Watson, Ndungu, you've aired and shared.
Where's the starting point?
On Aug 28, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Watson Kambo wrote:
I think, first of all we need to show our presence to the world, how;
1. Start with uplifting our micro - industly which I think Juakali fall under, evolve from using a sledge hammer to make a pan to hydro press for the same, this way we will be building a future here.
2. we now have the fiber and hopefully internet will not only be fast but available, how about starting with the software innovations these do not require 1 billion, just you brain a working PC , hopefully no blackouts, blah blah if we can hack the simple stuff then we can hack the big stuff.
And many other things like Agriculture ....
I believe if we started with this small stuff then we would evolve with time just like India and china has to be in the forefront.
My two cents
Watson
2009/8/28 ndungu stephen
<ndungustephen@gmail.com>
Well,
I would personally have liked to be involved in a research I have just described --- but one would need a good physics lab
[ with electron microscopes, a dust free environment, an sub atomic accelerators and stabilizers etc etc ] not forgetting a good theory team of the best mathematic, physics and programmers at your disposal..
What I have just described is what several countries are funding to come up with the technologies we have today...
It takes years dedication and harassing governments and companies to release funds and create such lab facilities to do just one step of the process... mind you, most of these, if they do not succeed- just end up with 'useless' facts that do not have application in real life [for example- an electron has never really been seen, but certain physics traces can confirm its existence]
That is not likely to happen in developing countries ... I dont want to be negative,
But:
We are still dealing with basic needs [deforestation, uneven food distribution, black outs, domestic and international debt, subsaharan africa has the most influx of disease and outbreaks] and political leadership alignments almost every waking hour of the day...
Sweden - with a GDP of almost 38,000 dollars - with almost negligible deaths per year - has produced some of the best research in recent years, and funded most of it -- among others - gsm, wcdma, 4g LTE [currently]...
Sweden can afford it and provide me with the neccesary, if I promise them results and show them a good plan -
Can the Ministy of Finance Kenya allocate 1 billion dollars [from their hard earned budget <330.gif> ] for my replicator ?
What about local companies ? Because as individuals, we cant hack it -
-- But we can stand on the shoulders of giants and 'borrow' like the chinese do - and mabbe add one or two improvements [ e.g a dual sim feature ]
-- Or we can build on patented research once the preliminary lab work has been done and published - we can can up with some very nice innovations
--
Just my thots :-)
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