[kictanet] Day 5 - Statistics on Affordability -CCKInternetStudy Report

Fri May 4 17:46:08 EAT 2007

Thanks Fatma,

Much appreciated.

Joan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fatma Bashir" <fbashir at cyberschooltech.com>
To: "Kenya ICT Action Network - KICTANet" <kictanet at kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Day 5 - Statistics on
Affordability -CCKInternetStudy Report

> Joan,
>
> I dont have statistics but working in the education sector, I see what KDN
> sees in the schools, schools will be the incubation ground for the demand
> for ICT in the rural areas (60% of schools are in rural areas). In about a
> year and a half years time the picture will start changing as high school
> graduates will be computer savvy and naturally opt to continue pursuing
> interests ranging from search of opportunities for enterpreneurship to
> formal job hunting using the internet or just keeping intouch!.
>
> Further more when we look at schools and their facilities, they can easily
> become the information centres for the communities around them and also
> offer affordable capacity building to the parents of the students nearby.
> Then they will start to look for ways to make some money and the
> international/local content picture will start to swing in our favor.
>
> Imagine one day you will go online and order your chopped sukuma wiki and
> packet of carrots from the local mama mbogo outside your estate, she will
> deliver to your house you will pay her on your way back home or GOd knows
> even online?. its the form form leaver who will have designed the website
> for her and its the nearby school that will have taught her computer 101.
>
> whats missing is the segment that should be dealing with Capacity Building
> in an informal way or even sensitizing and awareness ( ie we dont have to
> attend college proper we can just go to the neighbourhood place and learn
> some basics) I think that this is where the Lag might be felt by the likes
> of KDN...and others.
>
> Fatma
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joan Walumbe" <jwalumbe at globalnetcorps.org>
> To: <fbashir at cyberschooltech.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 10:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Day 5 - Statistics on Affordability -
> CCKInternetStudy Report
>
>
> > Walu,
> >
> > I agree with you that affordablity is a factor especially for rural
> > communities when it comes to access to the internet. But I think that
lack
> > of awareness is an even bigger factor. It's fine for the urban folk (who
> > already recognise the benefits to the internet etc.) taking a short
break
> > in
> > shags to have the internet access when back home, but it there is no
> > demand
> > for the internet among the residents what is the point?
> >
> > So does KDN enter a market and then hope to create demand or is their a
> > market that demands the service or is it a little of both?
> >
> > I understand that Kai would not be venturing into the rural areas if it
> > did
> > not make any financial sense.  Can anyone provide some info/statistics
on
> > demand for internet access in rural areas?
> >
> > Joan Walumbe
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Walubengo" <jwalubengo at kcct.ac.ke>
> > To: <kictanet at kictanet.or.ke>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 9:01 AM
> > Subject: [kictanet] Day 5 - Statistics on Affordability - CCK
> > InternetStudy
> > Report
> >
> >
> > Day 5- Statistics on Affordability.
> >
> > I acknowledge an interesting thread filtering in on Trust relationships
> > b/w
> > IGOs/ISPs...feel  free to continue contributing on that as well as on
> > today's theme on affordability (multi-tasking
> > encouraged by internet technologies ...)
> >
> > and just to pick up from Kai's projection of KDN fiber hitting Bungoma
in
> > early August 2007.  This would be quite a welcome and timely
development,
> > but at what cost to the consumer? To  what extend will the (internet)
> > services be affordable to the rural/average communities?
> >
> > Affordability is a subjective term gven that what is considered cheap by
> > the
> > Bill Gates of  this world is probably not so for the average Kenyan on
the
> > street.  In trying to get an  objective measurement for affordability,
the
> > Report pegged it on the national average  incomes.  In other words, if
the
> > monthly average income in Kenya is around 100USD and if the  average
> > monthly
> > cost for internet access is also around 100USD then obviously the
average
> > Kenyan will not bother with accessing the Internet - it just becomes way
> > beyond their means  or too expensive or not affordable.
> >
> > The report indicated that access through the more convenient Internet
> > Dial-up/Desktop  services costed over 200% the average incomes (too
> > expensive), while the same access through  mobile phones was costing
just
> > 8%
> > of the average incomes (quite affordable).  What needs to  be done in
> > order
> > to make Internet Services more afforable to Kenyans?
> >
> > 1 day deliberation on this one.
> >
> > walu.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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