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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/20/2007 Posts: 4,432
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@alma has lived there so he can clarify for us whether silicon valley has a fence like Konza has or whether US Govt resells land there.I can clarify that there is no fence. Just some thousands of very sharp young kids doing some IT stuff that I don't understand. on the issue of gov't buying land from A to sell to B is an issue that the supreme court only got around to in the Bush years. Some states are fighting that law tooth and nail. The issue was that small community businesses were being replaced by big businesses. Eg Walmart would come to Kiambu and within a year all the small businesses would be killed. In the end everyone in Kiambu would work at walmart. The supreme court upheld the Bush law of eminent domain and now people are crying foul after seeing how gov't can use it. Quote:The Supreme Court's decision in Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005) affirmed the authority of New London, Connecticut, to take non-blighted private property by eminent domain, and then transfer it for a dollar a year to a private developer solely for the purpose of increasing municipal revenues. This 5-4 decision received heavy press coverage and inspired a public outcry that eminent domain powers were too broad. In reaction to Kelo, several states enacted or are considering state legislation that would further define and restrict the power of eminent domain. The Supreme Courts of Illinois, Michigan (County of Wayne v. Hathcock (2004)), Ohio (Norwood, Ohio v. Horney (2006)), Oklahoma, and South Carolina have recently ruled to disallow such takings under their state constitutions. from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain
http://www.expertlaw.com...ate/eminent_domain.html
http://caselaw.lp.findla...ion/amendment05/14.html
I beg of you, however sweet Konza sounds, don't let gov't be able to buy your land and resell it to someone else. Especially in a country like Kenya where we know that people even grab forests. Jose: If I make it through this thug life, I'll see you one day. The Lord is the only way to stop the hurt.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 1/4/2010 Posts: 1,668 Location: nairobi
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murchr wrote:Quote:Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, 27, bought a house this year in Palo Alto, said Larry Yu, a company spokesman. He declined to disclose details. Zuckerberg paid $7 million [KES 560 MILLION]for a 5,000-square-foot (465-square-meter), seven-bedroom home in a “leafy and affluent” neighborhood, Konza will need to create the talent by nurturing universities for several years, at least 10, for it to offer exposure that can recoup high Real estate costs. If you follow Zuckerbergs story, after seeing the potential of facebook....where did he go? And for why did he do that. Leave the residences alone if one feels like they should live in a 5000 square foot hse, they can always do it elsewhere even if it means boarding a chopper to get there. [/quote] @ murchr, Mark Zuckerberg bought a house in Palo Alto, a city that is 15,200acres in size. San Jose, also in Silicon Valley, has a population of 7.5 million people.The land size is 115,000 acres. In a nut shell, Silicon Valley is not 5,000 acres. Its hundreds of thousands of acres. @alma can estimate for us the size in terms of a region in Nairobi. In my estimation, this should be like the area from JKIA all the way to Konza. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose,_California
Quote:Geography
Downtown San Jose, looking over the Tech Museum and Plaza de César Chávez park.
Looking west over northern San Jose (downtown is at far left) and other parts of Silicon Valley. See an up-to-the-minute view of San Jose from the Mount Hamilton web camera
San Jose is located at 37°20′07″N 121°53′31″W.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 180.0 square miles (466 km2), of which 3.4 square miles (8.9 km²; 1.91%) is water. As Iron Sharpens Iron, So one Man Sharpens Another.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 3/25/2010 Posts: 939 Location: Nai
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eboomerang wrote:jamplu wrote:
@alma there is saying where i come from that you don't climb a tree from the top you start from the bottom. ihub and the rest of the incubation centers is our starting point. what if each of the 300 leaving ihub each started a start-up and assume 150 of them failed we have 150 start-ups what if each employed 10 that == a growing ICT sector and your Konza city will be filled up in 10 years
Lets look at your facebook example how many people started it or even Apple and the rest with large campuses these started in dorm rooms and garages.
Most of the IT companies are no longer waiting for graduates with 100% capacity they have stepped up by training new entrant so stop thinking nothing is happening in terms of building capacity.
@jamplu, based on your comments, I have confidence to tell you the following... You do not know or understand what you are talking about, period! I hope the people behind this Konza City are not of the same mindset. @eboomerang probably its you who has no clue what you talking about! if you think you know better why don't you say what you think you know stop behaving like the whole world ends in your mind!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/20/2007 Posts: 4,432
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@alma can estimate for us the size in terms of a region in Nairobi. I doubt if these guys know what Silicon Valley is and how big it is. I'm 100% sure that they are going for Palo Alto not Silicon Valley Model. So I will help them out. The idea they have is not based on Silicon Valley, it is based on Palo Alto. The incubator city. that's the one that is 16,000 acres. Not 5k acres. So let's not hoodwink Kenyans. On these 16000 acres with the biggest ICT firms in the world, here's the breakdown in terms of employment. and is home to more than 7,000 businesses employing more than 98,000 people I was one of them. So again this 200k people being employed at Konza still beats me. Considering that Palo Alto is the home of some of the following companies. Amazon.com's A9.com AOL Inc. Aricent Better Place CPI International Hewlett-Packard IDEO Mashable Mopay Nanosys[26] Ning PAIX Palantir Technologies please I say again. When you think BIG, be realistic and know your short comings then fix those shortcomings. Jose: If I make it through this thug life, I'll see you one day. The Lord is the only way to stop the hurt.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/26/2012 Posts: 15,980
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alma wrote:@alma has lived there so he can clarify for us whether silicon valley has a fence like Konza has or whether US Govt resells land there.I can clarify that there is no fence. Just some thousands of very sharp young kids doing some IT stuff that I don't understand. on the issue of gov't buying land from A to sell to B is an issue that the supreme court only got around to in the Bush years. Some states are fighting that law tooth and nail. The issue was that small community businesses were being replaced by big businesses. Eg Walmart would come to Kiambu and within a year all the small businesses would be killed. In the end everyone in Kiambu would work at walmart. The supreme court upheld the Bush law of eminent domain and now people are crying foul after seeing how gov't can use it. Quote:The Supreme Court's decision in Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005) affirmed the authority of New London, Connecticut, to take non-blighted private property by eminent domain, and then transfer it for a dollar a year to a private developer solely for the purpose of increasing municipal revenues. This 5-4 decision received heavy press coverage and inspired a public outcry that eminent domain powers were too broad. In reaction to Kelo, several states enacted or are considering state legislation that would further define and restrict the power of eminent domain. The Supreme Courts of Illinois, Michigan (County of Wayne v. Hathcock (2004)), Ohio (Norwood, Ohio v. Horney (2006)), Oklahoma, and South Carolina have recently ruled to disallow such takings under their state constitutions. from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain
http://www.expertlaw.com...ate/eminent_domain.html
http://caselaw.lp.findla...ion/amendment05/14.html
I beg of you, however sweet Konza sounds, don't let gov't be able to buy your land and resell it to someone else. Especially in a country like Kenya where we know that people even grab forests. Let me fill u in on the history of silicon valley...Since the early twentieth century, Silicon Valley has been home to an electronics industry. The industry began through experimentation and innovation in the fields of radio, television, and military electronics. America is planned in such a way that each state has some specialization eg Detroit Michigan is where their auto industry is located while Newyork is the financial city. What can we call Nrb? PS. Refer to your map and confirm palo Alto, you will find out that its just a place in silicon valley. "There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/20/2007 Posts: 4,432
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murchr wrote:
Let me fill u in on the history of silicon valley...Since the early twentieth century, Silicon Valley has been home to an electronics industry. The industry began through experimentation and innovation in the fields of radio, television, and military electronics. America is planned in such a way that each state has some specialization eg Detroit Michigan is where their auto industry is located while Newyork is the financial city. What can we call Nrb?
That's very fresh considering that Silicon Valley is not a state. And there was nothing like ICT in the whole world before the 80's. So surely in 1884 when it started under Stanford, they couldn't have planned for an ICT city could they? Understanding history is also as important as reading it. Jose: If I make it through this thug life, I'll see you one day. The Lord is the only way to stop the hurt.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 1/4/2010 Posts: 1,668 Location: nairobi
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The epicentre of Silicon Valley, Stanford Uni, has 1800 acres according to Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford,_California
Geography Stanford is located at 37°25′21″N 122°9′55″W (37.422590, -122.165413)[2]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.8 square miles (7.3 km2), of which, 2.7 square miles (7.0 km2) of it is land and 0.045 square miles (0.12 km2) of it (1.64%) is water. Its my belief that this epicentre for the last 100 years,nurtured talent that resulted into the surrounding hundreds of thousands of acres to develop into the current Silicon Valley. In the Konza situation for example, if Ministry of Info supported a public uni which would have bought land -say 1000 acres using its own funds=200,000x1000ac=200mil. The KES 1B from treasury then could have been used to lay ICT infrastructure and fund ICT entrepreneurship. This could have eventually led to the Silicon Valley effect. As Iron Sharpens Iron, So one Man Sharpens Another.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/26/2012 Posts: 15,980
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a4architect.com wrote:The epicentre of Silicon Valley, Stanford Uni, has 1800 acres according to Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford,_California
Geography Stanford is located at 37°25′21″N 122°9′55″W (37.422590, -122.165413)[2]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.8 square miles (7.3 km2), of which, 2.7 square miles (7.0 km2) of it is land and 0.045 square miles (0.12 km2) of it (1.64%) is water. Its my belief that this epicentre for the last 100 years,nurtured talent that resulted into the surrounding hundreds of thousands of acres to develop into the current Silicon Valley. In the Konza situation for example, if Ministry of Info supported a public uni which would have bought land -say 1000 acres using its own funds=200,000x1000ac=200mil. The KES 1B from treasury then could have been used to lay ICT infrastructure and fund ICT entrepreneurship. This could have eventually led to the Silicon Valley effect. They say, the best time to have planted a tree was 20 years ago and the next best time is now. So far we know 18 unis local and international want to set base in Konza is it vital that something should be done? "There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 1/4/2010 Posts: 1,668 Location: nairobi
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murchr wrote:alma wrote:@alma has lived there so he can clarify for us whether silicon valley has a fence like Konza has or whether US Govt resells land there.I can clarify that there is no fence. Just some thousands of very sharp young kids doing some IT stuff that I don't understand. on the issue of gov't buying land from A to sell to B is an issue that the supreme court only got around to in the Bush years. Some states are fighting that law tooth and nail. The issue was that small community businesses were being replaced by big businesses. Eg Walmart would come to Kiambu and within a year all the small businesses would be killed. In the end everyone in Kiambu would work at walmart. The supreme court upheld the Bush law of eminent domain and now people are crying foul after seeing how gov't can use it. Quote:The Supreme Court's decision in Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005) affirmed the authority of New London, Connecticut, to take non-blighted private property by eminent domain, and then transfer it for a dollar a year to a private developer solely for the purpose of increasing municipal revenues. This 5-4 decision received heavy press coverage and inspired a public outcry that eminent domain powers were too broad. In reaction to Kelo, several states enacted or are considering state legislation that would further define and restrict the power of eminent domain. The Supreme Courts of Illinois, Michigan (County of Wayne v. Hathcock (2004)), Ohio (Norwood, Ohio v. Horney (2006)), Oklahoma, and South Carolina have recently ruled to disallow such takings under their state constitutions. from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain
http://www.expertlaw.com...ate/eminent_domain.html
http://caselaw.lp.findla...ion/amendment05/14.html
I beg of you, however sweet Konza sounds, don't let gov't be able to buy your land and resell it to someone else. Especially in a country like Kenya where we know that people even grab forests. Let me fill u in on the history of silicon valley...Since the early twentieth century, Silicon Valley has been home to an electronics industry. The industry began through experimentation and innovation in the fields of radio, television, and military electronics. America is planned in such a way that each state has some specialization eg Detroit Michigan is where their auto industry is located while Newyork is the financial city. What can we call Nrb? PS. Refer to your map and confirm palo Alto, you will find out that its just a place in silicon valley. Nairobi was planned with Upper Hill as Govt Ministry HQs, CBD as finance region, Westlands as high cost[wazungu] residence, Parklands as middle cost[Indian] residence and Eastlands,Muthurwa ,Gikomba as low cost[blacks] residence. Industrial area still remains as industrial base. As Iron Sharpens Iron, So one Man Sharpens Another.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/26/2012 Posts: 15,980
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alma wrote:murchr wrote:
Let me fill u in on the history of silicon valley...Since the early twentieth century, Silicon Valley has been home to an electronics industry. The industry began through experimentation and innovation in the fields of radio, television, and military electronics. America is planned in such a way that each state has some specialization eg Detroit Michigan is where their auto industry is located while Newyork is the financial city. What can we call Nrb?
That's very fresh considering that Silicon Valley is not a state. And there was nothing like ICT in the whole world before the 80's. So surely in 1884 when it started under Stanford, they couldn't have planned for an ICT city could they? Understanding history is also as important as reading it. Silicon valley is in Carlifornia ICT is partly electronics infact its 85% if not 90% electronics even that shopkeepers calculator u might have used today is a computer my friend. Apps are a very small part of IT "There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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