poundfoolish, I agree with you entirely! And that's the point. .... 1. Slow internet speeds. (pls don't even think 3G is anywhere to fast and reliable with what we do) 2. KPLC 3. Lack of trained employees .... Slow down on the international conferences they are always going to and sponsor 5 students a year to IT colleges out there coz our current breed of lecturers can't teach IT to their own children That 600 million spent on land would have gone further if offered to schools so that our kids don't have to go to a college after form 4 to learn excel and word. those with businesses here will attest to the fact that even university graduates have no idea how to work with a word document. Tell them to use excell and you have to call a press conference. ... But an educated populace will be able to deal with the challenges. Right now, all anyone can tell me is that the ICT board supports Ihub. Some no more than 500 Kenyans. How are 500 Kenyans going to stay ahead when where I was living in Cambridge, every shopkeeper was IT savvy? My neighbour's kids were being hired by gaming companies to come up with computer programs. ....

http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate+News/Fresh+zoning+at+Konza+park+dims+land+deals+/-/539550/1330944/-/42shog/-/index.html Investors who had hoped to cash in on the proximity to Kenya’s first ICT Park in Konza to make capital gains will be disappointed as the government moved to bar human settlement within two kilometres of the park. What will happen to those who had already acquired land within the 10km radius?

It was important that the government had a large piece of land dedicated to creation of a sensible well planned technology city. Speculation on land prices (and extraordinarily small landholdings)is the bane of many third world countries that are trying to attract FDI.