Hi, over the weekend Zulu, currehtly debated on i-network, landed 100Mb/s in the iHub for the http://www.barcampnairobi.com/ conference.
Whenever you are in Nairobi, visiting the iHub is definitly worth it. -- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 758 801 749 www.mountbatten.net On Monday 14 June 2010 14:12:41 Mike Barnard wrote: > 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. _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
