John,

No doubt, the usual vices have kept ICT from growing as it should in Kenya.

After being subcontracted by some kickback experts, last year a young technologist/entrepreneur got in the game for government contracts. He has won the approval of some public officers but has lost the respect/trust of decent technologists ): For the Tenderprenuers who dominate our industry, the money is in tender awards, in hardware supplies and software licensing, not in building/providing services which improve the lives of Kenyans.

Regards

Murigi / Stanley Muraya

"Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city." Prov 16:32

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 9:15 PM, John Kieti via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Dear Listers,

One would expect ICT to be the fastest growing economic sector in Kenya. Incidentally its not. In fact there's a declining trend; according to the rebased national accounts data of 2014 - see visualization attached. The absolute ICT GDP figures have grown modestly from KES 50 billion in 2006 to KES 68 billion in 2013, and quite dismally when compared to national GDP which grew from KES 1.8 trillion to KES 4.7 trillion over the same period.

Granted researchers suggest that much of the positive impact of ICT is felt indirectly in other economic sectors, are we seeing a suboptimal growth of ICT's direct contributors to GDP over the years?

What do pundits here think?

br

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