@Peter, thanks and am sure you are correct that Ndemo and Kukubo are very approachable people, surely a breed of intelligent and reasonable individuals. However, by now you must know that for me to be objective and offer any sort of critic, I cannot be part of the system. This is what helps me understand and bring out the issues and also stops me from becoming a member say e.g. the iHub or even when I proposed the software developers association. By not being in the system, nor having any conflicts of interest, is a tight line to walk and talk. I cannot be pro/against ICT board and not look at the realities in the industry. This is why the other list, i.e. the stakeholders one, is just talk and they never have any intelligent meaningful discussions because I'm certain that every individual within that list is tied to the govt in some business way or another.
If Ndemo and Kukubo really want to help Kenya achieve its goals within the tech sector, they will only find the very partial ideas/comments on a stakeholder list. But they will surely find it here on skunks however unreasonable discussion they might come across on this list. It is for us to ensure that the issues are brought out and hopefully find their way into the system for further discussions and implementation.
Asante. :-)
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Peter Karunyu
<pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
@aki, you have some excellent ideas, but let me challenge you a bit....
Write an email to Bitange Ndemo, ask him for a meeting, print these ideas and go discuss with him. Chances are you will get Kukubo in that meeting. From experience, both of them are very approachable.
Bottom line, don't wait for someone to take these excellent ideas you have and do something with them, you yourself take the initiative!