Barrack

One thing that is glaring is that a lot of these work in Silos. A mash up of higher learning institutions, hubs, incubators, accelerators and businesses need to be prioritized to achieve true breakthroughs.

Of all the learning institutions I can single out Strathmore as the one closest to achieving true synergies between government, private sector and the start up community. This needs to be emulated by the rest of the country.

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On 27 Jun 2016, at 10:10 PM, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> wrote:

Many thanks Ali, Wangari , Kivuva, Ahmed, Timothy and Walu for your
timely and well thought interventions, i am just wondering how do we
strengthen the Capacity of local Hubs providing mentorship and
incubation such as I lab Africa, I Hub, C4D Lab , LakeHub and Swahili
Box?, are there any policy incentives that can bolster the Capacity of
this Institutions? Is there a way Government initiatives such as Tivet
can be redesigned to promote growth of the local ICT industry from
mashinani?

I look forwad to your comments on the same...

On 6/27/16, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
A review of the ICT Start-up ecosystem is totally lacking in this policy
document. It is imperative that we do a deep dive of this ecosystem and
ensure that private and public/government efforts are aligned. Totally. It
is nonsensical to think that this sector will become world class without
private, public and government working in tandem.

Some of the areas to look into:-

a) Capacity building for entrepreneurs
b) A regulatory environment that is super conducive to the ecosystem while
protecting the public good.
c) Access to markets outside the country
d) Access to cheap capital.

Regards

Ali Hussein
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Hussein & Associates
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On 27 Jun 2016, at 9:43 PM, Wangari Kabiru via kictanet
<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:


Blessed Monday!

Comments to today's deliberations;

* eCommerce
- Growth highly tied to financial services as it is about exchange of
value; innovation, convenience, security

* National Addressing System
- Building codes as a regulation; may be caught up with new construction
works with a requirement to be "digi-compliant" as part of the standard
code.
- Keep in mind in all Urban cities and townships of rural areas, there are
sprawling informal settlements and slums - how to apply this otherwise
masses are left behind.
- Academia front; what courses are ongoing or to be created to support
this
- With the massive infrastructural developments, tie up e.g the road works
with the fibre works or any other visionary works that support ICT
developments so that we do not have double work done, e.g airport works,
SGR railway works

* Local eBusiness
* BPOs
* Investment incentives (Equity Shares)
- For the above, a relook at why we seem to go forward and backwards would
be useful. BPOs hype was there not too long ago. I would say we are lazily
satisfied with a scratch of the sector.
- Create a shift from consumer to mass creator
- Academia would be a great partner to drive this

*  ICTs in SME, (Small Medium Size Enterprises)
- Firstly SME in Kenya is probably your jua kali outfit
- Anything beyond that is high chances not owned locally or majority of
the ownership
- Taking cognisance of this, the policy must speak into the small nature
of the Kenyan SME and not camouflage the needs
- Back again to the need to engage closely with the Ministry of
Industrialisation

*ICT regional export incentives
- The incentives need to be beyond the East Africa Community
- i.e make the market BIG which is attractive for trade

* Local Device Manufacturing
- Sincerely this is the turning key for our nation in ICT
- Whether Kenya is an attractive manufacturing point or not
- This impacts on the import policies
- Relook, reevaluate, withdraw trade agreements and relations that do not
allow the true development of ICT manufacturing
- Back to interministerial relations on policy matters


Blessed day!

Regards/WangariOn Jun 27, 2016 07:42, Barrack Otieno via kictanet
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Listers,

As was the case last week, feel  free to contribute on previous
threads as long as you pick the corresponding title.  Also remember,
if you wish to  directly edit the Draft ICT policy, visit Jadili
platform  (http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/kenya-ict-policy),
register and post.

So onto todays theme:

* eCommerce, National Addressing System
* Local eBusiness,
*  BPOs
* Investment incentives (Equity Shares)
* ICTs in SME, (Small Medium Size Enterprises)
* ICT regional export incentives
* Local Device Manufacturing

The Background:

Building new ICT enterprises while integrating ICTs in existing
enterprises, particularly the SMEs will accelerate the overall
productivity of our  economy while increasing  the percentage
Contribution of ICT to the national GDP.

Previous attempts to play in the BPO sector have been made but this
has not yet played out successfully. Additionally very few indigenous
ICT firms exist, let alone venture out to the regional markets.
Attempts to have a vibrant local assembly/manufacturing of consumer
goods or devices (phones, tablets, laptops) seem also seems stunted.

What policies, strategies should we propose? We would like to  hear
your views over the next 12hrs.

Thank you

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