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The Kenya ICT Board
The State of the industry
KIF – Kenya ICT Board Luncheon PresentationPaul Kukubo, [email protected]
The Kenya ICT Board
THE BOARDAbout the Kenya ICT Board
The Kenya ICT Board
Establishment
• Established as a State Corporation under the State Corporations Act 446
• Kenya ICT Board is a State Corporation within the Ministry of Information and Communications.
• The overall purpose of the board is advice the Government of Kenya on ICT development and promotion.
The Kenya ICT Board
The Board of Directors
• Ms. Catherine Ngahu, Chairman• Mr. Paul Kukubo, CEO• Dr. Catherine Nyaki-Adeya• Mr. Peter Kimacia• Mr. Richard Bell• Mr. Kevit Desai• Dr. Bitange Ndemo, PS. Information &
Communications• Mr. Joseph Kinyua, PS. Treasury
The Kenya ICT Board
Our vision
Develop Kenya to a top ten global ICT business hub and a transformed information empowered society.
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Kenya ICT Board Mission
To rapidly and innovatively transform Kenya through the promotion of awareness and adoption of ICT for socio-economic enrichment of our society
The Kenya ICT Board
Mandate of the board
The Kenya ICT Board
Functions
• To advice the government on all relevant matters pertaining to development, coordination and promotion of ICT industries in the country.
• Promote both locally and internationally the opportunities for investments in ICT technology
• Facilitate and manage ICT industrial incubation parks and technology parks together with associated facilities on sites, estates and land.
The Kenya ICT Board
Functions (cont)
• Partner with agents within and without the country to carry out such functions as it may consider necessary.
• To transform and empower society through deployment and use of ICTs
• Carry out any other activity to promote and develop ICT products and services
The Kenya ICT Board
Points of focus
• Marketing Kenya as an ICT investment destination
– Value proposition in place to enumerate Kenya’s Positioning, Potential and Competitiveness
• Targeted awareness initiatives (advertising etc)• Incentive development for capacity building
• Business processes and Project Management– Development of standards and guidelines for public
projects implementation – Staff development in business processes and project
management expertise
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Points of Focus
• Development of Anchor Projects
– Working with implementing agencies to avail e-services, develop local content and increase connectivity uptake and access
• ICT incubation parks development
– Business case for an ICT & Technology park in progress, potential investors have expressed interest and discussions are ongoing.
The Kenya ICT Board
Points of focus
• ICT industry information gathering and dissemination
– Regular baseline research studies and surveys– Build and roll out repository of ICT information for
public consumption
• Local content development
– Spur the development of local content through capacity building and grants
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Kenya ICT Board Public Panels
Public Panels
Egovernment
Communities
Infrastructure
Content Outsourcing
Records management
Tax management
Information Distribution
Digital Villages Rural Outreach
Local PC assembly
National Data Centre
Government Data Management
Government Networks/VOIP
Bandwidth Distribution and Subsidy
Fibre Project
Local Content Development
Rural Involvement
Software
BPO Park
Kenya Marketing
Call Centre development
Public Panels
Cross Cutting Issues
Purpose of the Public Panels
• To provide a forum for industry participation in developing the country’s ICT agenda
• Project Pa
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Developing our the Board’s Metrics
• This forums is asked to respond to the development of the ICT Board’s metric’s as part of the launch of these Public Panels
How will the public panels work?
• Kenya ICT Board will co-convene the panel with the lead body, e.g. KIF
• Panel agenda will be agreed jointly between the Board and the lead body
• ICT Board will provide a secretary to every Panels who will collate and document the workings of respective panel
• ICT convene an annual workshop where all panel conclusions will be presented
• ICT Panel outputs will be informed by the strategic objective and may include: legal recommendations, policy recommendations, whitepapers
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Extracts from our Strategic Plan
The Yearly Targets
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External Investment facilitation Metrics
Social Impact Metrics
Local Capacity development
ICT Business Entrepreneur Training
1,500
3,000
4,500
6,000
7,500
ICT Business Entrepreneurs
50 100 150 200 300
Content Entrepreneurs 50 100 150 200 300
Information Centers 50 100 150 200 300
Top tier Consultants/professionals enlisted
and developed
200 400 600 800 1000
Government Impact Metrics
A global Perspective
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Playing Kenya ICT Board in the global context
• The fastest growth in the next few years will come from emerging markets, the group of countries that IDC calls BRIC+9 – Brazil, Russia, India, China – followed by Mexico, Poland, Turkey, Argentina,
Columbia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, UAE, and Vietnam
• We need to get Kenya on this reference
• Much of the work of building Kenya’s ICT industry will be about– Developing our local capacity– Marketing the country as an ICT investment destination
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Top 10 Global Outsourcing predictions
• US Dollar will continue to fall globally– Kenya’s ability to attract outsourcing dollars long term will
be influenced by among many factors our labour competitiveness in dollar terms
• Consolidation Ahead – Big and medium sized players will be shopping for smaller
and more strategic players to buy• Caution
– It is expected that large US companies will avoid announcing substantial agreements or employee reductions during 2008 due to the US elections, although outsourcing is not a major elections subject
• Beyond India– As the Indian market continues to be impacted by wage
inflation, talent attrition and infrastructure strains, clients are looking outside the subcontinent for alternatives, say experts
• Flight from the Big Cities– In India and beyond, outsourcing hot spots have become
oversaturated, so many providers and customers are looking to set up shop elsewhere.
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Top 10 Global Outsourcing predictions (cont..)
• Transformation– Beyond cost cutting and efficiencies. Outsourcers
globally are going to pitch themselves as partners in business transformation.
• Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) Grows Up– managing servers, databases, networks and security,
and applications from offsite. This represents an important opportunity once the fiber is in place. Kenya needs to skill up to take consider playing here. Also an opportunity for local outsourcing here
• Change in Call Centre Management– Clients have become dissatisfied with the sweatshop
mentality that leads to turnover levels from 60 to 150 percent a year, source( neoIT.). They need worker stability
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Transparency and Communications Infrastructure Project (TCIP)
A Government of Kenya projectwith the support of the World Bank
TCIP FocusFocus is to accelerate activities related to:
1. Connectivity: BPO, universities, Connecting Govt, Digital Village Initiative, SMS service initiatives, Government Information Portal
2. eGovernment: Land Title, High Court Registrar, Drivers’ Licence, Wealth Declaration Forms analysis, Company Registry, Pension Administration Phase II, initial support to IPRS / eProcurement at Supply Branch
3. Related activities labeled “Enabling environment”
TCIPOverarching Objectives
Connectivity Development Objective -projects
TransparencyDevelopment Objective -projects
KENETImplementing Agent
E-gov DirectorateImplementing Agent
E-gov DirectorateImplementing Agent
Judiciary-High Court registry records
Ministry of Lands-land titles digitization
Universities & Colleges connectivity
NOC
Buildings cabling
govt connectivity
Department of Transport-drivers licence
Public Procurement/-supplies branch
Ministry of Justice-Wealth Declaration Forms
State Law-Company registry
Ministry of Finance-Pensions admin
TCIP Objectives
National NOC
Common Services IP Platform
Capacity Development
TCIPOverarching Objectives
Connectivity Development Objective -projects
TransparencyDevelopment Objective -projects
ICT BoardImplementing Agent
Digital Villages Program
BPO Sector Support
TCIP Objectives..
ICT BoardImplementing Agent
Content DevInitiatives
The Digital Villages Project Activities
BPO Support Operational Mechanics
Members Selection Members
Approval
Contract Gross invoicing Reports
Credit bandwidth, net invoicing
Payment
Periodic reports/audit Net invoice payment
World Bank
Ministry of F & C
ICT Board
ApprovedVendors QOCs
Project Components
Procurement & Communication Plans1. The board’s Communication Strategy is “Continuous flow of
information to and from the Public”
2. General Procurement Notice already published –in http://www.ict.go.ke, http://www.dgmarket.com
3. Current Procurement Plan will be published –in the same sites. Updates and revisions will be published accordingly.
4. Specific Procurement Notices for all the project activities will be published in the local dailies as well as online. A mailing list to alert all interested companies/individuals is being setup.
Thank you.www.ict.go.ke