@Gisho, please know that 99% of the blame lies with developing countries govts, not with kenyans or citizens in other african countries. Where the basis of an economy is to collect taxes on 99% of imports ( leading to encouraging importation policies which sometimes results in innovative theft and fraud ) as a country developer, you can guess how badly long term effects will be. What drives corruption? Because the system of entreprenuerships and shortcuts. I'll leave this part for the economists on this list as am not expert.
Good luck with your innovation and hope it serves you well. :-)
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:12 PM, gisho
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@Aki, well, you can point fingers to the govt but somehow in a country like .ke we are all to blame (unless you convince me that elections in the country are just plain illusions in my head). people get what they want period. and thats why i gave up on politics. Honestly, am no longer moved by anyone saying that they are dying of hunger (for how long are they waiting to solve their problems, 1,000 yrs? 1,000,000 yrs?) i hope i could help someone die faster just to solve their temporary problem permanently. such is my stand but all is not lost. there are some honorable guys in the ICT sector really giving their best in comparison to the majority who are just making or protecting their wealth. Maybe its only me who has this view but most Kenyans don't care [i was about to but very bad words here], if you look around you'll see.
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maybe i can start another topic about UFO. I can't stop thinking of how those little guys have advanced in energy production/use.
their ability to defy gravity, find us (earth) and go back (even sometimes unnoticed) taking into consideration from around 1960s we have been searching for other life in the universe (and found NONE so far). i feel like am missing a lot of info on that though. BTW, is it that there are no UFO sightings in Africa or we do not look up in the sky or could it be when anyone see something we attribute it to the developed. i think the latter is true since when i was a kid i always thought chemtrails [
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory] were some sought of govt weather related stuff until today. i used to see them alot between 1990 - 1998. am i the the only one? (now this is getting weird)
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