On land, how much in taxes is it raising while remaining idle. With buildings there even tho as u think they will not host IT orgs...they will raise some cash is taxes

You are very gracious my friend. I'm not.

This information age will not come back. Once we sell all our Mpesa's to these so called "loving" multinationals, you can forget about these vision 2030's


It is upto them as PAID beuracrats to protect the interests of this country. Not to push the agendas of the world bank or whoever is financing them.

If you are in ICT there is nothing more painful than seeing your idea being used somewhere else. We know these companies prey on the uninformed, yet we bring them here to party!

Who came up with the idea to give Google the lock and Keys to Gov't data? Then foolishly went ahead and called it Kenyan Open Data. There is nothing open about Google. Their goal is to control all information in the world and someone in gov't just gave them the keys.

Yes I blame them.

You forget one thing, knowledge and skill never gets depleted what we are calling the "in thing" today will be a dinosaur tomorrow and to stay relevant you have to network and have your antennas high to know what will be "in" tomorrow, therefore no serious developer can rush to "buy paris" on striking it big the first time.

Check out Noris Kaboo http://noristechnologies.com/the-kaboo-tablet/, don't u think these guys need maximum support?

And by the way, as long as ur using the www then your info is out there, it doesnt matter if its on google or yahoo or what

On land, how much in taxes is it raising while remaining idle. With buildings there even tho as u think they will not host IT orgs...they will raise some cash is taxes[/quote]

@murchr..
please expound on your question above.
Its basically taxing vacant land as if there is full development on it.

Owners of vacant land will feel the pain of paying tax as if the land is developed so they will either develop or sell to a developer.

This will open up and increase ammount of rentable space in Nairobi.[/quote]

Is that what the law proposes?

By the way, I wish to apologise for stating the wrong company in open data, its not Google its Socrata.

Mind you I want Konza to work. You only need to know me to know how I hate Nairobi. But if its IT we are talking about, then we are barking up the wrong tree.

I promise you this, if in the next 8 months of their term they could stop going to Stanford university and instead take a trip to Paypal, they would have changed this country forever.

In this trip they should not take Larry Madowo. They should go with the owners of IPay and those Akira chix and pretend they are students.

We are living in dangerous times when we can't see that the global war is being fought over data.

The chinese want to chase Google and Facebook, we wish to build them mansions here. The russians are quickly becoming the best programmers and hackers, we are holding another Nokia conference.

This war is on. And data is what they are after. We are about to give them all of it hook line and sinker as they praise us for having an "technology city".

Sorry, I ain't buying it.

Let us educate our masses Now! Our only advantage is in our minds. We give them that and all of us will be working in Konza as sweepers and bodyguards and calling ourselves developed.

Adios.