Hey Conrad, I've faith in the project and am grateful that iHub would have a place to run with it. :-) I'm already on another route as you are aware from the grid programming thread and this plus other things including travel is taking up all my time. I'd wish that others in the industry take up the idea and move it to implementation. I commit that as soon as I get the game " Kenyan Sniper - 6:30pm" version out to the public in about 12-16 months, I'd seriously consider a bash @iHub for kenyan game programmers and 3D artists. I hope, and with the help of others, to bring awareness and interest to this industry. Im pressed for time so will quickly write this. For starters, lets look at the basic end result first regarding Kenyan E-Index : - When I completed chekelea early last year, there were many methods discussed on how to push awareness and presence in the management. Costs ranged from 100k for a simple corner ad to main stream media running into millions. Advertising is very very expensive. Kenyan site owners cannot go it alone. A collective E-Index will do this very easily. Debate about charging those listed is not difficult. The business case exists and is the long term returns for the VC or investors of the project. Strong marketing of the E-Index is necessary to bring in numbers. Those numbers must be met by completions on either web or mobile platform. - Security : One pitfall of an online business that was immediately realised was the friday afternoon phone call " I need 20 laptops and now. Am faxing you the LPO.....please deliver. " After checking further it was a dodgy thing so orders were not processed. By creation of E-Index, it will be easier to share knowlegde amongst the online business community and create lists of say eg bad debtors, anti-fraud methods. - Positives : Accesible information is the key here. This demand is going to grow and grow. The net has easier acces now that it did even 12 months ago. Without an E-Index, all kenyan online sites/stores/services will be scattered all over and many may not have a reference point or time to search for them. It is vital to bring the information to handsets, devices and the web. If anyone has questions and wants to thrash out the E-Index project, pls mail your question/query to the list. I'll try my best to respond asap but pls do put your minds together to see the business case of the project. Question would be, as a dev or service provider, how can I financially benefit from this project? The rest will start flowing... With Best Rgds. On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
Aki, Why don't you flesh it out some more and run with it? The iHub will give you the space to work on it and opportunity to connect with anyone else interested.