Kenya: Good Mobile Access Fails To Boost Weak Connectivity Rating 2009
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
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
Kenyas 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. Kenyas E-Government ranking falls below the median.
Despite a history of innovation, notably in the mobile segment, Kenyas 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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It is a Nokia Siemens study using what they are calling "the connectivity scorecard" Is it a new way of measuring connectivity? not sure if this has been done elsewhere before? Full presentation can be found here http://www.connectivityscorecard.org/methodology/ brief explanation below. Methodology The Connectivity Scorecard is the first index to examine quality and quantity of ICT usage and infrastructure and to link it to a country’s social and economic prosperity. 25 ‘Resource and Efficiency Driven’ and 25 ‘Innovation Driven’ economies are studied (as defined by the World Economic Forum (WEF))* in this first phase. The first step taken is to divide the economy into 3 ‘pillars’, business, consumer and government and assign weights to these pillars. The greatest weighting is given to the business ‘pillar’ since it is a key contributor to productivity growth. For each component of the scorecard countries are benchmarked against the best-in-class in their tier. Low scores reflect gaps in a country’s infrastructure, usage or both. (see table 1 below) Results indicate there is a real opportunity to add hundreds of billions of dollars in economic benefit by rethinking how countries measure and enable connectivity. Not even the world’s richest economies can afford to be complacent. *For more information on the WEF classification system go to: http://www.weforum.org/en/fp/gcr_2006-07_highlights/index.htm /Identifying the Key Elements of Sustainable Growth, pages 10 -13" / /best / /alice / bitange@jambo.co.ke wrote:
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.
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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.
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"New" not always "better" prefer thorough, global ranking http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats1.htm On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:32 PM, <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote:
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.
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Distinguished Listers, On the surface of things the report sounds like a suitable candidate for dismissal. The methodology relied upon lacks sufficient clarity, probably due to its relative newness. Though the report has little flattering about the current Kenyan ICT landscape, it equally doesn’t paint a grim picture as such. That the study considered Kenya worthy of inclusion shows that our mobile segment has come of age to warrant research attention. What the study has summarily done is to state a factual position- that despite the seemingly huge activity setup, we are yet to realize the full benefits of the rich potential a state attributable to lack of a sound capacity building approach. A key area that has been neglected is that of proactive research to help in the identification of technology based pillars that can trigger economic kinetics. That’s why it might be vital for us to pose about what we have done as far as research is concerned before we begin to pour vitriol on the work of those whose findings are not consonant with our deeply held perceptions; that we rank head and shoulders above the rest. One of the greatest tragedies of our ICT perspective is the tendency to craft first class solutions for unclarified problems. This includes some government flagship projects. While the efforts of different players are laudable its imperative that we get more prudent about how we ride on the back of technology towards social-economic supremacy. As matters stand we might be riding on the wrong ideological bus thus implying a need to retrace the right bus or even the right technological bus station from where to advance. Kamotho Njenga On 2/27/09, alice <alice@apc.org> wrote:
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.
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