On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Eva Kimathi <evakimathi@gmail.com> wrote:
@ Aki>Well, we have the JJ people for one, and then one of the skunkers shared a link with me that I hope he doesnot mind if i go public with...verviant.com we also have STL, if you have heard of e-horizon, then they are the developers. These offer solutions to internal and external companies and institutions that probably do not have the capacity to do so,which provides the companies a tool that will facilitate their business processes.
(i dont know much but i suspect KENCALL also do the same?)
I really like the Barcamp Idea!
Many of us Africans have a major inferiority complex. How does it manifest? In thinking and treating non African individuals, organizations and enterprises better than we do our own.
Local business executives and government officials doubt our web / software developers can deliver. Many of Kenyan techies also do not think local enterprises and institutions are worth doing good work for. So they run off to work in wherever they think is more worthy of them and ignore anything local - only to find themselves irrelevant - out of network - some years later and very unable to connect to local enterprises that would have given them more authority (equity or shares) - that foreigners NEVER offer Africans in particular.
Can you imagine someone who grew up hearing nothing good about Africa thinking an African is worth it? They even wonder why the African is trying to impress them so hard when they can tell that African cannot even do anything good for their fellow African. You yuppies, out there, do not let down Kenya like many of us already have. This is your country so Build it Up!