I feel you but i still think this should be known. Seek legal advice even if they cannot be sued.

Our Gov is so poor at implementing even the least and esp the ministry of lands, hopefully things will change for the better raise this issue at KICTANET and maybe someone will have a solution. I don't want to believe that its the end of it

What u take IT to be is completely diff with what i do. Even in the noble profession of journalism there are freelancers but that has not stopped the likes of Nation and Standard from setting up.

The issue of starting up an IT company, its not different, all businesses in Kenya suffer the same predicament and go through the same

My fear is very simple. The information age is the only time when man can be equalized. Apple beat IBM, Amazon beat Borders, Netflix beat blockbuster etc.

It is the story of the small guy beating the big guy.

That story can be replicated here in Kenya. Where the small KU graduate can create a monolith big enough to beat Kenyan corporates in his bedroom.

That is the beauty of the internet.

Now what we have here is a case where the ICT board seems to wish to have the corporate still rule the world. They even boast about it when they name drop names such as Nokia, Google, Mpesa etc every time they talk.

I want them to name drop Oduori Achola who created something in his bedroom in Kayole.

That can be achieved if they did what those in Silicon Valley do. Support the small start up with the stupid idea.

If they continue in this path of only dealing with corporates, then they are simply recolonizing Africa again. This time our minds.

If you really want to think BIG think this way. Where any Kenyan can boast of having had a hand in creating something that changed the world.

As we stand, the ICT board is only interested in corporate events, corporate trips abroad and corporate cities.

Nothing to do with the mama mboga ict guy who's paying them their salaries through taxes.

It is the wrong way to go and we shall suffer for it in the future.

The only reason why someone could start a business in a garage and name it microsoft was not because the garage was 10 stories, had fire hydrants and had a manicured lawn.

It was because when they needed to grow the idea, they found that the Gov't had in place all the facilities they needed to do so.

My view is that the ICT board has nothing to show for their term other than Kenyanbuzz.com (not kenyan) and conferences in Italy and trips to Stanford.

So they have seen that they need to create this monolith called Konza to show they were "thinking Big".

Yet when you ask a simple question, "what has the ict board done for me lately?" no one has an answer.

Think Big Man!

He can buy Paris!

If you have any reference that you were in contact with them and discussed that idea say mails etc. then talk to a lawyer that was a great idea stolen.

I think its similar idea like that you had that will push this country ahead.
Lets stop thinking that we have to start at the level of microsoft, google, apple etc. because we seem obsessed that we can only start at their level these companies took advantage of the problems that existed then and build great companies providing solutions to those problems. We can build similar companies here if we start focusing on providing solutions for our problems a few people have started doing so yet over and over they are being dismissed as just a bunch of 200 -300 sitting somewhere just doing small time apps.

The ICT sector cannot grow without collaboration with people with expertise in different areas like you bwana a4architect.com.