[kictanet] Africa IT Jobs Outsourced to China ? Africa

[Mark Mwangi]

Unfortunately these things have to come from the top. Someone or some
institution must brave the fallout from foreigners loosing revenue and the
related political fallout and acrimony. This person needs to be senior
enough to absorb the pressure for his deputies to implement. This is
usually the president and his cabinet.

Look at the directive that govt offices should not buy chinese furniture. I
still see chinese furniture allover. China is a friend but you dont let you
friend sleep with your daughter now do you? They can sell in the open
market but govt offices must buy from the local manufacturers.

Same can be done for road constructions, buildings, ICT tenders etc.
Divorcing business from govt is a bad idea as I have seen being suggested.
Govt knows its needs let it source locally and insist it wants local
suppliers.


On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:

> Exactly Matunda..
>
> In my previous life when I worked in the motor industry there was a
> requirement that commercial vehicles required a minimum of 40% local
> content. And although we never succeeded in building our own vehicles from
> scratch (Nyayo car anyone?) we succeeded in creating a vibrant local OEM
> industry that still exists to date.
>
> This was government policy. And it worked. Where and when did we lose the
> plot?
>
> We must start as a country to act GLOCAL (Think Global but act Local).
>
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> *Ali Hussein*
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> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Matunda Nyanchama <
> mnyanchama at aganoconsulting.com> wrote:
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>> On this subject, we really need laws that would guarantee capacity
>> building, e.g. you can require that at least 40% local participation in
>> every aspect of a contract where the principal winner is a foreign company.
>> In the case of infrastructure projects, this will entail that level of
>> participation right from conception, feasibility, financing, design,
>> implementation, ...
>>
>> Kwani how else are we supposed to build capabilities?
>>
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