[kictanet] Telecommuting Kenya Conference - Call for papers

[waudo siganga]

Great initiative Robert. What are the dates?

Waudo
Telecommuting from Mukangu Village, Kakamega


On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:10:37 +0000 (GMT), "robert yawe" <robertyawe at yahoo
.co.uk> said:

Hi All,
We are in the process of organising a conference and exhibition
to show case and discuss the readiness of Kenya to take advantage
of telecommuting as a way to ease the traffic congestion issues
while taking advantage of the technology.
In addition we can reduce staff relocation costs (financial &
emotional) as an organisation can get the best staff without
having them relocate.  There is no reason why your tax accountant
cannot work from his farm in Timau or his beach plot on Rusinga.
There is no reason why we should not be 1st african country to
distribute its parliamentary sessions.
We believe that the implementation of distributed workforces will
actually result in an increase in savings and indirect wage
increases.
It was an interesting realisation that my domestic help who earns
3,500/- can save more than my secretary who has a net take home
of 15,000/-.

                      Secretary
                                    Domestic Tech.
Net take home
                          15000
                                              3500
Expenses
Rent             5000
                                  0
Transport        2200
                                  0
Lunch            1100
Dinner/Breakfast 1500
                                  0
Clothing         1000
                                500
Utilities        1000
                                  0
Makeup/hair      1000
                                500
                          12800
                                              1000
Balance
                           2200
                                              2500

What I realise is that 80% of what my secretary does does not
actually require a face to face such as making phone calls,
replying to e-mails & editing reports.  If she did not need to
come to the office and carried out this activities from her house
she would principally have a reduction in expenses of between
3,000/- - 5,000/-.
Back to our function, to get telecommuting going we need to see
where we are and where we are going thus the objective of the
conference.
So with reference to this we are inviting papers on the follwing
issues;
1.  Infrastructure readiness (what is available)
2.  Legal interpretation (e.g. who is a permanent employee)
3.  Managing telecommuters
4.  Human Resource issues
5.  Tax and accounting (Is rent contribution to telecommuters
home allowable for tax as an expense?)
6.  Data security and integrity
7.  Any other relevant issues
Send a short brief on your paper to
"telecommuting.Conference at tradezone.co.ke"
To make the conference practical we propose to run it from 3
locations simultaneously as a way to test the available
infrastructure.
Regards

Robert Yawe
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya
Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696

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