[kictanet] Draft National ICT Policy Discussions Day 5 of 10: How to Develop the local ICT Industry

Tue Jun 28 13:22:38 EAT 2016

Hi all,

Awards, prizes, competitions can be a good way of developing the local ICT
industry. Academic institutions can be at the forefront of this. Here is an
example:
http://www.raeng.org.uk/grants-and-prizes/international-research-and-collaborations/africa-prize

Regards,
Mildred Achoch.

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On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:58 PM, Wangari Kabiru via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Blessed evening!
>
> This weekend, CUEA has a grand opening for its Business Incubation Centre
> which is highly commendable and exciting.
>
> On the other front why has this major player not had one from before? And
> this applies to many colleges and universities that are yet to set up
> Innovation Centres.
>
> a. For something to have enmass effect, it needs to be part of the "day to
> day"; part of school life, workplace, shopping experience, eating time
> experience.
> - One-off Hubs i.e what we have now have got their place; flexible,
> responsive, trend setting
> -  Hubs to become part of the life experience; even with specialisation
> - Academia and Community hubs funding from public kitties; not just
> reliance on donors
>
> b. Intrapreneurship;
> - Too much experience and talent by persons working in organisations with
> resources is going wasted
> - Incentives to Private Organisations to promote; This may be through the
> Membership organisations and Associations
> - Back to R&D
>
> c. Private Sector; Training &
> Development
> - We have a few still great ones. While we fail here with many firms
> - Most of private sector cannot stand up to be counted in HRD through
> training
> -This is the way to keep growing the skills of the people
>
> d. Government
> - Public interest is held by the Government
> - Allocate competitive funds for bids by organisations to manage
> incubation programmes
>
> e. Is there something like a National ICT Skills inventory?
> - Like the way we know the number of Opticians in the country and their
> specialisations
> - This would apply to higher order ICT skills
> - While forecasting into future needs and skilling for the future needs
> - So TIVETs plug in to release skills not just by number of people
>
>
> Blessed evening!
>
> Regards/Wangari
>
> On Jun 27, 2016 22:10, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> >
> > Many thanks Ali, Wangari , Kivuva, Ahmed, Timothy and Walu for your
> > timely and well thought interventions, i am just wondering how do we
> > strengthen the Capacity of local Hubs providing mentorship and
> > incubation such as I lab Africa, I Hub, C4D Lab , LakeHub and Swahili
> > Box?, are there any policy incentives that can bolster the Capacity of
> > this Institutions? Is there a way Government initiatives such as Tivet
> > can be redesigned to promote growth of the local ICT industry from
> > mashinani?
> >
> > I look forwad to your comments on the same...
> >
> > On 6/27/16, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> wrote:
> > > A review of the ICT Start-up ecosystem is totally lacking in this
> policy
> > > document. It is imperative that we do a deep dive of this ecosystem and
> > > ensure that private and public/government efforts are aligned.
> Totally. It
> > > is nonsensical to think that this sector will become world class
> without
> > > private, public and government working in tandem.
> > >
> > > Some of the areas to look into:-
> > >
> > > a) Capacity building for entrepreneurs
> > > b) A regulatory environment that is super conducive to the ecosystem
> while
> > > protecting the public good.
> > > c) Access to markets outside the country
> > > d) Access to cheap capital.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Ali Hussein
> > > Principal
> > > Hussein & Associates
> > > +254 0713 601113 / 0770906375
> > >
> > > Twitter: @AliHKassim
> > > Skype: abu-jomo
> > > LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
> > >
> > >
> > > "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking
> what
> > > no one else has thought".  ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPad
> > >
> > >> On 27 Jun 2016, at 9:43 PM, Wangari Kabiru via kictanet
> > >> <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Blessed Monday!
> > >>
> > >> Comments to today's deliberations;
> > >>
> > >> * eCommerce
> > >> - Growth highly tied to financial services as it is about exchange of
> > >> value; innovation, convenience, security
> > >>
> > >> * National Addressing System
> > >> - Building codes as a regulation; may be caught up with new
> construction
> > >> works with a requirement to be "digi-compliant" as part of the
> standard
> > >> code.
> > >> - Keep in mind in all Urban cities and townships of rural areas,
> there are
> > >> sprawling informal settlements and slums - how to apply this otherwise
> > >> masses are left behind.
> > >> - Academia front; what courses are ongoing or to be created to support
> > >> this
> > >> - With the massive infrastructural developments, tie up e.g the road
> works
> > >> with the fibre works or any other visionary works that support ICT
> > >> developments so that we do not have double work done, e.g airport
> works,
> > >> SGR railway works
> > >>
> > >> * Local eBusiness
> > >> * BPOs
> > >> * Investment incentives (Equity Shares)
> > >> - For the above, a relook at why we seem to go forward and backwards
> would
> > >> be useful. BPOs hype was there not too long ago. I would say we are
> lazily
> > >> satisfied with a scratch of the sector.
> > >> - Create a shift from consumer to mass creator
> > >> - Academia would be a great partner to drive this
> > >>
> > >> *  ICTs in SME, (Small Medium Size Enterprises)
> > >> - Firstly SME in Kenya is probably your jua kali outfit
> > >> - Anything beyond that is high chances not owned locally or majority
> of
> > >> the ownership
> > >> - Taking cognisance of this, the policy must speak into the small
> nature
> > >> of the Kenyan SME and not camouflage the needs
> > >> - Back again to the need to engage closely with the Ministry of
> > >> Industrialisation
> > >>
> > >> *ICT regional export incentives
> > >> - The incentives need to be beyond the East Africa Community
> > >> - i.e make the market BIG which is attractive for trade
> > >>
> > >> * Local Device Manufacturing
> > >> - Sincerely this is the turning key for our nation in ICT
> > >> - Whether Kenya is an attractive manufacturing point or not
> > >> - This impacts on the import policies
> > >> - Re
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