[kictanet] Day 4 of 10- BPO Discussions, Govt Subsidies

[Barrack Otieno]

Thanks Nyaki, i have copied the Statistics on a word document for onward
digestion, i was just being loud to sell my point, i enjoy learning from our
scholars MM, Waema, Dr Ndemo and many others on the list the discussion is
great


On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Catherine Adeya <elizaslider at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Barrack,
>
> The great thing about such a forum is there is no right or wrong answer as
> long as you are on topic...one need not be a scholar to make a worthwhile
> contribution. Even some of us...so called scholars sometimes fumble in our
> responses....I read some of what I wrote yesterday and saw a few errors but
> hey I wanted to ensure that I was contributing in a timely manner. The long
> and short of what I am trying to say is your contribution below is well
> understood and does not require further scholarly elaboration, others will
> just tease out issues from it and flesh it out if need be.
>
> I hope this also helps the many listers out there in cyberspace who would
> like to say something but are feeling slightly overwhelmed by these
> 'scholars'. Enjoy chatting....KICTANET is your space............
>
>
> Nyaki
>
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> *From:* Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com>
> *To:* elizaslider at yahoo.com
> *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> *Sent:* Friday, June 5, 2009 9:03:10 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] Day 4 of 10- BPO Discussions, Govt Subsidies
>
> Walu, and fellow Listers, i think the clause that requires local investors
> to on twenty percent might be counter productive for an emerging market such
> as Kenya at this point in time, i like d Dr Ndemo's suggestion of requiring
> the companies to list on the stock exchange so that locals can then own a
> chunk of it, remember Kenya is a "small market" to most multinationals no
> wonder large companies prefer dealing with clusters MEA and the likes. On
> another note Barclays Bank had a program where they were taking members of
> their business club to Hong Kong and the likes, fellow listers we should not
> underestimate the Value of EXPOSURE, Kenya has a well educated workforce
> but they just need to be tickled by exposure and you will be surprised at
> the outcome, could someone help me elaborate on this it may not be scholarly
> enough !
>
> On 6/5/09, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> -Dear Listers,
>>
>> I must thank all for your insights over the last few days.  I like the
>> challenge that asked whether we are "over-regulating" an emerging market as
>> the "answer" to the question on if we have legal and regulatory gaps.
>> Listers are encouraged to challenge and not just answer the questions. Other
>> arising issues included where we want to play within the BPO Value Chain,
>> the Impact of the Political (in-)stability, the need to map our Data
>> Protection laws to those in the target markets are just but some of the
>> highlights I picked - and by all means this is NOT exhaustive as am still
>> reading through the contributions.
>>
>> But today we need to open the theme on Government subsidies. The
>> Researchers found the S.Africa and India had elaborate subsidy provisions
>> for the sector that included Tax Holidays and Exemptions, Investment Grants
>> to BPO operators, Training Subsidies, One-stop shop for Corporate Company
>> Registrations that could be 100% foreign owned, etc. The Researchers noted
>> the unique Mauritius case which had similar incentives but eventually
>> abolished most of them arguing that they were more beneficial to the
>> Operators than to the Nation.
>>
>> On the Kenyan front - other than the not so succesfull Govt Bandwidth
>> subsidies for Operators, very little in terms of incentives was available to
>> BPO Operators. It was noted that the BPO operators had to be within the EPZ
>> in order to enjoy the subsidies other EPZ corporates operates - the problem
>> being that most BPO operaters exist outside the EPZ area. Whats more, BPO
>> operators had to pay additional charges to be registered by the CCK
>> (Regulator) and should be at least 20% locally owned.
>>
>> Qtn6:  What incentives / subsidies should the government provide to BPO
>> operators?  What of the clause requiring 20% Local shareholding in foreign
>> companies - is it prohibitive or helpful?
>>
>> Floor is open comments.
>>
>> walu.
>> Encl: Synthesis 2:- Subsidies and Incentives
>>
>>
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