<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dr. Ndemo,</div><div><br></div><div>Please allow me to differ with you on the subject of ownership. I have being spending abit of my time through my private research firm to relate ICT to outcomes. <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
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World Bank report has analyzed the impact of broadband on growth in 120
countries from 1980 to 2006, showing that each 10 percentage points of
broadband penetration results in 1.21% increase in per capita Gross Domestic
Product (GDP) growth in developed countries, and 1.38% increase in developing
countries.</span></div><!--StartFragment--><div><div><br></div><div>Ghana's GDP was $74MUSD in 2008 which represented a 7.8% growth, alot of African countries had considerable GDP growth including Kenya but we have experienced decline in incomes, employment, health etc, why? The reason between 35 and 60% of African economies are owned by foreigners which means that 35 to 60% of the GDP growth leaves the country. Back in the day the economist used Gross National Product (GNP) were they argued that you need to deduct the foreign participation from the GDP to know the real impact on the local economy. </div><div><br></div><div>To your point, my submission is that we neeed to have some considerable and in my view "majority" level of local ownership of the productive sectors of our economy in order for GDP to make sense, otherwise we need to find ways of dealing with "capital flight" otherwise we would create jobs etc but the return effect would be minimal. In the same way we want to create jobs etc, we need to also seek simultaneously to own the ventures that create the jobs.</div><div><br></div><div>Eric here</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On 4 Jun 2009, at 09:15, <a href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Prof. You raise good questions. In my my view, the question on foreign<br>ownership should not arise now when we have thousands of our youth<br>jobless. Most of those who would work in foreign owned enterprises are our<br>future entrepreneurs. They will have the opportunity to learn through the<br>ropes before embarking on an expensive venture.<br><br>We are focusing the resources into infrastructure now but in the next few<br>months, we begin to address capacity development. This has been on our<br>rader as we developed the Multimedia University. We did not have funding<br>to push the two development aspects concurently. I am open for<br>suggestions.<br><br>The SEZ policy is ready at Trade Ministry. The Law to establsh the<br>incentives is underway but nevertheless we shall leverage on the current<br>EPZ Law.<br><br><br>Regards<br><br><br>Ndemo.<br><br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">Dear Dr. Ndemo,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Attached is material to guide theme 2 of e-discussion on BPOs. Any<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">comments so far? Best wishes.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Tim Waema<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 08:28 +0300, Prof. Waema wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Dear Dr. Ndemo,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I hope this finds you in a good state of health.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Attached is the first theme of the BPO e-discussions over KICTANET<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">FYINA. We have 5 themes which will be discussed over a two week period,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">starting Tue June 2nd.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Please note that we have changed the day of the stakeholders' workshop<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">to Wednesday July 1st. You had agreed to be the guest of honour with the<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">earlier date. Please confirm that you can still be the guest of honour<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">to open the workshop on this new date.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Best wishes.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">tim waema<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">----------------------------------------------<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">This message has been scanned for viruses and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">dangerous content by Jambo MailScanner, and is<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">believed to be clean.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">---------------------------------------------<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">"easy access to the world"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Delete & Prev | Delete & Next<br>Move to: INBOX Drafts Sent Trash mail.Drafts mail.INBOX_Junk mail.Junk<br>mail.Old_Mail mail.Sent mail.Trash<br><br><br><br>---------------------------------------------- <br>This message has been scanned for viruses and<br>dangerous content by Jambo MailScanner, and is<br>believed to be clean.<br>---------------------------------------------<br>"easy access to the world" <br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kictanet mailing list<br><a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br>http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet<br><br>This message was sent to: emko@internetresearch.com.gh<br>Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/emko%40internetresearch.com.gh<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Eric M.K Osiakwan</div><div>Director </div><div>Internet Research</div><div><a href="http://www.internetresearch.com.gh">www.internetresearch.com.gh</a></div><div><a href="mailto:emko@internetresearch.com.gh">emko@internetresearch.com.gh</a></div><div>42 Ring Road Central, Accra-North</div><div>Tel: +233.21.258800 ext 7031</div><div>Fax: +233.21.258811</div><div>Cell: +233.24.4386792</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span> </div><br></body></html>