Re: [kictanet] Rwanda Gets Localls Made/Assemled Handset
Dear Dr Ndemo, Thank you for your kind clarification on steps taken by Kenya on assembled electronics in Kenya. I am a strong bealiver in local industries and happy to let you know I have bought twenty Madaraka PCs from JKUAT Enterprises for our Tracom college teaching lab. They however need to develop local materials for the industry as oppossed to assembly only. Anyone can do that. The Gilgil Telecommucations Industry should be nurtured and it is a pity what you have explained on someone turning it to posts treatment. What a shame and waste of developing industrial capacity! May the good Loard see the case to logical conclusion. I fully agree with you that the private sector and the academia must wake-up and create the necessary industries and hence wealth. Once again thank you. Dan Njiriri --- On Mon, 9/8/08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Rwanda Gets Localls Made/Assemled Handset To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected], "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <[email protected]>, "Robert Onyango-Alai" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, September 8, 2008, 7:24 AM Dear Njiriri, There is nothing wrong with policy and we should not benchmark Kenya with Rwanda because the differences between the two countries are just too many. Compared to Kenya, Rwanda is where Kenya was in the 80's, centrally planned economy where the Government interferes with everything including the private sector. Granted there is virtually no private sector in Rwanda. We have spent most of the 90's privatizing that which was created by Government. The economy and more specifically the communication sector is fully liberalised. The opportunities for the private sector are therefore enormous and we should not blame the Government. It is in this forum that we recently discussed Madaraka PC and it was dismissed as unworkable. We did not bother to ask especially JKUAT where they have reached in developing components locally for the PC. Kenya has been in the forefront producing telephone equipment including switches at the Gilgil plant for the region. Indeed we have several firms seeking to start local production of mobile handsets at the facility but have been frustrated by a nother Kenyan who wanted to manufacture poles at the plant (The perils of Democracy). The case is still in court that we cannot discuss it here. We must be proud of our human resources for what they have done in the region. What we need to do now is to vigorously utilize this resources to exploit the opportunities - this if Adam Smith was a life will tell you that - let the private sector wake up. This is the pattern that the Newly Industrialized Nations of Asia followed. The Indians are going home from many countries to create real wealth. Regards Ndemo.
Thanks Dr Ochuodho for sharing this new development in Rwanda. Unfortunately, Kenya is once again beaten at our own game, not becaurse we lack, excellent technical manpower and facilities.., but becaurse we are too slow in policy development! Rwanda has carried the day, yet all the production parts pass through Kenya to Rwanda! We should learn to be fast in what we want to achieve, and not take years back and forth in board rooms. Dan Njiriri
--- On Sat, 9/6/08, Shem Ochuodho <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Shem Ochuodho <[email protected]> Subject: [kictanet] Rwanda Gets Localls Made/Assemled Handset To: [email protected] Cc: "Robert Onyango-Alai" <[email protected]>, "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008, 6:08 AM
Quoting: Rwanda ICT4D Community Network Rwanda get locally made handset -Network World 02/09/2008
A-Link Technologies, a Chinese electronics company, has unveiled its first mobile phone handsets manufactured in Rwanda. This makes Rwanda the first country in the region to sell locally manufactured mobile phones.
The manufacturing of the handsets follows a memorandum of understanding signed in 2006 between A-Link and the Rwanda Information Technology Authority, the country's telecom regulator. Read the latest WhitePaper - Monitor the core and troubleshoot the access layer with integrated network analysis solutions
The company plans to start selling the phones, called "Alira," in the 21 countries of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern African after they are officially launched in October and once production is stepped up, said A-Link CEO Yin Quing Ri.
"One of the phone models has been programmed with Kinyarwanda software so the Rwandese who uses their mother language can communicate easily," Ri said.
So far, the company has produced three models -- the A100, A200 and A300 -- and promises that several other models are in the works.
The phones feature color screens and radios, among other amenities.
The plant is manufacturing 100 handsets per day, though it has the capacity to produce 700 phones per day.
A-Link began operating in Rwanda last year, as the country is positioning itself to be an ICT hub in East Africa. _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet
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The problem with "newer" Kenyans is that they do not play teamwork rythm. The individual's high placement is far more important than collective acheivement of task ahead. End result? Myriad of fragmented efforts all trying to be small kings. This is my painful diagnosis and hey we either choose to swallow the bitter pill to collectively succeed or like striking patients at a ward, saying, "No more bitter pills!" - demanding of prescriptions of only sweet medicines from Doctors... See: "INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS, SOCIAL CAPITAL AND THE NEGOTIATED ECONOMY ..." http://www.adelinotorres.com/economia/Klaus%20Nielson_Institutional%20Econom... Recent Nordic research explains why Scandinavian GDP are the highest in the world. Love it or hate the messenger but, Enjoy Alex Several Scandinavian scientists have researched on the power of trust, and found out, that the high GDP of Scandinavia is partly based in a culture of trust. I quote: »Tillid i dag er en faktor til at forklare vækst. Alt andet lige, så har lande med høj tillid bedre uddannelse, bedre retslig kvalitet, bedre bureaukratisk kvalitet og højere vækst. Det er ganske enkelt, fordi det er lettere at lave aftaler og få samfundet til at glide. Det er kilden til den særlige sammenhængskraft, vi har. Og vi har gode grunde til at tro, at det har dybe, historiske rødder,« fortæller Christian Bjørnskov. "Trust is today a factor, if we shall explain growth. Countries with a high degree of trust has mostly better education,better justice system, better bureaucratic quality and a higher degree of growth. It's pretty simple, because these facotrs ease negotiations and business. Here we have the roots o f the "staying-together" that marks the Scandinavian society. Christian Bjørnskov, who is Ph.D., thinks that the expansion of the Viking-age is a splendid example on the benefits of trust(The Vikings were very eager to keep their promises.) * Læs mere her: Har vikingerne givet Danmark et højt BNP? <http://videnskab.dk/composite-411.htm> <http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fvidenskab.dk%2Fcomposite-411.htm&hl=fr&ie=UTF8&sl=da&tl=en> Gakuru, On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Dan Njiriri <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Dr Ndemo,
Thank you for your kind clarification on steps taken by Kenya on assembled electronics in Kenya. I am a strong bealiver in local industries and happy to let you know I have bought twenty Madaraka PCs from JKUAT Enterprises for our Tracom college teaching lab. They however need to develop local materials for the industry as oppossed to assembly only. Anyone can do that.
The Gilgil Telecommucations Industry should be nurtured and it is a pity what you have explained on someone turning it to posts treatment. What a shame and waste of developing industrial capacity! May the good Loard see the case to logical conclusion.
I fully agree with you that the private sector and the academia must wake-up and create the necessary industries and hence wealth. Once again thank you. Dan Njiriri
--- On Mon, 9/8/08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Rwanda Gets Localls Made/Assemled Handset To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected], "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <[email protected]>, "Robert Onyango-Alai" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, September 8, 2008, 7:24 AM
Dear Njiriri, There is nothing wrong with policy and we should not benchmark Kenya with Rwanda because the differences between the two countries are just too many. Compared to Kenya, Rwanda is where Kenya was in the 80's, centrally planned economy where the Government interferes with everything including the private sector. Granted there is virtually no private sector in Rwanda. We have spent most of the 90's privatizing that which was created by Government. The economy and more specifically the communication sector is fully liberalised. The opportunities for the private sector are therefore enormous and we should not blame the Government.
It is in this forum that we recently discussed Madaraka PC and it was dismissed as unworkable. We did not bother to ask especially JKUAT where they have reached in developing components locally for the PC. Kenya has been in the forefront producing telephone equipment including switches at the Gilgil plant for the region. Indeed we have several firms seeking to start local production of mobile handsets at the facility but have been frustrated by a nother Kenyan who wanted to manufacture poles at the plant (The perils of Democracy). The case is still in court that we cannot discuss it here.
We must be proud of our human resources for what they have done in the region. What we need to do now is to vigorously utilize this resources to exploit the opportunities - this if Adam Smith was a life will tell you that - let the private sector wake up. This is the pattern that the Newly Industrialized Nations of Asia followed. The Indians are going home from many countries to create real wealth.
Regards
Ndemo.
Thanks Dr Ochuodho for sharing this new development in Rwanda. Unfortunately, Kenya is once again beaten at our own game, not becaurse we lack, excellent technical manpower and facilities.., but becaurse we are too slow in policy development! Rwanda has carried the day, yet all the production parts pass through Kenya to Rwanda! We should learn to be fast in what we want to achieve, and not take years back and forth in board rooms. Dan Njiriri
--- On Sat, 9/6/08, Shem Ochuodho <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Shem Ochuodho <[email protected]> Subject: [kictanet] Rwanda Gets Localls Made/Assemled Handset To: [email protected] Cc: "Robert Onyango-Alai" <[email protected]>, "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <[email protected]
Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008, 6:08 AM
Quoting: Rwanda ICT4D Community Network
Rwanda get locally made handset -Network World 02/09/2008
A-Link Technologies, a Chinese electronics company, has unveiled its first mobile phone handsets manufactured in Rwanda. This makes Rwanda the first country in the region to sell locally manufactured mobile phones.
The manufacturing of the handsets follows a memorandum of understanding signed in 2006 between A-Link and the Rwanda Information Technology Authority, the country's telecom regulator. Read the latest WhitePaper - Monitor the core and troubleshoot the access layer with integrated network analysis solutions
The company plans to start selling the phones, called "Alira," in the 21 countries of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern African after they are officially launched in October and once production is stepped up, said A-Link CEO Yin Quing Ri.
"One of the phone models has been programmed with Kinyarwanda software so the Rwandese who uses their mother language can communicate easily," Ri said.
So far, the company has produced three models -- the A100, A200 and A300 -- and promises that several other models are in the works.
The phones feature color screens and radios, among other amenities.
The plant is manufacturing 100 handsets per day, though it has the capacity to produce 700 phones per day.
A-Link began operating in Rwanda last year, as the country is positioning itself to be an ICT hub in East Africa. _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet
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