im guessing the initiative to digitize did not come from GOK but as a proposal to GOK by google. (correct me if im wrong), which would place it alongside other efforts that have been in oplace to digitize. Which leads credence to the question: So if it came from some software company that was innovative enough to think of it to grow its core business, why demand some piece of the action just because you belong to Kenya. Kinda reminds me of the bad Mugabe policies on farmlands transfer to blacks... as for the funding, thats a moral issue. there is soo much we are funding that we ought not to that even talking about it causes me migraines. starting from a certain board to explore ways of establishing nuclear power in the country...... On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:32 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
@Areba. Bottomline is this :
*a) Google is providing a digitization platform *
Who choose Google as the platform? Why has the digitization platform not been done locally and to innovative visions by local software/developer companies?
*b) World Bank Funding the project :*
Why is the WB funding the project? Does it mean we have no money to do it ourselves?
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