<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Bwana Ndemo,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I have just browsed the report and you may be onto something. Sometimes I do question these kinds of studies....the methodology, sample used (how representative it is) etc. etc. Below is an extract from the report, the 2nd bullet point alone would be a problem in the Kenyan context, there seems to be a lot on the issue of 'infrastructure' and 'usage and skills' throughout. Yes, I may love academic research but there is something too academic about this one.....let me rest my case there....here is the said extract</span>:<br><br><span style="font-family:
arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The results from academic research suggested that in order to construct an index or</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">scorecard of connectivity that actually linked connectivity to economic performance, we</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">needed to look at:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">• whether countries were “connecting up” in the right places—e.g., countries were</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">deploying infrastructure and making use of telecommunications and ICT in</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span
style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">those sectors of the economy that were most important to generating long-term</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">economic growth,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">• whether investment in infrastructure was being matched up by investment in</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">“usage or skills”, and</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">• how economically beneficial investment in infrastructure was, as opposed to</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">investment in usage and skills.</span><br style="font-family:
arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">We therefore had to answer the following questions:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">• If the economy was divided into its constituent actors— the government sector,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">the business sector and the consumer sector—how to weight the importance of</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">these sectors in a way that captures the role of the business sector in terms of</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">productivity contributions?</span><br style="font-family:
arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">• How can we rank countries according to, not just the availability of infrastructure</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">and the penetration rate of infrastructure, but also the usage level of the</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">infrastructure by consumers, businesses and governments? How can we factor</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">in the complementary investments in human and organisational capital,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">particularly by businesses, i.e. in what we call “useful connectivity”?</span><br style="font-family:
arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Thus the Connectivity Scorecard methodology:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">• divided the economy into the consumer sector, the business sector, and the</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">government sector,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">• gave weights to the consumer sector, business sector and government sector</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">that matched their importance in economic activity,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:
arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">• split each of the consumer, business and government categories into</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">“infrastructure” and “usage and skills” components and allocated individual</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">measures to either of these two sub-categories3, and</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">• allocated weights to the “infrastructure” and “usage and skills” categories.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">From:</span></b> "bitange@jambo.co.ke" <bitange@jambo.co.ke><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> elizaslider@yahoo.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:32:14 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kictanet] Kenya: Good Mobile Access Fails To Boost Weak Connectivity Rating 2009<br></font><br>
Was this a research? If so what was the methodology used? Kenya was full<br>of praise for starting free secondary education. Although we have some<br>challenges in terms of connectivity we are not that bad.<br><br>Ndemo.<br><br><br><br>><br>> Its a new way of measuring connectivity do you agree with the<br>> verdict on Kenya?<br>><br>><br>><br>> <<a href="http://www.connectivityscorecard.org/countries/kenya" target="_blank">http://www.connectivityscorecard.org/countries/kenya</a>><br>><br>><br>><br>> Good Mobile Access Fails To Boost Weak Connectivity Rating<br>><br>> Kenya’s performance on the 2009 Connectivity Scorecard places it nearly<br>> at the bottom of the nations sampled. In almost every consumer and<br>> business measure of connectivity, Kenya failed to achieve a passing<br>> score.
Exceptions include an above average proportion of the population<br>> provided with mobile access, and a relatively high literacy rate. Kenya<br>> displays one of the worst secondary school enrolment rates out of all<br>> the countries surveyed, along with weak broadband and internet<br>> penetration. Bandwidth availability is also quite low. Kenya’s<br>> E-Government ranking falls below the median.<br>><br>> Despite a history of innovation, notably in the mobile segment, Kenya’s<br>> economic progress is held back by a lack of investment in human<br>> development in order to provide workers with the skills necessary to<br>> drive an ICT-based economy. Regulation of the telecommunications sector<br>> has also slowed development of the broadband services required to create<br>> a more sophisticated business infrastructure.<br>><br>><br>> Kenya Connectivity Performance by
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