Posts Tagged ‘kenya ICT’
The Size of the Elephant
29 Apr 2012The size of this Elephant. The recent #140friday twitter and off twitter debate was centred around a simple and important theme. If the Kenya Government procurement ecosystem developed a preferential orientation towards local firms, the result would be that we would develop greater capability. It was argued by some that the government seemed to indicate [...]
I attended the Kenya ICT Board supported Mobile Boot Camp winners presentation event last week Monday 25th March at Strathmore University. The turnout by students, just there to witness the event, was impressive by all accounts. The Board was giving away Kshs 20,000 to the winner and Kshs 10,000 to the runners up. In November [...]
Twitter being used for medical procedures
23 Mar 2009I came across this article and I thought I should share it Using Twitter to Teach Surgeons ‘Tweet’ From Operating Room During Brain Surgery By BARBARA PINTO March 22, 2009— As doctors Steven Kalkanis and Kost Elisevich performed brain surgery at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, a watchful medical team looked on. So did [...]
I have just had a quick chat with Dr Sevilla (Strathmore) about the impact of developing skills in software development. I am amazed at some of the things I am hearing about from the presenters here at the Boot Camp. The developer community is charged and motivated and have excellent ideas. I think they need [...]
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Having lunch at home then making my way to mobile boot camp at Strathmore School. These events are important for the country because they excite the developer community about the whole idea of software and solutions in Kenya. They interact among one another, share ideas and develop thought leadership. My blog has not been updated [...]
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- Joseph Musambai: Wonderful ideas especially to us entrepreneurs struggling to get started, to me Paul the problem is [...]
- FRANK: Great insight and candour . Firstly , as you rightly say ,public procurement everywhere in the wor [...]
- Aron Kamakil: "The elephant is big and fat and has to be eaten a piece at a time..." That is all we needed to h [...]
- Peter Kariuki: Excellent read Paul !, you have touched on the real issues of capability and opportunities in capaci [...]
- Diacen Kibet Ndiaga: Hi Paul, U r the true son of Kenya.Kudos for what you are doing for this country.Keep up the zeal. [...]
- Innovation, entrepreneurship, culture, and exposure my observations from interaction with the university student developer community
- Visit to the World Trade Organization
- The Size of the Elephant
- Quick discussion with a leading Kenyan IT director
- Since I last blogged.. Great to be back
- Initial thoughts, letter to Kictanet
- Our challenges are the best ‘capital’ we can have… a prelude to the 2nd Connected Gov workshop
- Lessons, snippets, from the visit by the Singaporeans
- Software Standards Certification for Kenya
- Update on ICT Board projects