[kictanet] FW: [ke-internetusers] ICT Board's accreditation of BPO Society

[John Walubengo]

mmmh, 

looks like this BPO breakfast kicked off a storm in the tea
cup(s)...hope the storm does not blow-off the emerging
local BPO industry.

Kukubo, Victor, et al,- u had better have a damage control
department ;-)

walu.

--- Harry Hare <harry at africanedevelopment.org> wrote:

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> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 11:37 PM
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> Subject: [ke-internetusers] ICT Board's accreditation of
> BPO Society
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> This morning I attended a breakfast meeting hosted by the
> newly appointed
> ICT Board but which turned out to be a flag waving event
> for some private
> club called the BPO Society.
> 
> It is interesting what happens when you pick private
> sector people and give
> them the mandate to run a public institution.  Last time
> I checked single
> sourcing for government services can only be done after
> requesting exemption
> from the Ministry of Finance, but I stand corrected.
> 
> The ICT Board has unilaterally appointed the BPO Society
> as the only bona
> fide forwarder of licensing applications for  any BPO
> business, under which
> gazette notice was this status issued?  It is interesting
> how a state agency
> can send me to pay a private club (Kes. 35,000/-) for
> them to forward my
> application to set up a business.  Even at the height of
> bureaucracy
> institutions like the Chamber of Commerce never had such
> powers, so where
> does the ICT Board get the authority to single source for
> a vetting agency?
> 
> The answer to the whole issue came out in a subtle manner
> on one of the
> slides US$ 11.4 Million (Kes. 0.75 Billion) for capacity
> building of the BPO
> industry. Somebody seriously needs to monitor this new
> private sector dream
> teams.  
> 
> This are the acts that stifle young industries, I think
> to grow the BPO
> business in this country we need to have the government
> look the other way
> to let entrepreneurs do what they have to do like the
> council did with the
> issue of private garbage collectors and CCK with courier
> service providers.
> Let legislation follow ingenuity & creativity, the other
> way just doesn't
> work.
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