[kictanet] ICT/BPO Marketing Strategy

[John Walubengo]

Hey Wambui,

No offense meant with regard to BPO.  Its just that your concerns were beginning to sound somewhat personal than generic.  As Otuoma mentions in another mail, there seems to be things beyond the ICTBoard that could be effected - e.g on Bandwidth susbsidies because of pending funds from World Bank...

walu.
NB: and by the way, this Richard guy if I could speak for him, is actually still in the BPO industry, he simply diversified into non-bandwidth intensive processes and in the interim focuses in Backoffice rather than bandwidth intensive Call-center operations. He does for example, data transcripting, research, training, etc). Something to keep you busy as you await bigger things.  


--- On Thu, 8/7/08, Wambui Wakarema <wambuiwakarema at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Wambui Wakarema <wambuiwakarema at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] ICT/BPO Marketing Strategy
> To: jwalu at yahoo.com
> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 7:10 PM
> Walu
>  
> BPO will not take me to heaven, but is a pillar of Vision
> 2030 and is an industry that can create thousands of new
> jobs in Kenya. i am surprised at your flippant attitude.
>  
> If the ICT Board cannot deliver on this very important
> mandate, then Kenya risks losing out on an industry that can
> be a very large revenue generator for this country. Our
> competitors, like South Africa, Mauritius, India, Egypt, are
> working overtime to position themselves to the markets out
> there. If Kenya doesnt position itself at this time, we
> shall lose out.
>  
> Richard Mwangi's challenges (whichever they were) are
> besides the point. Kenya needs to put in much effort if this
> industry is to become a force to reckon with.
>  
> Wambui
> 
> --- On Thu, 7/8/08, John Walubengo <jwalu at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> From: John Walubengo <jwalu at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] ICT/BPO Marketing Strategy
> To: wambuiwakarema at yahoo.co.uk
> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions"
> <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Date: Thursday, 7 August, 2008, 2:38 PM
> 
> Wambui,
> 
> ....without defending the ICTBoard (am trying to look for
> their ToRs before
> passing judgement), I can only observe that you seem to be
> single-minded and
> persistent on this BPO thing...
> 
> my general and non-ICT advice is that keep your eyes open -
> if BPO wont take
> you to heaven, am sure something else you maybe refusing to
> see will. God (or is
> it the ICTBoard?) may have shut the BPO door for you, but
> just look around and
> you will probably see many other opportunities.
> 
> Richard of richard at northwestoffshore.com, a BPO company who
> is on this list had
> similar challenges and he did manage to work around them.
> Reach him out in case
> he prefers to keep his silence on the list. 
> 
> walu.
>   
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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