<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:14pt">Hi All,<br><br>I read that report and it is disappointing that we can actually celebrate such a blatant misuse of resources.<br><br>Regards<br><div> </div><div>Robert Yawe<br>KAY System Technologies Ltd<br>Phoenix House, 6th Floor<br>P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200<br>Kenya</div><div><br><br></div><div>Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696</div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, 22 November 2013, 18:29, Bitange Ndemo <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div
class="y_msg_container">Esther,<br clear="none">In my view we now need to put a strategy in place on what to do with these<br clear="none">numbers. It is dangerous when you are ahead of the pack.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Ndemo.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> In today’s news,<br clear="none">><br clear="none">>>Senegal and Kenya lead in internet contribution to GDP in Africa.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> A report by McKinsey & Company has highlighted Senegal and Kenya as having<br clear="none">> the highest iGDPs (which measures the Internet’s contribution to overall<br clear="none">> GDP) in Africa. While the two were not the continent’s largest<br clear="none">> economies, the achievement was reached through governments in both<br clear="none">> countries having made concerted efforts to stimulate Internet demand.<br clear="none">>
Africa’s iGDP remains low, at 1.1%-just over half the levels seen in<br clear="none">> other emerging economies and less than a third for developed countries.<br clear="none">> Senegal has a contribution of 3.3%, Kenya 2.9%, Morocco 2.3%, Mozambique<br clear="none">> 1.6% and South Africa 1.4%. Senegal ranks higher than Germany, India and<br clear="none">> France while Kenya ranks higher than Canada and China. The average for<br clear="none">> emerging markets is 1.9% while that of developed economies is 3.7%.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> The report expects internet’s greatest impact in Africa to be<br clear="none">> concentrated in six sectors: financial services, education, health,<br clear="none">> retail, agriculture, and government. It suggests that technology-related<br clear="none">> productivity gains in these sectors could reach USD 148-318bn by 2025,<br clear="none">> with large populations
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