Those who see Konza as a white elephant just demonstrate their lack of exposure to the outside world. I currently work in a tech city that was built from scratch just to lure investments to this place esp because the traditional industries were getting outpaced by the developing world (Farming and oil).

Its amazing how just proper planning can spur growth and investments. I hope no one takes it offensively but the company that i work with now runs 24hrs India, Australia, Central America, and the west coast US, duties and functions rotate. There are plans to launch in Africa but by studying how and where they do it they follow the konza model. SA is the fav dest now, Egypt messed up with the revolution, KE and Nigeria are the other options. Time will tell.

Machakos City...where we will soon be watching 'ferallis'

In my opinion, having the guy who said that parafin competes with kplc is just ......

As for Ndemo, make no mistake about it. He is very important in the history of ICT in this country. But I think his time was up. The problem with ICT is that speed is essential and mandatory. Take too long to build a house and tomorrow we have windows 8 making your current computer screens look like relics from the middle ages.

I believe that though well meaning, his ministry and the ICT board was making strategic mistakes that have surely slowed down the speed they started with.

Konza is a huge mistake in terms of priorities and should be put in the back burner until we get the human resources in order. Until we deal with human resources and reliable communication, you can as well say, f*** ict in kenya.

Ask all those graduates coming from good colleges like Daystar who will confess to you that they have no idea how to use Facebook, twitter, google etc to brand their companies. As for the programmers, they are all as Nabwire would say "worshiping Safaricom". M-kazi, m-kuku and m-f*** it.

Good thing is that now we can have fresh faces up there rather than the usual 3Mice cocoon. Though I think that Konza development something will surely have some space for this cocoon.

That joe njoroge guy doesn't inspire confidence in me. I'm recoiling in horrow to think he is the principal secretary for energy&petroleum.

It could make sense from a business point of view. A one MJ used to say airtime competed with milk and bread.