Didn't want anything to mention regarding where you work. wanted to link on In. :D but just a note on your first mail.

Jared. I don't think saying " The same noise Aki is making was the same noise companies like Kirinyaga construction and the other local companies used to make" is well.. cool. it's simply a matter of do you know what Aki does? do you know who he is? for all we know, he's simply trying to steer our minds in the right direction.

im glad you're objective about the whole thing.

I don't think we lack capacity. Or skill for that matter. I think we're just lazy.

But that's just my take.
 
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On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
@AKI

Where then, does the localizing road come to a close? Do we refuse to buy external servers and insist on manufacturing our own PC's? Do we do the same for the cell phone?  We have to look at the amount of time it will cost us to develop the local apps and the total opportunity cost... 

Here is a suggestion, there is a tonne of .go.ke data to be digitized e.g. Police abstracts, OB's etc.. Why not start there?

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:56 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
@Brianiac, inline below:


 
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:45 PM, [ Brainiac ] <arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:
Thats where you get it all wrong my brother, You do not stop breathing just because you can contract flu. Dont Get me wrong, there is those of us busy talking about it in this list, then there is those busy working with the tools in their hands to offer solutions.
 
Good for them. :-) Those who are busy selling while we are busy creating an important awareness, in the long term it will all tie together.
 
 

What i dont get (and dont bother, ill never understand the rationale) is the need to Kenyanize everything yet the tools we would use are not Kenyan. Do you notice the domain extension for your email address dude?

 
 
Nice try, but your argument is invalid like a bottomless pit. :-)))) How low level we can go to localise is dependent on us, unfortunately there is a very small % that thinks along these lines so we are stuck with trying to balance how low levels should be.

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