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Julisha National ICT Survey Results released by Kenya ICT Board
by Paul Kukubo 24 Nov '11

24 Nov '11

Listers Kenya ICT Board on wednesday released the findings of the National ICT Survey Julisha. Results can be found here. http://www.ict.go.ke/index.php/julisha/402-mae-national-research-study-dubb…. The research commissioned by the Kenya ICT Board's monitoring and evaluation team, was a combination of field work and reviews secondary research to establish critical baselines with respect to the ICT Sectotr in Kenya. Indeed this announcement of the proposed study was made is this mailing list a few months ago. Of particular interest to the Kenya ICT Board is that we now have a market size figure of the ICT sector. Kenya's ICT sector, excluding telco revenues, in 2010 sits at USD 740m with 78% hardware, 9% software and 12% services. Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18%. We estimate it to get to USD 1bn by 2013. The results also tracked skills requirements and indicated that Kenya would need another 10,000 odd IT professional in the next 3 years to meet sector needs. 23% of IT professionals are in IT help desk. The greatest skill shortages are in software development and IT project management. We have received many comments, requests and pointers for clarification through phone calls, email, Twitter, Linked in and Facebook already. We welcome comments on the Julisha Survey before we re publish a final report. Most decision makers in ICT will find this a true digest of information. Paul Kukubo CEO, Kenya ICT Board -- Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya 12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960 Fax: +254 20 2211962 website: www.ict.go.ke local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya twitter:@tandaaKENYA BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke personal contacts _______________ Cell: + 254 717 180001 skype: kukubopaul googletalk: pkukubo personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke personal twitter: @pkukubo ____________________ Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment

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Hiring Virtual Campus / eSchool Specialist
by Isaac Ochieng 24 Nov '11

24 Nov '11

Equity Group Foundation in partnership with Equity Bank, MasterCard Foundation, UKaid and USAID runs the Wings to Fly Program, USAID/EGF Scholarship & Leaders Program and the Equity Bank University Sponsorship Program which together comprise more than 2,100 high school students and more than 1,400 post high school scholars and professionals in more than 450 institutions. An additional 2,000 students join the Wings to Fly Program in Jan. 2012 as part of a 6,600-student, 9-year, $70m commitment to the Wings to Fly program. Equity Group Foundation seeks to extensively leverage IT to manage its scholarship, academic and leadership development programs and seeks to hire a professional to help define, implement and manage a virtual campus comprising its students/scholars. Anyone interested may contact me off-list for more information. Isaac.

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(no subject)
by Raymond Rono 24 Nov '11

24 Nov '11

Please subscribe phkimetu(a)yahoo.co.in Philiph Kilonzo -- Raymond Rono, raymond.rono(a)gmail.com. 'One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.'

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Why Wikipedia beats them all...in my view!
by bernard kioko 24 Nov '11

24 Nov '11

If you read this comparison between Wikipedia, Yahoo and Google, you should understand why i think Wikipedia beats all these other sites. The text below is from the Wikipedia Site so it might be biased...but >From Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales Google might have close to a million servers. Yahoo has something like 13,000 staff. We have 679 servers and 95 staff. Wikipedia is the #5 site on the web and serves 450 million different people every month – with billions of page views. Commerce is fine. Advertising is not evil. But it doesn't belong here. Not in Wikipedia. Full read: https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserLandingPage?uselang=en&…

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Steve Balmers nightmare
by Evans Ikua 24 Nov '11

24 Nov '11

Some interesting reading: Could Microsoft actually collapse? Be the judge: http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-ballmers-nightmare-how-microsofts-busi…

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What Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, And SAP Don't Tell Customers
by Peter Muchemi 24 Nov '11

24 Nov '11

What Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, And SAP Don't Tell Customers - *Microsoft mainly wants to protect Windows<http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/windows>and Office. *Microsoft is a platform company, and its main goal is to protect its highly lucrative Windows and Office monopolies, while establishing other platforms that will be hard for customers to break away from later. New functionality is "drip fed" to users of those core platforms, but new products exist to protect the core. He advised extreme caution before moving to Office 365, and said not to slip into an "all-Microsoft" mentality. - *Oracle products don't really work well together. *Oracle's sales force is extremely aggressive about pushing a suite of products, but has much fewer integration points than SAP. In fact, integration is usually left entirely up to the customer. Oracle is also very reluctant to talk about product roadmaps for fear that future products will cannibalize existing ones. The company makes more than 90% of its profits through maintenance fees, and will do whatever it takes to keep those fees flowing in. Gaughan also expressed some surprise that so many customers keep working with Oracle despite reporting that Oracle is "the most difficult vendor to deal with." - *IBM wants to take over your IT strategy. *IBM bills itself as a thought leader, but its real business is selling consulting services. To thrive, IBM account managers try to take control of a company's IT strategy so they can keep pushing new products. Gaughan recommends taking a collaborative or partner approach. - *SAP confuses customers with pricing. *A lot of SAP customers ask Gartner for help figuring out SAP's pricing and licensing, as SAP has unusual terms for billing data going into and out of systems. Gaughan also said that a big technology transition that was driving SAP revenue for the last few years -- moving existing customers from the old R/3 system to the newer Business Suite -- is almost done, which means SAP will have to be more aggressive with maintenance fees. He recommended locking in maintenance prices now. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/what-microsoft-oracle-ibm-and-sap-dont-tell-… Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/what-microsoft-oracle-ibm-and-sap-dont-tell-… -- Peter Muchemi Software Developer/Entrepreneur http://www.software.co.ke +254 722 320986

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LPI exam lab
by Evans Ikua 24 Nov '11

24 Nov '11

Dear Skunks, The next LPI Community exam lab will be held on 3rd December. If interested to sit any of the LPI Certification exams, please get in touch with me and I will give you further details. LPI is the global leader in the certification of Linux and Open Source skills - www.lpi.org Sorry for cross-posting. Good day all, Ikua

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Re: [Skunkworks] Strictly for Developers only : Why does this guy have the fire?
by Erick Njenga 24 Nov '11

24 Nov '11

Great video. Towards the end he talks about SaaS and how he's against it. How practical is it to give everyone a local copy of SaaS program to run locally? Sent from my BlackBerry Torch®

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Hezbollah beats the CIA
by ty 24 Nov '11

24 Nov '11

Enjoy http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_HEZBOLLAH_CIA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOM… -tyrus

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Triple Play brings new dawn to enterprise business <AD>
by olie.ndegwa 24 Nov '11

24 Nov '11

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