@Crystal, to try and answer your question on whether we would be given a chance, I think that would I've been a good system programmer at the end of my study completion my nearest chance of any success would be to have discussed e.g the e-Health program with say Safaricom, other major telcos and even Mobile Vendors. And this is where the might of Corporates like Safaricom can really push their weight because of the system design and technology ownership. Safaricom so far has been looking at developers with tiny apps and blind, it has never had the proper department nor people to realize that it has been shooting itself in the leg in terms of business growth ( unfortunately, I can say no more...... ). So while we may start lacking people who want to produce a joint venture so as to build a future in the high tech sector, there are always options. Imagine if Safaricom created, deployed and made the e-Health system available to its millions of subscribers, no govt initiative nor brokers can match that kind of success. But there is always an emphasis that local companies and individuals etc should come together. If anyone has learnt about the success of the Real Estate Industry and major property developments, they will notice that these are groups of people who came together to form the backbone of investment companies that made the developments possible.@Erick, if what you write is true, then I stand by my earlier threads that govts are following the two tier programs where they exactly know what they are doing but prefer to pretend about such developments. If this is the case, then unfortunately the games and the mis-informations being done in the name of local development are really non-productive. It would be even more sad that some University in Norway is using Open Source to produce the e-Health system for kenya while there is literally an army and strong following of Open Source developers and companies in kenya. Somehow, it would show us how bad the situation has become that even Open Source has not been left untouched by international policies and grants. Somehow when I watched the budget today, The Hon Minister of Finance was splasing millions and billions here and there, I was just amazed at the target of 780billion to be raised between 2011-2012.Me thots.
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