As a final contribution to this thread, I take you on a comparison road. This is what Kenyans brokers are trying to copy : http://www.flickr.com/photos/zavie/2870555712/  while if you google any chinese software company, such things don't exist. Yeah, a coffee bar and lounge are really cool ideas but are they really productive? The answer to such will be clear in the next 3 years when China exceeds the US as a global business leader while companies like e.g. google maybe looking at retrenchments and cost cutting measures to stay afloat. What about Nokia, how much market share has it lost over the few years?

 

So in a nutshell, does any kenyan or company need funding to develop software or its ideas as a business model? Not really.  We don't even need any Tech Parks or the rest, what we need are companies and individuals that push out the tech stuff from the corner of his/her car garage and make something of it. The Tech Parks are really political ideas and will only benefit those who seek the above flickr link. Short term thinking, money to be made by using the word TECHNOLOGY yet not a TECHNOLOGIST.

 

Me thots. Over and out.  :-)