On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Mark Tinka <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Monday 31 May 2010 03:39:13 pm Mugarura Cavin wrote: > > > please note the header is ONT (on topic) > > i would like to know from LUG members, why they think > > Uganda is not a global player in the outsourcing > > industry, > > - Do we advertise ourselves as such a destination? > > No we do not. Before we do, I believe we need to have the systems in place for anyone to buy-in that Uganda is a destination for out-sourced work. > - Do we have the right infrastructure for this? > > I would say partly we do and partly we do not. Most of out-sourced work requires fast, available Internet connectivity. We currently have this in Uganda. The one huddle yet to be crossed is how to get this accessible to all the skill pools out there for what ever out-sourced service one may want to offer. > - Do we have the right organizations to run such an > implementation, private or otherwise? > > Certainly not. I had a chat with a friend (from Nairobi) recently and he pointed out a few things there are doing there to improve on the image of ICT in Kenya and expose the skill available in the country. We talked at length about so many programs running in Nairobi and other cities and towns. One that stood out for me was this: I-Hub<http://www.ihub.co.ke/about-the-ihub> The I-Hub has three ISP's generously donating 10Mbps each to the i-hub. This is one resource that one can tap into to out-source some task... Our LUG with its monthly meetings can morph into some sort of ICT out-sourcing team if we organise ourselves well enough and get something going. > - Is our labour-force inviting to this kind of work, > culturally or otherwise? > > this may be a debatable point. I would say yes and no. > - Is our labour-force trained for this kind of work? > > most of our ICT labour-force is "self-trained". Almost all the die-hard techies we have in Uganda started off by themselves and hustled all the way to where they are. A few may have benefited from some for of training later on. Our education system does not cultivate such a kind of labour-force. -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. ------------------------------------------------------------
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