I'd be very surprised if there was no one currently developing, or at least doing R&D on Flex and AIR locally. Taking up new technologies is something that should be driven by personal and professional initiative rather than spoon-feeding.

In fact i'd be much more interested if the government portals were built on Silverlight or AIR given that they offer benefits like offline use, integration with hardware (printers/scanners/modems). That to me would truly be using technology to deliver services to Kenyans instead of the tired old route of customizing joomla and providing 'download form and print' links.

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Murigi Muraya <mmskunkworks@gmail.com> wrote:
Looks like we'll have to wait for those guys going for the Adobe Programming seminar(s) to (learn to) demonstrate to us what Adobe Technologies can do. Why get free lunch(es) and not return Adobe the favor? They are no doubt the most advanced (feature wise) but word has it that simpler tools are also working well for those unable (due to time or legacy constraints) to master Adobe Technologies.

http://digitalproducer.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=731814

Lets do something (Animated) in October this year. Give interested parties some months to learn / master some (Flex / JavaFx / Silverlight) stuff to showcase. Maybe the Kenya ICT Board will sponsor this event - again put its money where its declarations are about promoting local content. Problem with Corporate sponsors (Microsoft, Google, Adobe etc) is that they may lock out competitor technologies from such an event.