Dear Listers We had a successful and informative visit to the Nyeri area today. We were on the road from 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Thanks to Patrick Mule who drove us through tarmac, marram, and sometimes bush!!! We successfully visited one pasha center, smartedge east africa limited, in Kiambu, Juja, Ruiru. The owner Mr. Geoffery Kamau was super qualified and very visionary, and we learned and enormous amount, but they had not really launched yet. With regard to the *safaricom tier 2 list,* we visited Sisicom cyber at Juja JKUAT. We visited a place called Milligan Heritage in Thika, Juja, which was not on the list but was quite good. In Sagana, we visited Top Tech computers, which was really struggling. We visited Kayoma Sacco in Karatina, which the list said was in Sagana, but is not in sagana, it is in Karatina, across from Uchumi. It was a good place. With regard to the *safaricom tier 1* list jomtech cyber is not in othaya constituency, and the phone number was for someone in Kerugoya, who had applied to be a digital village, but did not succeed. So, it is not there. We visited Othaya, and did not see anything that looked like a DV. Mac nut farm products appears to be operational in Kiraini, based on our phone call, but we took a wrong turn and went to Mukurweini. We searched all over town, and could not find anything that looked like a digital village there, although there are allegedly two on the list. Our wrong turn resulted in us going to Sagana the back way on a nicely paved road that suddenly turned to dirt, and so we hurtled through brush and darkness on a windy, hilly dirt road, and prayed for the best, eventually arriving back in Nairobi. So, all in all, an exciting trip. Thanks, Rigia On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 3:46 PM, warigia bowman <warigia@aucegypt.edu> wrote:

Dear Listers

Research car to view Nyeri digital villages is full tomorrow, Tuesday, August 8th.

Andrew Gakiria Warigia Bowman Victor Gathara Patrick Mule (Safaricom)

The goal is to do the whole loop. Juja, thika, sagana, karatina, nyeri, othaya, kira-ini, saba saba, thika, juja.

Some of these locations are not on this road, but I list them here for your information.

*ICT Board Pashas*: 1) Lucy Kinyanjui, Kiambu, Kabete, Kikuyu Township 2) Lucy Kinyanjui, Kiambu, (No identifying information) 3) Jeremiah mbugua, Kiambu, Limuru, Limuru, 4) Philip Ngugi, Muranga, Maragua, Maragua 4) Geoffery kamau, Kiambu, Juja, Ruiru, 5) P Karanja, Kiambu, Gatundu North, Gatukuyu * Safaricom Tier 1:* 1) Jomtech cyber, nyeri sagana road, othaya constituency 2) Mac Nut farm products, Kiriani town opp police station, mathioya constituency

*Safaricom Tier 2:* 1) Camelyn Nyambura, Nyeri town constituency, kangima kanyeyaini road 2) Compu world, mukurweini, nyeri town center, 3) computer factory, mukurweini, mukurweini photo house 4) david wanyiri, nyeri central, kibui building, grd floor 5) efast cyber cafe, juja, juja jkuat 6) integral communications, juja, juja town, 7) Juja St. Peters school, juja, juja town, 8) Karima secondary school, ndia sagana 9) kayoma sacco mathira, sagana town, 10) kibirigwi girls sec school ndia, sagana 11) Petra school on the rock, juja, thika kamiti road juja 12) realtech cyber, juja, thika 13) sagana secondary school, ndia, sagana 14) Sam and Hen 2, juja, saba saba 15) Tonnes cyber cafe, nyeri town constituency, karatina, 16) Top-tech computers, ndia, sagana muranga rd, kangata bldg, 17) well tee center, juja, thika town

Cheers, Rigia