March 29th, 2006
Progress in Kenya ICT sector?
Posted by
Ory Okolloh in
Kenya
After numerous fits and starts, it looks like we could be making progress. A new initiative has been launched to make Kenya the ICT capital of Africa by 2010. Those of you who are based in the diaspora and are interested in participating in this initiative can join the diaspora task force.
The Ministry of Information website is also looking like it’s on the path to improvement. I guess that’s what happens when we have a switched on minister who doesn’t think that a mouse is a small panya 
Hat tip Martin M.!
on March 29th, 2006 at 5:00
this is good news ,seems the recent meetings have started bearing fruit .hopefully by then the fiber project will be completed and the current infrastructural hiccups w forgotten , lets just hope this doesnt turn out to be another white elephant in our backyard .
however the min of information site is in a dire need of a make over , reminds me of the early days of the internet
I’m succumbing to low expectations!
on March 29th, 2006 at 5:59
I must credit Dr. Mutua’s (gov. spokesman) office for souping up their website (for other reasons entirely) long before new minsiter arrived.
on March 29th, 2006 at 7:32
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on March 29th, 2006 at 12:24
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on March 30th, 2006 at 13:41
good news - but i think we are missing something that we ar egood at - i.e biotech i mean we have KEMRI,KARI,ICRAF,ICIPE and they all do reseacrch for multinationals like monsanto, wellcome and even the USA army has researchers / kenyan researchers working for them. so why dont we build on this - also we should try to become a hub of basic science research - the US is coming short of scientist that are doing basic scienec reserach and we have a surplus of people doing basic sccienec degrees who end up being UT’s
on March 5th, 2007 at 8:23
Those were good news. I wonder if they’re still goodas of now. However lets look at it in a different angle, I tend to believe we have serious programmers in kenya, but this is so shamful guys that no results show if you search for any s/ware makers in kenya nor are there forums where we can share things in a common language en as if that is not enough, no website in kenya ofers free hosting in kenya. so so bad. we are always hoping for better things.
on August 1st, 2007 at 10:34