Aki,
Quick question, how, without donor funding VC etc, do you propose to have this system up and running?
There is a paper I wrote on the subject, will share with you in a while... What you are talking about is akin to sitting down with a shotgun and forcing the Mona Lisa out of Da Vinci (well, at the time, probably his Giant Crossbow, but that's neither here nor there).
The Kenya ICT Board has more than one mandate. Accessibility of the KG from the early years is more important in the grand scheme of things than *who* does it, if you lok at collective good.... You can work on getting entrepreneurs in other sectors. Even then, the KG is really Kenya Government property by it's very nature, and should you feel sufficiently motivated to create such a system, why not? I'm sure the government will not frown on a local system that works.... Isn't that the purpose of the national datacenter?