<div>Morning Walu,</div>
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<div>Going to Q5.</div>
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<div>Special Economic Zones are the in thing in Kenya as they seek to replace the defunct Export Processing Zones of yester year see <a href="http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/593146/-/rgkvwaz/-/index.html">http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/593146/-/rgkvwaz/-/index.html</a> and <a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/magazines/smartcompany/-/1226/546522/-/srd70jz/-/index.html">http://www.nation.co.ke/magazines/smartcompany/-/1226/546522/-/srd70jz/-/index.html</a></div>
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<div>It is true there was/is lots of duplication of efforts in GoK e.g. Science & Technology Parks (in Ministry of Higher Education, Science & Technology's Strategic Plan {SP}); ICT Parks (in Mo Information & Communication); Industrial Parks (in Mo Industrialization); etc. So talking of coordination now is a tall order when like the 'bulls in a pen' the likely scenario is contests and less of grazing harmoniously.</div>
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<div>Its painfull watching eloquent SPs end with the perennial requests to Treasury to boost/add their allocations during the Medium Term Expenditure Framework presentations/exercise to the Public which usually occur early in the year (February). What is yet to be done is to convince our policy (decision) makers that as they launch the SPs of their dockets see for example <a href="http://www.tradeandindustry.go.ke/speech.asp?ID=87">http://www.tradeandindustry.go.ke/speech.asp?ID=87</a> it is important that consultations with the aim of building synergies happen more as opposed the current state. </div>
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<div>It is worthy noting, despite the above, that GoK is determined to deepen our reform efforts in order to achieve our Vision 2030 objectives, and we feel confident that we wil be one of the top reformers again even in Doing Business 2010 see pdf download from <a href="http://www.treasury.go.ke/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=86&Itemid=54">http://www.treasury.go.ke/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=86&Itemid=54</a><font face="ArialNarrow" size="5"><font face="ArialNarrow" size="5"></font></font></div>
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<div>To be blunt to local BPOs, it would pay to merge many of them since the majority in Kenya are of less than 200 seat capacity. Even for the hand full with over 200 seat capacity the stark reality is that whatever charge they may offer to potential clients, especially Kenyan based, almost always is above what the potential clients may incur by setting in-house call centre e.g. KPLC and now the mobile operators may bear this out. In Nigeria the government literally forced banks to merge using legislation that favoured large banks, and considering the free spirit of Kenyans it may be interesting if GoK may even dare suggest the merge and they do so without riot police being called in aka hawkers and city askaris replays!</div>
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<div>Have a great day.</div>
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<div>David<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Walubengo J <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com">jwalu@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br><br>Dear Listers,<br><br>I am encouraged by the flood of ideas that kicked in after Bill and Dr. Ndemo's interventions. Ofcourse Kenduiywo, Bakuli and Peres your discourse is as insightful as that of MM and Barrack. Lets keep the ideas flowing on previous themes even as we move onto today's theme - just ensure you pick against the corresponding subject line and post.<br>
<br>I wish to open today's theme on Institutional Frameworks. The Researchers found that in S.Africa, Mauritius, and India, the Private Sector BPO lobby groups, Data Security Groups and Government Agencies were working harmoniously with clear, non-overlapping mandates to support the BPO sector. In Kenya it was found that several bodies were involved in the BPO Sector. These were largely Government agencies such as the Min of Education (Technology Parks), Kenya ICT Board, KenInvest, Export Promotion Council, CCK amongst others. The biggest challenge in Kenya was that there seemed to be no overall, cordinating body overseeing these functions - leading to alot of duplicated and un-cordinated effort from the various Players. And so our next Qtn is:<br>
<br>Qtn 5: What needs to be done to improve/strengthen the institutional framework in order for the BPO and outsourcing sector to play its planned role in the Kenyan economy?<br><br>We have today on this since tmrw we shall move into the Government Subsidiy/Incentive Issues for the BPO Sector.<br>
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