Bwana Ndemo, I have just browsed the report and you may be onto something. Sometimes I do question these kinds of studies....the methodology, sample used (how representative it is) etc. etc. Below is an extract from the report, the 2nd bullet point alone would be a problem in the Kenyan context, there seems to be a lot on the issue of 'infrastructure' and 'usage and skills' throughout. Yes, I may love academic research but there is something too academic about this one.....let me rest my case there....here is the said extract: The results from academic research suggested that in order to construct an index or scorecard of connectivity that actually linked connectivity to economic performance, we needed to look at: • whether countries were “connecting up” in the right places—e.g., countries were deploying infrastructure and making use of telecommunications and ICT in those sectors of the economy that were most important to generating long-term economic growth, • whether investment in infrastructure was being matched up by investment in “usage or skills”, and • how economically beneficial investment in infrastructure was, as opposed to investment in usage and skills. We therefore had to answer the following questions: • If the economy was divided into its constituent actors— the government sector, the business sector and the consumer sector—how to weight the importance of these sectors in a way that captures the role of the business sector in terms of productivity contributions? • How can we rank countries according to, not just the availability of infrastructure and the penetration rate of infrastructure, but also the usage level of the infrastructure by consumers, businesses and governments? How can we factor in the complementary investments in human and organisational capital, particularly by businesses, i.e. in what we call “useful connectivity”? Thus the Connectivity Scorecard methodology: • divided the economy into the consumer sector, the business sector, and the government sector, • gave weights to the consumer sector, business sector and government sector that matched their importance in economic activity, • split each of the consumer, business and government categories into “infrastructure” and “usage and skills” components and allocated individual measures to either of these two sub-categories3, and • allocated weights to the “infrastructure” and “usage and skills” categories. ________________________________ From: "bitange@jambo.co.ke" <bitange@jambo.co.ke> To: elizaslider@yahoo.com Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:32:14 PM Subject: Re: [kictanet] Kenya: Good Mobile Access Fails To Boost Weak Connectivity Rating 2009 Was this a research? If so what was the methodology used? Kenya was full of praise for starting free secondary education. Although we have some challenges in terms of connectivity we are not that bad. Ndemo.
Its a new way of measuring connectivity do you agree with the verdict on Kenya?
<http://www.connectivityscorecard.org/countries/kenya>
Good Mobile Access Fails To Boost Weak Connectivity Rating
Kenya’s performance on the 2009 Connectivity Scorecard places it nearly at the bottom of the nations sampled. In almost every consumer and business measure of connectivity, Kenya failed to achieve a passing score. Exceptions include an above average proportion of the population provided with mobile access, and a relatively high literacy rate. Kenya displays one of the worst secondary school enrolment rates out of all the countries surveyed, along with weak broadband and internet penetration. Bandwidth availability is also quite low. Kenya’s E-Government ranking falls below the median.
Despite a history of innovation, notably in the mobile segment, Kenya’s economic progress is held back by a lack of investment in human development in order to provide workers with the skills necessary to drive an ICT-based economy. Regulation of the telecommunications sector has also slowed development of the broadband services required to create a more sophisticated business infrastructure.
Kenya Connectivity Performance by Scorecard Component
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