@aki you invariably fail to appreciate a couple of things: 1: The Kenyan Identity is very fluid. Michael Joseph may even be Kenyan, or that gentleman who emigrated from australia in the seventies (or more practically the mzungu guy who worked his butt off and travelled by road from zimbabwe to nanyuki to establish what is now a multi million dollar farm. 2: Being fluid therefore means unless an empirical method of determining kenyan-ness, there are no absolutes. You may claim to be more kenyan than the asian that emigrated to build the railway but your ancestors probably got some other thong wearing natives that are more Kenyan than you... 3: That said, Kenya does not exist in isolation, you only need to look at the predicament facing the Colonel up north, or what transpired in Ivory coast. We are producers and consumers of services to and from the "NOT LOCAL".
From what i get then, you are interested in us Seeking local funds, to fund local developers, to develop applications for government so that services can be cheaper to locals..... Is it just me seeing an absurdity in this logic?
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:14 PM, ndungu stephen <ndungustephen@gmail.com>wrote:
@ aki
Now using your anecdotal - is what some of us find it difficult to achieve...
January a multi-million kenya shilling company tells you do make a program for them (or web portal). you take the specs and start working on it. you have/hire your own work force to achieve. no money yet
February
the specs change; they add more stuff; they want a database and comments. you put your work force to task. no money yet. but you are paying the programmers.
March
they want google maps added in their contact page so guys can find them. you speak/get permission from google and do that too. no money yet.
April
they want you to digitize some of their documents so the top managers can access them from around the world. you prepare the necessary web securities etc and add that too. no money yet.
May something else added. no money yet.
June, July, August, September,
By December, you have a webportal to match Yahoo/MSN in features. No money yet.
January next year - Time for pay.
Time for a demo. Some top woman exec is not really happy about the color; You work on that too. Your invoice is delayed.
February
Apparently the funds are not allocated to pay you for your services..But meanwhile, they can be using the web-portal while we wait for the end of fiscal year; which comes in June.
June
They have used the webportal; you have changed the small issues they raised. And the CEO is transferred to another country; or the PS (if working for Gova) is shuffled by Kibaki to another ministry.
August
They decide that your company is too expensive and decide to look for another contractor. Or the government ministry decides that the 'webportal' is not up to international standards; the previous PS had a different view; the new PS will source for international tenders.
=== @ Aki And that is why.
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