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

Fri Jun 5 23:26:53 EAT 2009

I second that as their comments would be very useful going forward as the findings and discussions need to feed into policy.

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From: "godera at skyweb.co.ke" <godera at skyweb.co.ke>
To: elizaslider at yahoo.com
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Friday, June 5, 2009 8:51:23 PM
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Day 4 of 10- BPO Discussions, Govt Subsidies

As a matter of interest, is there anyone in the Vision 2030 team or the NESC on
this list? I would love to hear a comment from them on how they intend to work
with us to wake up this industry.

Gilda Odera
Quoting Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com>:

> 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
> >
> > ------------------------------
> > *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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> >
> > --
> > Barrack O. Otieno
> > ISSEN CONSULTING
> > Tel:
> > +254721325277
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> > http://projectdiscovery.or.ke
> > To give up the task of reforming society is to give up ones responsibility
> > as a free man.
> > Alan Paton, South Africa
> >
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Barrack O. Otieno
> ISSEN CONSULTING
> Tel:
> +254721325277
> +254733206359
> http://projectdiscovery.or.ke
> To give up the task of reforming society is to give up ones responsibility
> as a free man.
> Alan Paton, South Africa
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