<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some of the areas to look into:-</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">a) Capacity building for entrepreneurs</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">b) A regulatory environment that is super conducive to the ecosystem while protecting the public good.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">c) Access to markets outside the country</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">d) Access to cheap capital.</span></div></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Regards </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">+254 0713 601113 / 0770906375</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div>"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi</div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 27 Jun 2016, at 9:43 PM, Wangari Kabiru via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span></span><br><span>Blessed Monday!</span><br><span></span><br><span>Comments to today's deliberations;</span><br><span></span><br><span>* eCommerce</span><br><span>- Growth highly tied to financial services as it is about exchange of value; innovation, convenience, security</span><br><span></span><br><span>* National Addressing System</span><br><span>- 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. </span><br><span>- 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.</span><br><span>- Academia front; what courses are ongoing or to be created to support this</span><br><span>- 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</span><br><span></span><br><span>* Local eBusiness </span><br><span>* BPOs</span><br><span>* Investment incentives (Equity Shares)</span><br><span>- 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.</span><br><span>- Create a shift from consumer to mass creator</span><br><span>- Academia would be a great partner to drive this </span><br><span></span><br><span>* ICTs in SME, (Small Medium Size Enterprises)</span><br><span>- Firstly SME in Kenya is probably your jua kali outfit </span><br><span>- Anything beyond that is high chances not owned locally or majority of the ownership </span><br><span>- Taking cognisance of this, the policy must speak into the small nature of the Kenyan SME and not camouflage the needs</span><br><span>- Back again to the need to engage closely with the Ministry of Industrialisation</span><br><span></span><br><span>*ICT regional export incentives</span><br><span>- The incentives need to be beyond the East Africa Community</span><br><span>- i.e make the market BIG which is attractive for trade</span><br><span></span><br><span>* Local Device Manufacturing</span><br><span>- Sincerely this is the turning key for our nation in ICT</span><br><span>- Whether Kenya is an attractive manufacturing point or not</span><br><span>- This impacts on the import policies</span><br><span>- Relook, reevaluate, withdraw trade agreements and relations that do not allow the true development of ICT manufacturing</span><br><span>- Back to interministerial relations on policy matters</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Blessed day!</span><br><span></span><br><span>Regards/WangariOn Jun 27, 2016 07:42, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Listers, </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>As was the case last week, feel free to contribute on previous </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>threads as long as you pick the corresponding title. Also remember, </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>if you wish to directly edit the Draft ICT policy, visit Jadili </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>platform (<a href="http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/kenya-ict-policy">http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/kenya-ict-policy</a>), </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>register and post. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>So onto todays theme: </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>* eCommerce, National Addressing System </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>* Local eBusiness, </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>* BPOs </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>* Investment incentives (Equity Shares) </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>* ICTs in SME, (Small Medium Size Enterprises) </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>* ICT regional export incentives </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>* Local Device Manufacturing </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>The Background: </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Building new ICT enterprises while integrating ICTs in existing </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>enterprises, particularly the SMEs will accelerate the overall </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>productivity of our economy while increasing the percentage </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Contribution of ICT to the national GDP. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Previous attempts to play in the BPO sector have been made but this </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>has not yet played out successfully. Additionally very few indigenous </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>ICT firms exist, let alone venture out to the regional markets. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Attempts to have a vibrant local assembly/manufacturing of consumer </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>goods or devices (phones, tablets, laptops) seem also seems stunted. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>What policies, strategies should we propose? We would like to hear </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>your views over the next 12hrs. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thank you </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>-- </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Barrack O. Otieno </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>+254721325277 </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>+254733206359 </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Skype: barrack.otieno </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>PGP ID: 0x2611D86A </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________ </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>kictanet mailing list </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet</a> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Unsubscribe or change your options at <a href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/wangarikabiru%40yahoo.co.uk">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/wangarikabiru%40yahoo.co.uk</a> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. 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