[kictanet] Day 6 of 10 - Statistics on Dispersion- CCK Internet Report

[John Walubengo]

Lets extend 1day (today) on the above theme...

I know the recent posts have commented on the above.  In
particular, the 'conflicting' approaches with regard to
infrastructure development b/w Govt & Private Sector.

I think Govt feels that the Private sector initiatives into
the rural areas has been lacking hence their intervention. 
Private sector may feel that Govt is 'duplicating' their
efforts or presenting 'unfair' competition in that space.

I think the report had a middle ground where the Universal
Access Fund (UAF)is deployed.  Private sector would be
'funded' to implement infrastructure in non-economic zones
using the UAF.  In other words the Goverment advances the
funds and the Private Sector implements the projects.  I
don't know if this would present a middle-ground or
addresses a different issue?

walu.

--- John Walubengo <jwalubengo at kcct.ac.ke> wrote:

> <<<a prayer for the missing KQ passengers, Mt Elgon &
> other Land-Clashes victims observed>>>
> 
> and now I Wish to thank all for the surge of
> contributions that are continuing to come through.  Plse
> keep them flowing as we move into today's theme
> -Statistics on Dispersion.
> 
> snip >>The Report found that even though ISPs were
> present in all the 8 Provinces, they were hardly present
> at the districts level * covering only 30% of the
> districts in Kenya.  In addition, of the three key
> stakeholders, Government, Educational and Commercial, the
> Commercial sector had the bulk of the existing Internet
> Connectivity (80%) while the Education Sector had the
> lowest (less than 2%).  Finally, of the estimated 2.8
> Million Internet users in the country, 80% are in the
> capital city Nairobi, 9% in Mombasa and the rest (11%)
> are spread across the country.<<snip
> 
> Quite bleak statistics and my recent trip to my rural
> home (Bungoma) confirmed it.  Even the supposedly
> ubiqitous GPRS access failed to deliver and yet it works
> wonders in the urban setting.  The fixed line access was
> out of question - despite me having a laptop that could
> have hooked onto the (suprisingly?) available telephone
> line. Problem was that the phone was 'Hard-wired' to the
> headset -old models- that cannot allow flexibility to
> port onto a laptop. 
> 
> The other wireless option (Wifi, Wimax or Butterfly et
> al) are yet to hit he region...so the question is what 
> initiatives can be done to improve on the above bleak
> statistics?
> 
> 1-day discussion.
> 
> walu.
> 
> 


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