just thinking out loud
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wonder whether the Chinese government will ever allow a kenyan company to tarmac their roads....
pray,
if we spent half the money, we are, on building thika road and sponsored 50 of our best brains to china as apprentices in their road building projects and they do the whole nine yards, i.e studying and building their experience base.... then we can do the roads for ourselves and the region ... perhaps?
when the government tenders for ICT projects, most of the awarded companies have a mother international company behind the bid....so when the job commences they hire (if they get to it) guys to do the manual part of the job( read fixing and setting up servers, installing programs, scanning documents et al.) and take the bulk of the money and leave some for the brokers...
my point ... perhaps the ICT board should push the serikali to only award locally developed concepts and programs... and this demand creation will snowball, even better sponsor the best pool again and let them learn from those mother companies and hence we develop our own resources.... i bet the annals of history will tell that's exactly what china did....
my 2 shillings
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