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Got this yesterday at the “BarCamp after-party” with the web4dev guys. The pic was taken on another iphone on celtel and the iphone in the pic has a safcom sim.

I must say that everything that’s been said about this device is absolutely true but you must see it to be convinced. I know I am.

Many thanks to Hellene for demo-ing the device to us

Its official people, barcamp 2.0 will be on Saturday 24th at Strathmore University. I’ll definitely be attending participating. See you there and do spread the word

Here’s the invite

Over the last few months, we’ve had discussions with various techies, entrepreneurs, and just kawa guys about why Kenya is still lagging in terms of ICT innovation and entrepreneurship.

This BarCamp, we’d just like to have a CONVERSATION with all of you. Moderated by Dr Kamau Gachigi, we would like you all to come and help us brainstorm through issues, and hopefully find the causes & solution to start fostering ICT innovation.

Some of the questions we have been asking ourselves:
- why don’t we have a culture of innovation
- what is wrong with the education system
- why don’t we have enough ICT entrepreneurs eg software & web-app companies (our own facebook ?)
- why are we lagging behind in e-commerce … why don’t we have a payment gateway yet

Date: 24 November 2007
Venue: Strathmore University, Room 34
Time: 9.30am to 2.00pm
Moderator: Dr Kamau Gachigi

Organizer Contacts
- Riyaz Bachani
- Josiah Mugambi
- Kenneth Ndirangu
- David Kiania
- Daudi Were
- Brian Muita
- Michael Kamunge
- (add yourself - volunteer)

We plan to invite various people to this one:
- google
- ICT Board
- Kictanet
- (let us know)

More information (& Sign Up) is on the wiki
http://wiki.my.co.ke/index.php/BarCamp

07/11 EDITED TO ADD: The skunkworks wiki link above may be unavailable at times. Their server tends to do awol quite a bit

This doc should be on the ICT board’s site, which I’m guessing is this one, but there is no site to begin with but some google partner page(huh?).

Looks like the site is now showing but this doc is not up there yet.

Some key things about the transcript:

• It gives a brief history of the Kenya ICT Board, its composition and what it does. The board has five programmes currently: E-government, digital villages, infrastructure, content(of which there has been a lot of talk(!) on skunkworks) and finally BPO which was the focus of the meeting.
• Nik Nesbitt of Kencall fame shares his experiences.

You can download the pdf here