Bob Collymore; Yet to arrive
Hi Listers, I had a chance to catch my namesake Robert Collymore's on the bench interview rerun with Jeff Koinange and it was quite enlightening especially from how he answered the questions. For some reason Jeff was too mellow seems like he had been given a script which was unfortunate, his interview of one Kaguta Museveni was more punchy. As I listened to the interview it became clear that Bob has still not arrived in Kenya, he is here physically but his heart must have been lost in transit, airlines keep doing it with peoples luggage, he needs a chance to arrive. I would suggest that first someone takes him across to Njuguna's preferably after Mututho, best would be if it was with a non-safaricom supplier or staff member as he needs an orientation in Kenyanism. After this he needs to visit Kiamaiko and also watch a soccer match at Dandora or Kibera stadiums then he will be better placed to comment on the Kenyan. He might even be allowed to get aware with using terms like Kubafu and peculiar to describe us. Unlike MJ, Bob has come to occupy the sit at the top of an existing ivory tower that Micheal built, from where the view can be very deceiving and his lieutenants are likely to insulate him from what is happening on the ground. If he genuinely wants to sort our the rote within Safaricom and move the organisation into the future then he must descend from the ivory tower and order his heart back via express courier otherwise his stay shall be short and uneventful. You cannot appreciate the bigger picture if you have no contact with the sectoral one, the pixels make the picture. Just my take from the answers he gave to the soft questions that where rolled towards him. Regards Bob akaribishwe kimtaa Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
If this was facebook, I would said "like this" comment. I can't top up my credit via mpesa neither can I top up another number via the same mpesa since last week. Michael Ouma Journalist Kenya Tel:+254-725-537823 "Do not go where the path may lead, but go instead where there is no path and leave a trail," - Ralph Waldo Emerson ________________________________ From: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> To: benomnta@yahoo.com Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Fri, March 4, 2011 8:36:30 AM Subject: [kictanet] Bob Collymore; Yet to arrive Hi Listers, I had a chance to catch my namesake Robert Collymore's on the bench interview rerun with Jeff Koinange and it was quite enlightening especially from how he answered the questions. For some reason Jeff was too mellow seems like he had been given a script which was unfortunate, his interview of one Kaguta Museveni was more punchy. As I listened to the interview it became clear that Bob has still not arrived in Kenya, he is here physically but his heart must have been lost in transit, airlines keep doing it with peoples luggage, he needs a chance to arrive. I would suggest that first someone takes him across to Njuguna's preferably after Mututho, best would be if it was with a non-safaricom supplier or staff member as he needs an orientation in Kenyanism. After this he needs to visit Kiamaiko and also watch a soccer match at Dandora or Kibera stadiums then he will be better placed to comment on the Kenyan. He might even be allowed to get aware with using terms like Kubafu and peculiar to describe us. Unlike MJ, Bob has come to occupy the sit at the top of an existing ivory tower that Micheal built, from where the view can be very deceiving and his lieutenants are likely to insulate him from what is happening on the ground. If he genuinely wants to sort our the rote within Safaricom and move the organisation into the future then he must descend from the ivory tower and order his heart back via express courier otherwise his stay shall be short and uneventful. You cannot appreciate the bigger picture if you have no contact with the sectoral one, the pixels make the picture. Just my take from the answers he gave to the soft questions that where rolled towards him. Regards Bob akaribishwe kimtaa Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
The MPesa service is currently down... I tried depositing some funds an hour ago at two agents in Westlands and they told me the system is unavailable... On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Michael Ouma <benomnta@yahoo.com> wrote:
If this was facebook, I would said "like this" comment.
I can't top up my credit via mpesa neither can I top up another number via the same mpesa since last week.
Michael Ouma Journalist Kenya Tel:+254-725-537823
"Do not go where the path may lead, but go instead where there is no path and leave a trail," - Ralph Waldo Emerson
------------------------------ *From:* robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> *To:* benomnta@yahoo.com *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> *Sent:* Fri, March 4, 2011 8:36:30 AM *Subject:* [kictanet] Bob Collymore; Yet to arrive
Hi Listers,
I had a chance to catch my namesake Robert Collymore's on the bench interview rerun with Jeff Koinange and it was quite enlightening especially from how he answered the questions.
For some reason Jeff was too mellow seems like he had been given a script which was unfortunate, his interview of one Kaguta Museveni was more punchy.
As I listened to the interview it became clear that Bob has still not arrived in Kenya, he is here physically but his heart must have been lost in transit, airlines keep doing it with peoples luggage, he needs a chance to arrive.
I would suggest that first someone takes him across to Njuguna's preferably after Mututho, best would be if it was with a non-safaricom supplier or staff member as he needs an orientation in Kenyanism. After this he needs to visit Kiamaiko and also watch a soccer match at Dandora or Kibera stadiums then he will be better placed to comment on the Kenyan. He might even be allowed to get aware with using terms like Kubafu and peculiar to describe us.
Unlike MJ, Bob has come to occupy the sit at the top of an existing ivory tower that Micheal built, from where the view can be very deceiving and his lieutenants are likely to insulate him from what is happening on the ground.
If he genuinely wants to sort our the rote within Safaricom and move the organisation into the future then he must descend from the ivory tower and order his heart back via express courier otherwise his stay shall be short and uneventful. You cannot appreciate the bigger picture if you have no contact with the sectoral one, the pixels make the picture.
Just my take from the answers he gave to the soft questions that where rolled towards him.
Regards
Bob akaribishwe kimtaa
Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya
Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
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I wanted to load 40k last week and was only able to do so by going to three outlets, then sending it was another issue, not to mention some told me mkesho is now mkesho kutwa. :-) Sent from my iPhone. Njeri www.njeri-rionge.com On Mar 4, 2011, at 18:22, Michael Bullut <michael.bullut@gmail.com> wrote:
The MPesa service is currently down... I tried depositing some funds an hour ago at two agents in Westlands and they told me the system is unavailable...
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Michael Ouma <benomnta@yahoo.com> wrote: If this was facebook, I would said "like this" comment.
I can't top up my credit via mpesa neither can I top up another number via the same mpesa since last week.
Michael Ouma Journalist Kenya Tel:+254-725-537823
"Do not go where the path may lead, but go instead where there is no path and leave a trail," - Ralph Waldo Emerson
From: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> To: benomnta@yahoo.com Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Fri, March 4, 2011 8:36:30 AM Subject: [kictanet] Bob Collymore; Yet to arrive
Hi Listers,
I had a chance to catch my namesake Robert Collymore's on the bench interview rerun with Jeff Koinange and it was quite enlightening especially from how he answered the questions.
For some reason Jeff was too mellow seems like he had been given a script which was unfortunate, his interview of one Kaguta Museveni was more punchy.
As I listened to the interview it became clear that Bob has still not arrived in Kenya, he is here physically but his heart must have been lost in transit, airlines keep doing it with peoples luggage, he needs a chance to arrive.
I would suggest that first someone takes him across to Njuguna's preferably after Mututho, best would be if it was with a non- safaricom supplier or staff member as he needs an orientation in Kenyanism. After this he needs to visit Kiamaiko and also watch a soccer match at Dandora or Kibera stadiums then he will be better placed to comment on the Kenyan. He might even be allowed to get aware with using terms like Kubafu and peculiar to describe us.
Unlike MJ, Bob has come to occupy the sit at the top of an existing ivory tower that Micheal built, from where the view can be very deceiving and his lieutenants are likely to insulate him from what is happening on the ground.
If he genuinely wants to sort our the rote within Safaricom and move the organisation into the future then he must descend from the ivory tower and order his heart back via express courier otherwise his stay shall be short and uneventful. You cannot appreciate the bigger picture if you have no contact with the sectoral one, the pixels make the picture.
Just my take from the answers he gave to the soft questions that where rolled towards him.
Regards
Bob akaribishwe kimtaa
Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya
Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
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The service has been unaivalable for most of today, and especially after last weekend's upgrade of the system. Hope the technicians are springing into action, as google would say. ION, I remember MJ saying that he's subscribed Collymore to this list, but I've not seen him comment on some of the raised issues onlist. I wonder whether this is the cause of Robert's sentiments. On 04/03/2011, Njeri <njeri.rionge@igniteconsulting.co.ke> wrote:
I wanted to load 40k last week and was only able to do so by going to three outlets, then sending it was another issue, not to mention some told me mkesho is now mkesho kutwa. :-)
Sent from my iPhone.
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On Mar 4, 2011, at 18:22, Michael Bullut <michael.bullut@gmail.com> wrote:
The MPesa service is currently down... I tried depositing some funds an hour ago at two agents in Westlands and they told me the system is unavailable...
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Michael Ouma <benomnta@yahoo.com> wrote: If this was facebook, I would said "like this" comment.
I can't top up my credit via mpesa neither can I top up another number via the same mpesa since last week.
Michael Ouma Journalist Kenya Tel:+254-725-537823
"Do not go where the path may lead, but go instead where there is no path and leave a trail," - Ralph Waldo Emerson
From: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> To: benomnta@yahoo.com Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Fri, March 4, 2011 8:36:30 AM Subject: [kictanet] Bob Collymore; Yet to arrive
Hi Listers,
I had a chance to catch my namesake Robert Collymore's on the bench interview rerun with Jeff Koinange and it was quite enlightening especially from how he answered the questions.
For some reason Jeff was too mellow seems like he had been given a script which was unfortunate, his interview of one Kaguta Museveni was more punchy.
As I listened to the interview it became clear that Bob has still not arrived in Kenya, he is here physically but his heart must have been lost in transit, airlines keep doing it with peoples luggage, he needs a chance to arrive.
I would suggest that first someone takes him across to Njuguna's preferably after Mututho, best would be if it was with a non- safaricom supplier or staff member as he needs an orientation in Kenyanism. After this he needs to visit Kiamaiko and also watch a soccer match at Dandora or Kibera stadiums then he will be better placed to comment on the Kenyan. He might even be allowed to get aware with using terms like Kubafu and peculiar to describe us.
Unlike MJ, Bob has come to occupy the sit at the top of an existing ivory tower that Micheal built, from where the view can be very deceiving and his lieutenants are likely to insulate him from what is happening on the ground.
If he genuinely wants to sort our the rote within Safaricom and move the organisation into the future then he must descend from the ivory tower and order his heart back via express courier otherwise his stay shall be short and uneventful. You cannot appreciate the bigger picture if you have no contact with the sectoral one, the pixels make the picture.
Just my take from the answers he gave to the soft questions that where rolled towards him.
Regards
Bob akaribishwe kimtaa
Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya
Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
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Thanks Solomon Indeed there was an outage on M-PESA last evening whereby the connectivity between the local servers and the database in Germany temporarily failed. This was resolved last evening and apologies for the inconvenience Rgds Sent from my iPad On Mar 4, 2011, at 8:04 PM, "Solomon Mburu Kamau" <solo.mburu@gmail.com> wrote:
The service has been unaivalable for most of today, and especially after last weekend's upgrade of the system. Hope the technicians are springing into action, as google would say.
ION, I remember MJ saying that he's subscribed Collymore to this list, but I've not seen him comment on some of the raised issues onlist. I wonder whether this is the cause of Robert's sentiments.
On 04/03/2011, Njeri <njeri.rionge@igniteconsulting.co.ke> wrote:
I wanted to load 40k last week and was only able to do so by going to three outlets, then sending it was another issue, not to mention some told me mkesho is now mkesho kutwa. :-)
Sent from my iPhone.
Njeri
www.njeri-rionge.com
On Mar 4, 2011, at 18:22, Michael Bullut <michael.bullut@gmail.com> wrote:
The MPesa service is currently down... I tried depositing some funds an hour ago at two agents in Westlands and they told me the system is unavailable...
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Michael Ouma <benomnta@yahoo.com> wrote: If this was facebook, I would said "like this" comment.
I can't top up my credit via mpesa neither can I top up another number via the same mpesa since last week.
Michael Ouma Journalist Kenya Tel:+254-725-537823
"Do not go where the path may lead, but go instead where there is no path and leave a trail," - Ralph Waldo Emerson
From: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> To: benomnta@yahoo.com Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Fri, March 4, 2011 8:36:30 AM Subject: [kictanet] Bob Collymore; Yet to arrive
Hi Listers,
I had a chance to catch my namesake Robert Collymore's on the bench interview rerun with Jeff Koinange and it was quite enlightening especially from how he answered the questions.
For some reason Jeff was too mellow seems like he had been given a script which was unfortunate, his interview of one Kaguta Museveni was more punchy.
As I listened to the interview it became clear that Bob has still not arrived in Kenya, he is here physically but his heart must have been lost in transit, airlines keep doing it with peoples luggage, he needs a chance to arrive.
I would suggest that first someone takes him across to Njuguna's preferably after Mututho, best would be if it was with a non- safaricom supplier or staff member as he needs an orientation in Kenyanism. After this he needs to visit Kiamaiko and also watch a soccer match at Dandora or Kibera stadiums then he will be better placed to comment on the Kenyan. He might even be allowed to get aware with using terms like Kubafu and peculiar to describe us.
Unlike MJ, Bob has come to occupy the sit at the top of an existing ivory tower that Micheal built, from where the view can be very deceiving and his lieutenants are likely to insulate him from what is happening on the ground.
If he genuinely wants to sort our the rote within Safaricom and move the organisation into the future then he must descend from the ivory tower and order his heart back via express courier otherwise his stay shall be short and uneventful. You cannot appreciate the bigger picture if you have no contact with the sectoral one, the pixels make the picture.
Just my take from the answers he gave to the soft questions that where rolled towards him.
Regards
Bob akaribishwe kimtaa
Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya
Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
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Betty, On 3/5/11 7:38 AM, Betty Mwangi wrote:
Thanks Solomon
Indeed there was an outage on M-PESA last evening whereby the connectivity between the local servers and the database in Germany temporarily failed. This was resolved last evening and apologies for the inconvenience
From a technical stand-point the statement above can be easily interpreted as a technically flawed design IMHO. It almost states that
<rant> the M-PESA services are "entirely" dependent on connectivity to Germany. I doubt if this is the case and you may want to clarify. If it is the case - i have to say its quite a challenge on your hands to provide an efficient service for a local service that depends on international connectivity. </rant> Michuki.
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:07, Michuki Mwangi <michuki@swiftkenya.com> wrote:
Betty,
On 3/5/11 7:38 AM, Betty Mwangi wrote:
Thanks Solomon
Indeed there was an outage on M-PESA last evening whereby the connectivity between the local servers and the database in Germany temporarily failed. This was resolved last evening and apologies for the inconvenience
<rant>
From a technical stand-point the statement above can be easily interpreted as a technically flawed design IMHO. It almost states that the M-PESA services are "entirely" dependent on connectivity to Germany.
I doubt if this is the case and you may want to clarify. If it is the case - i have to say its quite a challenge on your hands to provide an efficient service for a local service that depends on international connectivity.
</rant>
Michuki.
I was going to rant about this too, but I decided not to, because something hit my mind: Since I have a Safaricom WiMax link which I use only for Int'l VoIP, them having to rely on DB servers in Germany is a good thing for me (perhaps) - that they will ensure my Int'l link never goes down:-))) The negative side to what Betty said is simply something about Kenya's IT infrastructure. That Safaricom does NOT have faith in having their servers hosted locally, since they don't trust having their servers in Kenya. Now, that is another minus for Safaricom! -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Damn!!
Gentlemen, Just to clarify the MPESA platform is the Vodafone money transfer platform you may have seen historically. There are many benefits from having the system centrally hosted but we do continue to review the pros and cons to ensure that the platform remains on the cutting edge of technology and also benefits from economies of scale through sharing resources with the other countries in which MPESA has been rolled out to. Best rgds Sent from my iPad On Mar 5, 2011, at 12:18 PM, "Odhiambo Washington" <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:07, Michuki Mwangi <michuki@swiftkenya.com> wrote:
Betty,
On 3/5/11 7:38 AM, Betty Mwangi wrote:
Thanks Solomon
Indeed there was an outage on M-PESA last evening whereby the connectivity between the local servers and the database in Germany temporarily failed. This was resolved last evening and apologies for the inconvenience
<rant>
From a technical stand-point the statement above can be easily interpreted as a technically flawed design IMHO. It almost states that the M-PESA services are "entirely" dependent on connectivity to Germany.
I doubt if this is the case and you may want to clarify. If it is the case - i have to say its quite a challenge on your hands to provide an efficient service for a local service that depends on international connectivity.
</rant>
Michuki.
I was going to rant about this too, but I decided not to, because something hit my mind: Since I have a Safaricom WiMax link which I use only for Int'l VoIP, them having to rely on DB servers in Germany is a good thing for me (perhaps) - that they will ensure my Int'l link never goes down:-)))
The negative side to what Betty said is simply something about Kenya's IT infrastructure. That Safaricom does NOT have faith in having their servers hosted locally, since they don't trust having their servers in Kenya. Now, that is another minus for Safaricom!
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What's the regulator's (CBK in this case) position on hosting of financial transaction data on overseas servers? Kind regards, *Muchiri* Nyaggah Director @muchiri +254 722 506400 Semacraft.com On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Michuki Mwangi <michuki@swiftkenya.com>wrote:
Betty,
On 3/5/11 7:38 AM, Betty Mwangi wrote:
Thanks Solomon
Indeed there was an outage on M-PESA last evening whereby the connectivity between the local servers and the database in Germany temporarily failed. This was resolved last evening and apologies for the inconvenience
<rant>
From a technical stand-point the statement above can be easily interpreted as a technically flawed design IMHO. It almost states that the M-PESA services are "entirely" dependent on connectivity to Germany.
I doubt if this is the case and you may want to clarify. If it is the case - i have to say its quite a challenge on your hands to provide an efficient service for a local service that depends on international connectivity.
</rant>
Michuki.
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Unless of course CBK is hosting and backing up its data overseas as well J Edwin From: kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Muchiri Nyaggah Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 12:20 PM To: Edwin Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] Bob Collymore; Yet to arrive What's the regulator's (CBK in this case) position on hosting of financial transaction data on overseas servers? Kind regards, Muchiri Nyaggah Director @muchiri +254 722 506400 Semacraft.com On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Michuki Mwangi <michuki@swiftkenya.com> wrote: Betty, On 3/5/11 7:38 AM, Betty Mwangi wrote:
Thanks Solomon
Indeed there was an outage on M-PESA last evening whereby the connectivity between the local servers and the database in Germany temporarily failed. This was resolved last evening and apologies for the inconvenience
From a technical stand-point the statement above can be easily interpreted as a technically flawed design IMHO. It almost states that
<rant> the M-PESA services are "entirely" dependent on connectivity to Germany. I doubt if this is the case and you may want to clarify. If it is the case - i have to say its quite a challenge on your hands to provide an efficient service for a local service that depends on international connectivity. </rant> Michuki. _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: muchiri@semacraft.com Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/muchiri%40semacraft.com
Thanks for this information Njeri - please can you send me the details of the outlets that failed to serve you so that we can take immediate action. Further we would like to assure you that M-KESHO is operational and if you experience any problems please do not hesitate to contact me. Regarding Mr Ouma's e mail below it is true that following the network upgrade last weekend there was a fault with M-PESA airtime top up for self and this has also been resolved. Please send me your contact details so that we can look into your specific issue if the problem is persisting. We apologize for the inconvenience. Best rgds Betty Mwangi - Thuo Sent from my iPad On Mar 4, 2011, at 6:39 PM, "Njeri" <njeri.rionge@igniteconsulting.co.ke> wrote:
I wanted to load 40k last week and was only able to do so by going to three outlets, then sending it was another issue, not to mention some told me mkesho is now mkesho kutwa. :-)
Sent from my iPhone.
Njeri
www.njeri-rionge.com
On Mar 4, 2011, at 18:22, Michael Bullut <michael.bullut@gmail.com> wrote:
The MPesa service is currently down... I tried depositing some funds an hour ago at two agents in Westlands and they told me the system is unavailable...
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Michael Ouma <benomnta@yahoo.com> wrote: If this was facebook, I would said "like this" comment.
I can't top up my credit via mpesa neither can I top up another number via the same mpesa since last week.
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From: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> To: benomnta@yahoo.com Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Fri, March 4, 2011 8:36:30 AM Subject: [kictanet] Bob Collymore; Yet to arrive
Hi Listers,
I had a chance to catch my namesake Robert Collymore's on the bench interview rerun with Jeff Koinange and it was quite enlightening especially from how he answered the questions.
For some reason Jeff was too mellow seems like he had been given a script which was unfortunate, his interview of one Kaguta Museveni was more punchy.
As I listened to the interview it became clear that Bob has still not arrived in Kenya, he is here physically but his heart must have been lost in transit, airlines keep doing it with peoples luggage, he needs a chance to arrive.
I would suggest that first someone takes him across to Njuguna's preferably after Mututho, best would be if it was with a non-safaricom supplier or staff member as he needs an orientation in Kenyanism. After this he needs to visit Kiamaiko and also watch a soccer match at Dandora or Kibera stadiums then he will be better placed to comment on the Kenyan. He might even be allowed to get aware with using terms like Kubafu and peculiar to describe us.
Unlike MJ, Bob has come to occupy the sit at the top of an existing ivory tower that Micheal built, from where the view can be very deceiving and his lieutenants are likely to insulate him from what is happening on the ground.
If he genuinely wants to sort our the rote within Safaricom and move the organisation into the future then he must descend from the ivory tower and order his heart back via express courier otherwise his stay shall be short and uneventful. You cannot appreciate the bigger picture if you have no contact with the sectoral one, the pixels make the picture.
Just my take from the answers he gave to the soft questions that where rolled towards him.
Regards
Bob akaribishwe kimtaa
Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya
Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
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Robert, I watched Bob Collymore on the bench today. There were many great things he said including about staff working 24 hrs to upgrade the systems and how laying off of staff due to market changes will imply management failure. The comment that a primary school child in Kisumu does not know who the President of Kenya was wrong. Kids in primary school (nursery school and toddlers I may add) not only know the President but can imitate him as well. Also while all the sky diving info was interesting most Kenyans may not know what sky diving is. Yes, culturally Bob has his work cut out. But perhaps he does'nt need to do the work. He can accept that unlike Michael he is upper crust and may never catch the pulse of wanainchi. He could create a posh but caring CEO image that Kenyans can identify with - start flying choppers to meetings in dark glasses, buy car models that are only seen in movies, wear pink shirts with lavender ties, get the bling going etc If however, he does want to be a local, besides eating in Njuguna's and visiting Kiamaiko, he can watch our great soaps. Actually, I recommend these for Kenyans who could be loosing touch with the mass culture. To catch up with what the kids are up to listen to 97.1 FM (one FM), watch Machachari, Sakata (great dancing) and Tahidi High. For all age groups watch Papa Shirandula, Mother in Law, the Wedding Show and the energised evangelical programmes on Sunday morning. So without getting too dusty in Kiamaiko, Bob can catch the Kenyan drift. regards, Wamuyu -- Soko ID Co. Ltd Tel: +254 (0)721 468699 http://www.soko-id.co.ke/ Soko ID is an innovative company that supports public organisations and promotes the Kenyan heritage on the internet. Quoting robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk>:
Hi Listers,
I had a chance to catch my namesake Robert Collymore's on the bench interview rerun with Jeff Koinange and it was quite enlightening especially from how he answered the questions.
For some reason Jeff was too mellow seems like he had been given a script which was unfortunate, his interview of one Kaguta Museveni was more punchy.
As I listened to the interview it became clear that Bob has still not arrived in Kenya, he is here physically but his heart must have been lost in transit, airlines keep doing it with peoples luggage, he needs a chance to arrive.
I would suggest that first someone takes him across to Njuguna's preferably after Mututho, best would be if it was with a non-safaricom supplier or staff member as he needs an orientation in Kenyanism. After this he needs to visit Kiamaiko and also watch a soccer match at Dandora or Kibera stadiums then he will be better placed to comment on the Kenyan. He might even be allowed to get aware with using terms like Kubafu and peculiar to describe us.
Unlike MJ, Bob has come to occupy the sit at the top of an existing ivory tower that Micheal built, from where the view can be very deceiving and his lieutenants are likely to insulate him from what is happening on the ground.
If he genuinely wants to sort our the rote within Safaricom and move the organisation into the future then he must descend from the ivory tower and order his heart back via express courier otherwise his stay shall be short and uneventful. You cannot appreciate the bigger picture if you have no contact with the sectoral one, the pixels make the picture.
Just my take from the answers he gave to the soft questions that where rolled towards him.
Regards
Bob akaribishwe kimtaa
Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya
Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
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Betty Mwangi -
Edwin Onchari -
Michael Bullut -
Michael Ouma -
Michuki Mwangi -
Muchiri Nyaggah -
Njeri -
Odhiambo Washington -
robert yawe -
Solomon Mburu Kamau -
Wamuyu Gatheru