If this is 2030, what would be the East African Information Age Icon of Engineering or Design that we will have created?
Though some of us may not exist or be too old to remember anything in 2030, we in the code world are lucky enough to change the destiny and outcome of what happens. If we started today and worked on a 2-5 year project that could become the biggest voluntary involvement of developers in the region and eventually the Icon of our engineering or design of the East Africa Information Age, what would it be? - Leave govt out of this. Things will never get done - Leave commercialism out of this as there are millions of people and developers out there ahead of us - Leave out an Operating System, there are plenty around - Leave out applications for poverty, community and social areas as these are highly contested by private firms, ngos, commerce etc Some thots, take your time and if you think it's a strong possible, then lets take it offlist at some point. Rgds. :-)
a game? On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:23 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
Though some of us may not exist or be too old to remember anything in 2030, we in the code world are lucky enough to change the destiny and outcome of what happens. If we started today and worked on a 2-5 year project that could become the biggest voluntary involvement of developers in the region and eventually the Icon of our engineering or design of the East Africa Information Age, what would it be?
- Leave govt out of this. Things will never get done - Leave commercialism out of this as there are millions of people and developers out there ahead of us - Leave out an Operating System, there are plenty around - Leave out applications for poverty, community and social areas as these are highly contested by private firms, ngos, commerce etc
Some thots, take your time and if you think it's a strong possible, then lets take it offlist at some point.
Rgds. :-)
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an animated series? On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
a game?
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:23 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
Though some of us may not exist or be too old to remember anything in 2030, we in the code world are lucky enough to change the destiny and outcome of what happens. If we started today and worked on a 2-5 year project that could become the biggest voluntary involvement of developers in the region and eventually the Icon of our engineering or design of the East Africa Information Age, what would it be?
- Leave govt out of this. Things will never get done - Leave commercialism out of this as there are millions of people and developers out there ahead of us - Leave out an Operating System, there are plenty around - Leave out applications for poverty, community and social areas as these are highly contested by private firms, ngos, commerce etc
Some thots, take your time and if you think it's a strong possible, then lets take it offlist at some point.
Rgds. :-)
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Thanks Collins, think of the Pyramids of Egypt or the Pathenon in Greece..... something that will be the Icon as such. On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
an animated series?
Hmmm...Though not in exact words...Am shifting towards artificial intelligence......Hardly anything done in East Africa apart from some light university projects On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:31 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Collins, think of the Pyramids of Egypt or the Pathenon in Greece..... something that will be the Icon as such.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
an animated series?
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@aki, Me thinks what David has done with vube.tv is something worth of appreciation, it may look easy but the man hours needed to get something like that are commendable. it is actually something that meets a need. On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Brian Rioba <rriobs@gmail.com> wrote:
Hmmm...Though not in exact words...Am shifting towards artificial intelligence......Hardly anything done in East Africa apart from some light university projects
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:31 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Collins, think of the Pyramids of Egypt or the Pathenon in Greece..... something that will be the Icon as such.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
an animated series?
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I just read this article. It is really the f#!ked up utter stupidity of the "innovation" mentality that some of us need to stay away from, IMHO! I have half the mind to openly engage this harvard professor. Somehow I have a feeling this professor could be a entreprenuer ( kazi ya kando.... ) My question is : Mr Professor, when will Kenya or even the greater EA region produce a device or algorithm that for exmaple NASA will recognise and use in its space research? http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/-/539546/1084918/-/item/0/-/8797bj/-/inde... " The *Business Daily’s* Steve Mbogo spoke to Calestous Juma, professor at the Harvard Kennedy School on various issues that will shape Africa’s development in the next decade and beyond. You have consistently spoken of the need for Africa to adopt modern technology to drive development. Is the continent heeding this call and what should be done to ensure massive technology usage on production? " ........"Money transfer is an example. Kenyans did not invent the mobile phone, but they were the first innovators in money transfer. So the real less from this examples is that innovation is more important that invention. " - Comment : Has the phillipines done the money transfer thing earlier? Who holds is the money transfer patent for KE? "*Are there advantages in being a technological latecomer?*Africa has the unique benefit of being a latecomer. It has at its disposal a very large pool of scientific and technological knowledge that it can deploy for economic development. Today, Africa has potential access more knowledge that any of its predecessors has when they embarked on the path of industrialisation." - Comment : The begining of a self-denialist who cannot explain the vital missing link over the thousands/millions of years of existence. Me thots.
I hope this thread will be a pin-up and open for all contributions on ideas of the subject. There is no hurry or rush, so dont feel pressured to respond. Take some few minutes off your busy schedules and/or business affairs, give it a thought. We can revisit the thread in a few weeks time..... And seriously, please try and filter out the Harvard Mr Professor's business mind. He is interested in creating more vendor markets rather than the other way around, imho. Rgds. :-)
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