Comments on: Malili: Kenya’s Planned High Tech Metropolis

By: juma ogai

juma ogai — Tue, 11 May 2010 09:29:25 +0000

The Malili concept is interesting. Given the way our towns are run down I’m certainly one person who hopes to go and live there. Unless the private sector can take up the challenge and provide us with modern towns to live in. Today Nairobi is a dump with pockets of modernity. Malili should be the other way round. It will appeal to more than just people in the ICT industry as it opens another concept of urban living. It has the concept of a gated community but on the scale of a town. Certainly a welcome idea!

By: Felix Datche

Felix Datche — Mon, 10 May 2010 17:37:04 +0000

As an architect i find this Tech city very interesting on many fronts and it is my sincere hope that somehow it is gonna take off and also that it is not gonna be the last themed city in this country. There is great need to decentralise from Nairobi and such an idea gives a better answer than telling people to go back to their villages because Nairobi is full et al. I hope other themed cities will be developed across the country with considerations given to the dominant potential of the given regions.
SUCCESS!!!

By: Edward

Edward — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:28:40 +0000

The goverment talks, builds a ficticial project in the paper starts handing out ‘contracts’ with huge kick backs to them on this proejct and in a year every one will forget about it while they sit on a pile of money. When is the last time any big goverment program ever took place. Kenya can not keep the power on (useful in high tech thing) it made education free but that just drove class sizes to huge numbers, and when is the last time you saw a computer class in a ‘free’ school. Ones in the rural areas don’t have chalk. So you will be providing the cleaners and askari’s for this park while the companies have to send skilled people from around the world. Where is the fiber optic cable connections that where to be here 5 years ago. And finally most of your goverment agencies are not computerized Police write everytimg into a book Offices I piled floor to ceiling with paper. So would you invest in a Tech Venture led by a goverment that hasn’t figured out the invention of the typewriter.

By: Godfrey

Godfrey — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:53:29 +0000

The land where the proposed ICT hub will stand is already the subject of controversy. It is a group ranch and, apparently, the directors got into a deal with the government without the knowledge of shareholders. Hundreds of millions were paid to the said directors, then one of them died, then politicians got involved, then the police and the whole issue has raised lots of controversy. Let me stop at that because the case is ongoing.

By: Shazam

Shazam — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:12:01 +0000

Are these the same people who come to the west and encourage us to invest back home? They are very accessible in USA where they are even willing to visit your house. However, try to contact them in Kenya. They are mini-gods who have layers of “protection”…their assistants will never give you an audience with their bosses. I am so dissappointed and anything out of their mouths is untrustworthy!