[kictanet] Is our ICT GDP growth unable to match national GDP growth?

[S.M. Muraya]

John,

No doubt, the usual vices have kept ICT from growing as it should in Kenya.

After being subcontracted by some kickback experts, last year a young
technologist/entrepreneur got in the game for government contracts. He has
won the approval of some public officers but has lost the respect/trust of
decent technologists ): For the Tenderprenuers who dominate our industry,
the money is in tender awards, in hardware supplies and software licensing,
not in building/providing services which improve the lives of Kenyans.

Regards

Murigi / Stanley Muraya

*"Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one
who takes a city." Prov 16:32*

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 9:15 PM, John Kieti via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Dear Listers,
>
> One would expect ICT to be the fastest growing economic sector in Kenya.
> Incidentally its not. In fact there's a declining trend; according to the
> rebased national accounts data of 2014 - see visualization attached. The
> absolute ICT GDP figures have grown modestly from KES 50 billion in 2006 to
> KES 68 billion in 2013, and quite dismally when compared to national GDP
> which grew from KES 1.8 trillion to KES 4.7 trillion over the same period.
>
> Granted researchers suggest that much of the positive impact of ICT is
> felt indirectly in other economic sectors, are we seeing a suboptimal
> growth of ICT's direct contributors to GDP over the years?
>
> What do pundits here think?
>
> br
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