Friday, July 6, 2012

ICT IN KENYA........

Most of us jst hear the word ict evryday but dnt knw exactly wat ict stand for..relax, atlst i will tell u that for free i for information c for communication and t for technology.....now u know.i would like to discuss with u sthng i knw abot ict in our country .first we should appreciate the efforts of our PS Bitange Ndemo for moving very fast on matters IT.Opening an IT firm in kenya s nt lyk a bed of roses it has been a business for serious people nt evry tom could do it first was an issue of human resource mgmnt meaning you couldnt find enough resources to establish a firm here if you gat the money anada issue was da personell,if you can find techies to get u going the difficult part was understandin dem and mekin dem meet customers expection. i mean IT wasnt  4 mekin money dat s y until today there s no a single IT firm in the capital markets and stock exchange,another hard bit was the cost of setting up a firm in kenya.the gov't didnt offer tax incentives for tech co.but that didnt diter co. frm establishing here some of the few co. that are doing gud include; craft silicon,seven seas technology,cellulant, virtual city,soliton telmac,linksoft group and many others headed by young men, many of whom r kenyans including mike macharia ceo of seven seas they did a contract for bank of abyssania for usd 700000 and usd 5.6 m for zambia electricity co. and ken njoroge ceo cellulant did a usd 8.9m for naija gov't and kamal budhabhati ceo of craft silicon did a usd 1000000 and last but nt the least anthony wahome of linksoft who bought hillcrest international school and john waibochi of virtual city group currently seekin 5m investments. and many more...i jst wanna see how far ICT will go bt beliv me you wit this pace we r goin very fast b4 u even catch up wit 2day here in kenya it s the next day..so if u aint into ICT  plz do something abot it and you shld do it very fast.....waz ua opinion tho'?....

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