There is a lot that can be done, one of them, and key is education... what people like iHub, Nailab etc are doing. If you know how to engage with a VC, you will benefit... There are many companies today which have benefited greatly from VC and employ hundreds of people and really are entrepreneurial success stories... What we should be trying to figure out is why the companies succeeded....

Kenyan software developers also need to learn a lot... It's telling that the largest IT firms in Kenya are run by accountants/engineers, not software developers... We need to learn from people like Google and get some 'adult supervision' as it were, as in the formative stages of a business, fiscal mismanagement spells doom for an otherwise promising organization.

Tech parks are useful if you think about the cost of infrastructure... It's easier to design a city rigged with fibre from day one, then to deal with all the problems Nairobi has... The challenge of course is getting the requisite pull to get the developers etc there...

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 6:02 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:

I'd like to wrap up this thread, and in summary write that I've listed my thoughts on the subject. My hope is that at least some points could prove to be valuable to those in the industry. While we may not have the financial might, all we are asking is that ICT Board, Dr Ndemo and others in the govt look into creating the developers/software industry a lucrative market for both kenyans and international investors. Anything less than this, I'm sure any serious kenyan developer business will eventually want to enjoy the same benefits that are offered to international investors elsewhere.

Rgds.

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