Which brings me to this: I have been thinking about this; I am one of the many that are on the 'shafted/not paid for work' list. Since we are such a mob, why don't we come up with a guild for IT startups/consultants. Pay the guild a monthly fee of a few 100s bob and put one or two lawyers on a retainer?
We can structure it this way:
* Say we have 500 members and each person contributes 200 bob/month ~ 100, 000 KES.
* If you have a need legal assistance; for a non payment complaint or want some help setting up a business, you pay a small fee (~ 1000k to prevent abuse of the system) and the rest is covered by the common pool.
* To prevent new/transient members from abusing the system, set up a minimum initiation period (~ 6 months) after joining where you either pay a higher fee or have restricted access to the system.
* We can also provide advisory services to members. For example, a client black list to prevent future abuse.