There is the problem of most small and mid sized businesses always trying to rip off ignorant customers. As such, start ups like chekelea tend to have a hard time convincing skeptical customers. also, we tend to capitalise on how far people have schooled rather than what they know. We d rather employ a professor as our consultant than Aki. The professor comes from an institution that takes 200 ict students through 35 hours of programming in C with one tutor and grades them. that is why they call us developing countries On 31/08/2009, Philip Musyoki <pmusyoki@gmail.com> wrote:
Aki
You feel so strongly about these things.
But the real problem with third world countries and failed states is lack of visionary leadership. You can have all the good plans, fast internet and access to finance but with poor leadership it will amount to nothing.
The largest economic leap in the United States is largely attributed to the rail system and later to the Interstate Highway System, a brainchild of President Eisenhower., Do you think we will ever have someone great to come up with a project as large as the Interstate is? We plan to build 30 km of 6 lane highways and hail those as achievements? They are not.
Even the fiber cables are very small projects. What is first internet without the services (providers and consumers) alike? These are means to an end, they are not ends themselves.
We are truly doomed.
-- with Regards: Kazi kwa vijana and other idiots, all at my blog: http://gramware.blogspot.com