Fine, the city will not start with 200K people but will gradually grow to that number, in otherwords you will have empty buildings waiting to be occupied over a period of time, right?

I have said this before, that the rate with which we are building infrastructure does not at all compare with the rate we are producing talent. I stand to be corrected; most of those people creating apps are self educated in application development, if not they are coming from abroad.

How I wish we were saying that by 2030 we will have a single world standard university, notice the challenge is to have just one globally competitive university by 2030. Did you see that the govt is planning to close down KARI (Kenya Agricultural Research Institute)? This in a country whose economy is more than half supported by Agriculture, my friend we needs to get real and serious.

-->What skills do you think are lacking in ICT sector because it comprises of so many areas?I think all manner of skills are lacking. Remember I'm looking at the national level, not 200 - 300 people sitting in a building developing apps.

On the other hand, can you please enlighten me and name for me the skills Kenya has in ICT in the various areas?

The last time MPESA was down, we were told its datacenter is in Germany and its the one that went off....are these not jobs that have been exported? Again, if i create an app that will be implemented on a large scale, will i not need engineers to make it better? Will i not need trainers? Will i not need support guys for maintenance, will i not need a platform where the app will run on? How many jobs are these?

ICT is not just about apps....Use google well and find out more

@murchr I agree ICT is not just about apps. But alot of decisions affecting ICT are not necessarily ICt related.
Political, self interested decisions like Konza affect ict directly.

Can any Wazuan who understands the motivation behind Konza convince me why a company like Samsung or HP would set up shop in Konza and not in the several other global alternatives they have.
ICT grows locally then the multinationals and the big boys follow, and that is the case for all innovative things, disruptive economics are marshaled by startups and the big players catch up through m&a. Look at ICT in India for example, did Microsoft and SAP preceed the Indian programmer or was the programmer the reason MSFT and SAP set up shop there ?
The same applies to Silicon Valley, it's the environment that makes it possible to find the human capital required and thats why investments flow there.

The govt needs to focus on developing human capital within the ICT discipline and leave the rest to the private sector. Paternalistic government activity is a hotbed for corruption and socialist idealism that never materializes. We don't need that! let the govt facilitate, we will innovate.

Konza city in my view should be owned by Kenyans, that is in terms of the vision and mission,other people should just come in later. Most Kenyans should be in position to explain what Konza is all about. The world has discovered Africa and companies are coming here in droves...why are they coming? Its a rhetoric question. Maybe we need to wake up and support each other to success. Check out a marketers perspective on Konza..http://amwesthemarketer.blogspot.com/2012/03/konza-city-marketers-proposal.html

There is a difference between selling products and creating products.

Most of those companies are here to sell their solutions but none of their products are designed and produced in Kenya.

You have heard even from MJ himself that MPesa (what is usually mentioned as the epitome of Kenyan innovation) was not invented in Kenya, but it has been sold/licensed to Safaricom.