Hello @Jonas. I now know you've gotten me competely wrong on the re-invention thing but am glad you brought it up. To clarify to developers, when I wrote about the said subject what I meant was about concepts. I know everyone uses frameworks or platforms to make their work load easier which is grand. We should be using all the tools available to get a fast turn around time on development. If you read my SMS gateway proposal, I suggested that devs should take Kannel and make it better for KE and Africa market thereby possibly creating an investment/business enviroments for themselves as the SMS market is set to grow further. When I asked you about the automation of the kenyan domain registration system , you wrote back that it would take much time and offered other alternatives. I understand time is not on our side but we are in 2010 and still do not have such a system in place. There are voids in our country on systems that developers have not ventured into or have entirely avoided. So while we can place an imported code system in place which I have no problem with, are we saying that we cannot create locally to try to compete with such systems? I say build it on open source if it is your area of development if you wish, but please build it because Kenya needs it.

Compare the skills + labour intensive nature of the masai-market world. These Artisans are no different from developers. Yet when you go each week to such markets, you can find all the products you need. Such artisans do not know who is going to buy their products and at what competitive price but they still develop their products. Let us learn from them and create the next revolution of the software industry with kenyan apps/software for local or export consumption. Let us create the Kiondos of the software world and do something. Such things will not come from me but from you and others who are very good within the dev world. The rest of us have a lot of catching up to do therefore I can only urge you forward.