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

Wed Jan 14 14:27:09 EAT 2015

What is measured when factoring the contributions?

Might one of the issues be the return of a sizeable grey market due to
impact of taxes?

Some of the manufacturers have even resorted to applying warranty to grey
market devices after it dawned on them many of their devices are being
dealt out of channel.

On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:29 Eugene Lidede (Synergy) via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

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> synergy.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke] *On Behalf Of *S.M. Muraya via
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> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 14, 2015 10:27 AM
> *To:* Eugene Lidede
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> *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] Is our ICT GDP growth unable to match national
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> @Walu I have not given up on the ICT sector.
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> Some years ago, I purposed to address issues future generations should not
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> Starting this year, we will be running a few workshops to expose some
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> It is not right for straightforward people to remain in the shadows of
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> *"Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one
> who takes a city." Prov 16:32*
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> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> @Kieti,
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> I am interested in this type of data. Plse share the actual url for your
> data.  The search tool  on the general KBNS website @
> http://www.knbs.or.ke/ is not returning what the specific data/chart.
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> @Muraya
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> You sound like you have given up on the ICT sector...plse dont. Bado
> mapambano, mapambano, mapambanooo... :-)
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> *From:* S.M. Muraya via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> *To:* jwalu at yahoo.com
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 14, 2015 3:56 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] Is our ICT GDP growth unable to match national
> GDP growth?
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> John,
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> No doubt, the usual vices have kept ICT from growing as it should in
> Kenya.
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> 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.
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> *"Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one
> who takes a city." Prov 16:32*
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> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 9:15 PM, John Kieti via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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> Dear Listers,
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> What do pundits here think?
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