I've had a very interesting day reflecting and researching the kenyan dream ( which I wrote about earlier ) and what I discovered was that kenya is not alone in this. Actually, it is the whole of africa. What I learnt today is economics 101, which is food first then innovation. Basically, Africa has resources like tea, coffee, diamonds, gold, copper, uranuim, oil, gas and most of all almost a billion people market. And so, in very simple terms, what has happened is that in the global market place Africa basically invited investments by saying that we will export the natural resources while import almost everything else through partnerships and development will result in faster growth and better infrastructure. I think I've basically nailed the big picture now. BTW, if you do any Joomla or any other development, use Open Source edited versions, or even just full-fill a demand for a supply of anything for business as a source of lively hood and to better your living standards or generate profits, please have a ball and do what is necessary to make it. We don't have a welfare system to depend on during bad business times or even unemployment benefits and that most likely there are many others who depend on your income. It is not for us to waste time on things like genetics or R & D, they exist and thus the need not to re-invet the wheel nor produce localised versions. This is the reality of economics in our part of the world. I've enjoyed my coding journey to what innovations will be and also learnt a lot, brushed up on my knowledge of another field and will continue with what I believe is the future but with a very different approach. There is no place for fully developed solutions, in-terms of how global we can go, this I now see very clearly. I hope large successful local corporations will at least think long term and fill the void for R & D and creating better wheels that may some day take our economies from importers to exporters of something when the natural resources and borrowing can no longer sustain the economies. As for the e-Health system, not sure how it's going to work out in the future, and whether we even have the technical knowledge, expertise and even financial resources to implement. So in my view, that definately leaves it to external resources unless there is some major drive to do it locally through large enterprises partnering with govt. The problem with doing it locally is that we never planned for it, and could take years to develop even the simplest of systems. So we are back to square one, which is looking for vendors to fill the voids. @Crystal, I think now I can respond to what you mention about some schools not using computers which are lying in stores. There is much that needs to be first fullfilled before those computers can reach the desks of students. Food, Electricity and even basic infrastructure. And this is probably why NGOs are filling in the voids left by developing govts. Truly a fact finding day but corrections welcome. :-) Rgds.