom network during peak hours and up to Sh50 per minute to other networks. These high costs made Kenyans wait until off-peak hours to make cheaper calls, which often clogged the Safaricom network in the evening, rendering it impossible for anyone to get through. This state of affairs led then Safaricom CEO Michael Joseph to accuse Kenyans of peculiar calling habits, causing a PR crisis for the company. Internet connections, on the other hand, were a nightmare. Read more on: https://www.nation.co.ke/news/Kibaki-s-letter-that-delivered-broadband-inter... Best regards Grace Githaiga -- Grace Githaiga Co-Convenor, Kenya ICT Action Network
Thank you Grace for sharing this. Quite informative On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 11:35 AM Grace Githaiga via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
...The journey to that phone call had begun at an insurance industry dinner two years earlier, in early 2006, at the Panari Hotel in Nairobi. Then, Mr Kagwe was the guest of honour.
After his speech, a journalist had asked him to state the one thing he hoped to achieve at the ICT ministry. He told the journalist that he wanted Kenyans to communicate easily and cheaply with the world.
*At the time it cost Sh35 per minute to make a phone call within the Safaricom network during peak hours and up to Sh50 per minute to other networks.*
These high costs made Kenyans wait until off-peak hours to make cheaper calls, which often clogged the Safaricom network in the evening, rendering it impossible for anyone to get through.
*This state of affairs led then Safaricom CEO Michael Joseph to accuse Kenyans of peculiar calling habits, *causing a PR crisis for the company. Internet connections, on the other hand, were a nightmare.
Read more on: https://www.nation.co.ke/news/Kibaki-s-letter-that-delivered-broadband-inter...
Best regards
Grace Githaiga
-- Grace Githaiga Co-Convenor, Kenya ICT Action Network
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We had great leaders with Wanjikus interest at heart. May the future be kind to us once more. Regards On Sat, 31 Aug 2019, 11:33 am Grace Githaiga via kictanet, < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
...The journey to that phone call had begun at an insurance industry dinner two years earlier, in early 2006, at the Panari Hotel in Nairobi. Then, Mr Kagwe was the guest of honour.
After his speech, a journalist had asked him to state the one thing he hoped to achieve at the ICT ministry. He told the journalist that he wanted Kenyans to communicate easily and cheaply with the world.
*At the time it cost Sh35 per minute to make a phone call within the Safaricom network during peak hours and up to Sh50 per minute to other networks.*
These high costs made Kenyans wait until off-peak hours to make cheaper calls, which often clogged the Safaricom network in the evening, rendering it impossible for anyone to get through.
*This state of affairs led then Safaricom CEO Michael Joseph to accuse Kenyans of peculiar calling habits, *causing a PR crisis for the company. Internet connections, on the other hand, were a nightmare.
Read more on: https://www.nation.co.ke/news/Kibaki-s-letter-that-delivered-broadband-inter...
Best regards
Grace Githaiga
-- Grace Githaiga Co-Convenor, Kenya ICT Action Network
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Thanks GG for sharing, learnt a lot. On Sat, Aug 31, 2019, 15:19 Barrack Otieno via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
We had great leaders with Wanjikus interest at heart. May the future be kind to us once more.
Regards
On Sat, 31 Aug 2019, 11:33 am Grace Githaiga via kictanet, < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
...The journey to that phone call had begun at an insurance industry dinner two years earlier, in early 2006, at the Panari Hotel in Nairobi. Then, Mr Kagwe was the guest of honour.
After his speech, a journalist had asked him to state the one thing he hoped to achieve at the ICT ministry. He told the journalist that he wanted Kenyans to communicate easily and cheaply with the world.
*At the time it cost Sh35 per minute to make a phone call within the Safaricom network during peak hours and up to Sh50 per minute to other networks.*
These high costs made Kenyans wait until off-peak hours to make cheaper calls, which often clogged the Safaricom network in the evening, rendering it impossible for anyone to get through.
*This state of affairs led then Safaricom CEO Michael Joseph to accuse Kenyans of peculiar calling habits, *causing a PR crisis for the company. Internet connections, on the other hand, were a nightmare.
Read more on: https://www.nation.co.ke/news/Kibaki-s-letter-that-delivered-broadband-inter...
Best regards
Grace Githaiga
-- Grace Githaiga Co-Convenor, Kenya ICT Action Network
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On Sat, Aug 31, 2019, 11:35 Grace Githaiga via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
...The journey to that phone call had begun at an insurance industry dinner two years earlier, in early 2006, at the Panari Hotel in Nairobi. Then, Mr Kagwe was the guest of honour.
After his speech, a journalist had asked him to state the one thing he hoped to achieve at the ICT ministry. He told the journalist that he wanted Kenyans to communicate easily and cheaply with the world.
*At the time it cost Sh35 per minute to make a phone call within the Safaricom network during peak hours and up to Sh50 per minute to other networks.*
These high costs made Kenyans wait until off-peak hours to make cheaper calls, which often clogged the Safaricom network in the evening, rendering it impossible for anyone to get through.
*This state of affairs led then Safaricom CEO Michael Joseph to accuse Kenyans of peculiar calling habits, *causing a PR crisis for the company. Internet connections, on the other hand, were a nightmare.
Read more on: https://www.nation.co.ke/news/Kibaki-s-letter-that-delivered-broadband-inter...
Best regards
Grace Githaiga
-- Grace Githaiga Co-Convenor, Kenya ICT Action Network
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Good memories of that team (Mutahi Kagwe, Bitange Ndemo, etc) which made it all happen. The Mucheru team..Ndemo led blockchain task force (recommendations) MAY be even more revolutionary in fighting graft. https://www.nation.co.ke/news/Blockchain-technology-can-help-Kenya-win-graft... Trust more details will be published @ http://icta.go.ke/ but some critical issues must be addressed. (i) Our data protection act must require all sensitive data belonging to Kenyans, reside in Kenya - but with allowances for backup (copies) outside Kenya. Foreign firms need to keep our data local, even if they already have it backed up in their nations. https://www.zdnet.com/article/indian-govt-likely-to-cave-in-on-data-localisa... With fraud in the energy & water sectors being addressed, we are on the right track to more affordably & safely keep data local. (ii) Edge computing = more local data centres are needed for 5G networks (vision 2030) - IoT, Blockchain, etc https://www.networkcomputing.com/networking/how-edge-computing-will-strength... That is all. Skype: s.m.muraya On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 11:35 AM Grace Githaiga via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
...The journey to that phone call had begun at an insurance industry dinner two years earlier, in early 2006, at the Panari Hotel in Nairobi. Then, Mr Kagwe was the guest of honour.
After his speech, a journalist had asked him to state the one thing he hoped to achieve at the ICT ministry. He told the journalist that he wanted Kenyans to communicate easily and cheaply with the world.
*At the time it cost Sh35 per minute to make a phone call within the Safaricom network during peak hours and up to Sh50 per minute to other networks.*
These high costs made Kenyans wait until off-peak hours to make cheaper calls, which often clogged the Safaricom network in the evening, rendering it impossible for anyone to get through.
*This state of affairs led then Safaricom CEO Michael Joseph to accuse Kenyans of peculiar calling habits, *causing a PR crisis for the company. Internet connections, on the other hand, were a nightmare.
Read more on: https://www.nation.co.ke/news/Kibaki-s-letter-that-delivered-broadband-inter...
Best regards
Grace Githaiga
-- Grace Githaiga Co-Convenor, Kenya ICT Action Network
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participants (6)
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Barrack Otieno -
Billima -
Grace Githaiga -
Kenya Privacy -
Philip Omondi -
S.M. Muraya