There was a JKUAT guy who had sued vodafone sometime back after claiming he was paid peanut compared to what the solution was worth...I have also heard that Ushahidi was developed in Ihub or lets say the developers are Kenyans. My point is we dont need Konza city to advance our technology companies we need to boost the already available companies to achieve global dominance..for instance BPO has been growing at a snails pace we should be asking ourselves why is that...why cant we compete with india...will Konza city make us more competitive.I doubt that.

Konza is just that. A dream Gov't should be more concerned with providing enabling business environments and not making a few people a killing. what is wrong with gov't using all it's efforts to ensure there is fibre all over the country and in every home. that way, the ideal BPO would be set up. Work from anywhere, not just Konza. Taking trips to silicon is just silly in my opinion. Silicon Valley is moving out of Silicon Valley. it's busy roaming the world looking not for houses, there are some nice ones in silicon valley you know, but for skilled labour. I promise you, they won't come to Kenya if there are no skilled labour. And I don't mean the self taught geeks in Ihub. I mean where our colleges and universities are good enough to train skilled labour. From my experience, we can't compare to the Indians who we constantly disparage. The ICT board has had it wrong from the very beginning. It's the human labour these companies are looking for. Not the houses.Before someone boasts about how many IT guys are tarmacking in Kenya...Let's be serious. IT guys taught using a book by a lecturer who doesn't have email are not truthfully IT guys. So Konza without skilled, well trained labour is as dead as the ICT board awards to companies that died as soon as they won their money.

Having seen the success of such developments in places where skilled labour is available and places without either skilled labour or human resource numbers.... Konza will not died with or without labour.... think labour can be imported....I fully support the govt on this and I rest my case on arguments.

So its agreed we call it a real estate venture and that's all. Now we can invest with information in our hands. But believing that as soon as Konza is finished, Kenyans will turn into IT gurus that the world shudders on seeing is rather foolhardy. Drinking cool-aid is not a cool thing. Let's have the ICT board and the gov't doing what they are supposed to do. Build an enabling environment so that we don't have our graduates hanging around the estate with no funding for their ideas. Building tall buildings is not the solution.

@ Mkely, they just dont get it...., they narrowed the scope.