alafu hio coding ikue flooded
Actually this is the key pillar of all progressive societies; the abilities of citizens to bow down before the law and existence of sanctions against nonconformists. To localise it, consider a Kenya where criminals are punished regardless of their status and conflict of interest is frowned at and sanctioned. Hutasikia story za kimwarer na arror including kazi kwa vijana.
Kuna skills mingi sana digital kasee. Coding is just one example. Ikuwe flooded aje na programmers are needed all over the world. Hufanyii wakenya kazi. Hata gava ikiamua kufocus na programming, those skills are for export. Uko Kenya lakini client ako Silicon Valley. Clean biz. Online gigs sio kama kuuza mayai ati zitaflood from Uganda, ama kufanya course ya kawaida kama mass communication while there are only a few media houses to work in. You break down all international barriers unlike kuuza commodities.
There is a lot of bureaucracy and red tape to deal with in all other hustles that aren’t services. With the internet, services are border-less. How long will it take for Kenya to break trade barriers with lucrative markets like China, EU and USA?? Forever. Even when it does, all deals will be lope-sided to milk Kenya dry. I agree that industries such as agriculture are important, but I don’t think they would provide the fastest solution.
If all form 1 students wangeambiwa one of the following is compulsory (quickbooks/sage, java, AUTOCAD, SPSS, video editing/animation - a bunch of well researched skills with huge global market) and testable in KCSE, wanaisoma for 4 years. By 2025 we would have the first cohort of people who can find decent work online. Then wakiingia Uni ikuwe compulsory kuendeleza that skill as a minor alongside your major. By 2025 onwards unaweza ona impact kubwa sana ya the quantity of dollars that would flow into the country. At that time, unaweza ona major companies in the tech industry setting shop huku as their regional hub juu kuna skills.
Investing in sectors like agriculture is good. But agriculture and other industries involving commodities or goods are capital-intensive (plantations aren’t cheap), depend on global market prices, are susceptible to politics and international relations, and involve signing many unfair agreements with EU, China and USA. I believe teaching kids skills they can sell online is the road of least resistance.
Disregard the justice process in high profile corruption cases and repossess what belongs to the nation.
( Plus A few assasinations won’t hurt…either you are with me or against me )
Deal with foreign investors harshly … they have had us by the balls because of greed and power of our leaders.
Hire competent advisors not affiliated to the mafia.
( the mafia too will swim with cement shoes by the way )
Renovate Nyayo house with the latest interrogation tech.This will come in handy for anyone playing with tax payers money.
Hand back power to the people and Retire early .
Very good topic.
The advantage of being a developing nation ni kwamba hatuhitaji kufikiria sana, just pick a blueprint for success halafu implement, dust off economic plans - ziko nyingi kwa shelf zinaokota vumbi, tuchukue na kuimplement. Kwa maoni yangu, in no particular order;
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[li]Rule of Law - Lazima kila mmoja wetu aache kuchagua kiongozi na ukabila, make a personal decision ndio Sheria idumu kwa wote, hakuna wakubwa na wadogo, from the top, tuombe mungu sana tupate mtu mwenye anapenda Kenya kuliko tumbo yake[/li][li]Continue digitalization of government - kila kitu iwe online na inalipwa na mpesa, hakuna cashiers na hakuna broker, patia vijana app developers kutengengeneza hizi solutions[/li][li]Reduce the number of elected positions - tuko na waheshimiwa wengi sana[/li][li]Masomo - Focus on STEM, all top government guys should be from STEM, it is a pity that none of us has come up with even a modern day invention, hata programming language kama C++, Java, Javascript, python, zote ni walami. Make less slots for arts and ghasia kama law in campus, and make it harder for someone to get into such courses, [/li][li]Give companies tax breaks when they fund and support apprenticeships and polytechnics, mtu anafika form four, anaanza kazi halafu baadaye akipata experience na chapaa anaeza enda kufanya masters direct [/li][li]Agriculture - focus on land consolidation and value addition, hakuna mbloti maguta, tax small farmers until they consolidate or quit farming[/li][li]Finance - Anzisha state banks for each sector, technology bank, industrial credit bank, revive AFC ya wakulima, HELB ya masomo etc…[/li][li]Youth - Focus on Youth starting with compulsory national service, watu wajenge barabara, walime mashamba za serikali, wapeane security north eastern, kila mtu akuwe soldier by miaka 21, [/li][li]Transport - rudisha national transport manned by the youth service,[/li][li]Industry - Re-Nationalize key industries, Textile, Sugar, Milling, Vehicle Assembly, Laptop Assembly, [/li][li]Army - Use the Engineering Corps kufanya kazi ya building barabara na bridges [/li][/ol]
The only difference between us and 1st world countries is the mindset. Pound for pound, up to university level, our education is pretty up there. Its enough. Post undergrad is where the wear starts to show.
The biggest problem is practical application skills. We need to learn to follow order and create systems. Yeah teach me biology but make it a law that Antibiotics in Kenya cannot be imported. They have to be manufactured locally, just like sodas or juice. Vet products too. Teach me chemistry but mandate 50% of water to homes in landlocked cities (Nbi, Limuru, etc…) to be recycled -with locally made components. Here you encourage recycling but give local entrepreneurs to create systems. We import fertilizer? Why? Somebody cant mix 5-6 ingredients? How about saying all government biometric capture systems must use locally written software by a certain year. Slowly by slowly work that way,etc etc. You can think of 1000 other things. As log as were are a sum total consumer, we will never advance. Producers are the rulers of this world.
It would be a good start to for example make it compulsory to teach computer packages. But it would be extremely difficult to implement. For a start, how many of our schools have computers for every student. How is our free computer for every child project working? How much would it cost to have lets say 5 kids share a comp in every school. So this will automatically limit the depth of the teaching. And remember that a government cannot use pirated copies of software. So they would have to purchase licenses annually for every child. Affordable in Kenya?Most people would have trouble purchasing license. How do you expect a government to purchase for 5 of your kids? And does this really even give you an edge in the world? It is worth a try though.From a personal perspective, the more you learn the better. But a state perspective is different.
Cartels, cartels, cartels. If you don’t deal with that, any manifesto will just become another stupid vision 2030.
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