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

[Gakuru Alex]

You summarise it very well Badru. Indeed we have soo many "approach" problems.

The actual people with potential and capability to deliver on
outsourcing (aka innovative youth) are locked out of conversations
deliberately. Investment in ICTs is "the brains" which we have plenty
of locally but do the establishment recognise this and nurture this
Human Capital? (I am not taking about a fancy conference or meeting
here or there, rather tangible strategies  lifting their innovative
ICT entreprises.) I see new barriers and obstacles, fees etc everyday
than 'enabling environment'

"Outsourcing" discussions immediately and mistakenly become "call
centre" debates, WB cash, conferences, "inspiration" trips - All while
the ICT landscape is so vast..

Notable successes by youths left 'hacking' outsourcing on their own
are emerging.

regards,

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Badru Ntege<ntegeb at one2net.co.ug> wrote:
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> I have followed the discussion queitly with keen interest.  I think the idea
> of getting our local population into some sort of gainfull employment should
> always be the primary objective.  However how we do this especially when we
> are attempting to use government funds to achieve this objective has to be a
> carefully thought out strategy with clear deliverables and exit strategy.
> On that note i totally object to any use of public funds to be used as
> operational expenditure especially in terms of bandwidth subsidy.
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> Government should look at creative ways of facilitating BPO’s through skeems
> like interest free loans to BPO’s with clear repayment plans once
> profitability is achieved.  This way we safeguard the meagre public funds
> available to our governments but also avoid public funds being spent on
> unsustainable business plans.   The future of any structure is always set at
> the foundation level.   There’s no doubt BPO in any format is going to be
> very key for the future of our economys by just the shear number of the
> population we can bring into the earning bracket and it’s not the size of
> the paycheck that makes the difference but the consistency since it creates
> money circulation.
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> So i think we have to in a way drop our facination with getting jobs from
> abroad done in kenya or Uganda but look at how many local services we can
> outsource to create more jobs.
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> Underlining rule on subsidies mainly being CAPEX and not OPEX.
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> Regards
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