Listening to the conversation at Connected Kenya 2013 Summit, Smaller Kenyan ICT Firms are find it hard to access capital for growth. Funding is largley from friends and family. How then can they compete with Multinationals. The Government could create a procurement quota system for local firms. Etinick Mutinda ICDL Sent from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke Sender: "kictanet" <kictanet-bounces+etinickm=yahoo.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 15:25:10 To: Etinick Mutinda<etinickm@yahoo.com> Reply-To: kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke Subject: kictanet Digest, Vol 72, Issue 108 Send kictanet mailing list submissions to kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://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. Connected KE: Kenyan Tech companies seek more involvement in govt projects (Rebecca Wanjiku) 2. Re: Connected KE: Kenyan Tech companies seek more involvement in govt projects (Conrad Akunga) 3. Re: IEBC Voting Day Technical Audit (Daniel Mbugua) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 03:25:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Rebecca Wanjiku <rebeccawanjiku@yahoo.com> To: Kenya ICT Policy - kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: [kictanet] Connected KE: Kenyan Tech companies seek more involvement in govt projects Message-ID: <1369823110.97449.YahooMailNeo@web162703.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" For the last five years, there has been a common chorus among local tech companies; they want more of the large government contracts. We all want a piece of that large cake. Most of the money spent on government tech projects has gone to large corporations like Oracle, SAP, IBM etc. With the big budgetary requirements, many companies are locked out of these projects. The talk of technology transfer has been on for so long but the international companies just set up local branches, poach the guys from the local companies and move on. Its a competitive environment and the options look minimal. Read more....... ? http://www.wanjiku.co.ke/2013/05/kenyan-tech-companies-seek-more-involvement... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/pipermail/kictanet/attachments/20130529/5c5a0d61/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 05:12:10 -0700 (PDT) From: "Conrad Akunga" <conradakunga@gmail.com> To: "Rebecca Wanjiku" <rebeccawanjiku@yahoo.com> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Connected KE: Kenyan Tech companies seek more involvement in govt projects Message-ID: <1369829529596.d51482b@Nodemailer> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" If local companies are as good as they fondly believe to be, why should they want preferential treatment? ?I would think a more robust solution is for unnecessary barriers to entry like "10 million turnover" and "8 years audited accounts" be removed so that everyone competes on a level playing field. ?Mediocrity lies at the end of any road when any criteria other than A Game is considered.? ? On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Rebecca Wanjiku <rebeccawanjiku@yahoo.com> wrote:

For the last five years, there has been a common chorus among local tech companies; they want more of the large government contracts. We all want a piece of that large cake. Most of the money spent on government tech projects has gone to large corporations like Oracle, SAP, IBM etc. With the big budgetary requirements, many companies are locked out of these projects. The talk of technology transfer has been on for so long but the international companies just set up local branches, poach the guys from the local companies and move on. Its a competitive environment and the options look minimal. Read more....... ? http://www.wanjiku.co.ke/2013/05/kenyan-tech-companies-seek-more-involvement... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/pipermail/kictanet/attachments/20130529/c15efde8/attachment-0001.html>

------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 15:26:18 +0300 From: Daniel Mbugua <danjuguna2@gmail.com> To: Andrea Bohnstedt <andrea.bohnstedt@ratio-magazine.com> Cc: "kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] IEBC Voting Day Technical Audit Message-ID: <CANR1Hf_JCp=K7miN9DPCG2zmY6jeh_E5VBruONGVET5eK9x3vg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Ali +1 On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Andrea Bohnstedt < andrea.bohnstedt@ratio-magazine.com> wrote:

The longer you wait with an audit, the more difficult it will be to do (never mind the whole 'accepting and moving on' propaganda). And if you wait until a year before the next election, you deliberately cut down the time you have to fix anything.

On 29 May 2013 08:39, Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke> wrote:

...

Walu

I respectfully disagree.

The Emperor was found to be naked. So let the emperor be cleansed and new clothes provided to ensure that going forward no one can claim that the emperor was naked when he wasn't. And we need not wait for a year before the elections. This needs to be done now and tested in the myriad of by elections that are inevitable through petitions etc.

This country must live up to its hype of being the ICT Hub for Africa.

The IEBC needs to be cleansed. This wasn't an issue of technology failing but the leadership failing. An audit need not stop at IT Systems as in my humble opinion that is a red herring.

My two cowrie shells.

Ali Hussein CEO | 3mice interactive media Ltd Principal | Telemedia Africa Ltd

+254 713 601113

"The future belongs to him who knows how to wait." - Russian Proverb

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On May 29, 2013, at 8:19 AM, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:

@Mwangi,

Two things.

1. IEBC cannot purpot to audit themselves. Same thing as cops trying to investigate themselves - they will try to cover their xyz. 2. I think it would be some unnecessary distraction at this moment in time to do an independent audit.

My take is that we have some independent audit much later - say a year before the next election as a way of "lessons learnt" rather than now where the audit action maybe misinterprated to mean "whom do we blame". In such circumstances, IEBC officials will naturally be protective rather than facilitative.

walu.

------------------------------ On Tue, May 28, 2013 8:46 PM AST (Arabian) Mark Mwangi wrote:

Listers,

Now that the elections are long over and nation building is ongoing, is

there an Audit being prepared by the IEBC to explain exactly what happened.

If there is none then why not?

Are we to accept that the billions spent are gone and accept the results of

the wastage?

--

Regards,

Mark Mwangi

markmwangi.me.ke

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