@Barrack, some thoughts.. Challenges? There are no challenges except those created to look as entreprenuership opportunities. Access to electricity should be a fundamental human right, just a food and water. So why are we so bent on creating business avenues on basic essentials which should exist in the first place? What are taxes for? We are not new to clouds and know what the benefits and reach of cloud based services are, have also run various test-beds a few years ago. There is a very small market for cloud services in kenya, and the telecomunication sector cannot operate networks on mission critical status to justify such critical needs of cloud based services. The costs of creating dedicated networks far outnumber the need. Govt digitization projects should have provided a 5 year catalyst basis. BUT, IMHO, all this cloud talk is just for govt to get into bed with a ppp partner, scream that they have created kibarua ict jobs and create entrepreneurs who can supply (imported ) condoms for the project, nothing else. Have local ISPs and Telcos ever been invited to bid and build out the digitization govt projects ? Rgds. :-) On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com>wrote:
Thank you Dr. Ndemo, Washi and Dennis for your insightfull responses, allow me to side with Daktari that we look at our challenges from a positive angle, with all the points that you have brought up which are very valid, i take us back to Dr. Ndemo hoping i don't misquote him who outlined some key milestones that the government of Kenya has attained in so far as cloud computing is concerned, he also underscored the fact that the policy is being revised and that the policy team will be following the discussions keenly, i am not sure if i missed this in one of his responses but is there need for a National Cloud Computing Strategy given that the issues that affect the Stability of the cloud are outside the domain of Ministry of Infocom, i came across http://www.cio.gov/documents/Federal-Cloud-Computing-Strategy.pdf, your take listers?