Really splendid ideas, totally worth pursuing.

I can't remember the book, but I once read that there are 4 different kinds of people. The hare (tactical: runs quickly from idea to idea, activity to activity), the owl (strategic: seas the whole picture ), the tortoise (slow, but reliably sticks with a project till it's finished) and the squirrel (avid worker, wholly focused on the present tasks at the expense of the whole picture). And that the genius of a team is in leveraging the strengths, and eliminating the concomitant weaknesses of those traits. I would be skeptical of splitting 5 billion people into 4 personality types if Konosuke Matsushita (the panasonic creator) had not gone on and on about the "hare" and the "tortoise" in one of his autobiographies.

So I'm one with those calling for teams. And I urge those who fear that their ideas will be stolen, to either form teams and implement, or share them for others to do that. If you don't someone else will.

Bernard
 
"If we cannot make a profit, that means we are committing a sort of crime against society. We take society's capital, we take their people, we take their materials, yet without a good profit, we are using precious resources that could be better used elsewhere."
- Konosuke Matsushita


From: aki <aki275@googlemail.com>
To: Skunkworks forum <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
Sent: Thu, June 3, 2010 2:10:08 AM
Subject: [Skunkworks] KICT Board Grants and sharing ideas.

For those who have read the KICTB brief and are going for it,
excellent move. For those who are skilled and may not have some ideas
to work with, I share these ideas as I cannot focus on them due to
personal constraints . Though I've not seen the RFP application forms,
if anyone has already done so, they could help others get the process
going incase there are clarifications needed. ( Deadline for
submitting complete application forms is July 19, 2010. )

Ladies, Gents. This thread is to share those ideas that you may not
have time to start or complete but someone else on the list can take
up and benefit from. Your ideas may also be a wish list that you want
to see happen and could lead to better ideas. However time is short
for those interested, we have to ensure that the KICTB grant
opportunity is not lost.

IDEAS SUMMARY LIST ( incase they are useful to you ) :

1) Archive and Digitization of the Kenya National Museums : Create an
online archive and searchable system. Each item needs to be scanned
into image format with a water mark. The archives will provide a low
image resolution for thumbnails preview and caption information about
each asset. The assets will restrict high resolution images to paid
categories. The archive database will be fully searchable by tags in
caption like description, date, category etc. The system developed
should be user friendly so that anyone who is the archive
administrator can upload, edit and save content.

2) Historical Kenya : The National Archives and Kenya's journey over
time. We have one of the greatest discoveries right in our backyard.
Then after there is not much public information easily available nor
informative. Do we have cave paintings? Do we have BC/AD timelines and
what transpired? What impact did Shaka Zulu have on Kenya? Why is it
that some local traditional dancers dress are simlar to those of the
Zulu traditional dancers? This would be an interesting timeline
project. An online system similar to 1) above.

3) A portal Mapping of all National Parks with GPS : Everyone knows
how difficult it is to navigate in such areas. An old idea but with
edge/grps. A site portal with single webcam feed of each possible
location and integration over mobile devices. Example : Each year
thousands of wildbeasts cross the mara, yet no one can predict the
excat time. This year the rivers are full, crocodiles in plenty but
also plenty of grass. So will they cross in larger or smaller numbers?
Having a webcam feed that DOES NOT capture the event live but only
streams small frames. Afterall you want people to visit and see the
event in realtime, not on a desktop.

4) Nepad portal : This was suggested a while back but did anyone ever
get it going?

Rgds,

Me thots.
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