On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Gakuru Alex<alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:54 PM, ndungu stephen<ndungustephen@gmail.com> wrote:
-There was a promise by Alex Gakuru/ICT board for support of IT community through a 3 stage funding by the World Bank
1) training for a 1000 software managers - to be determined by a criteria
For clarity's sakes, the story from the ICT Board was published on Business Daily, "To address the problem the government is proposing to facilitate the setting up of a Centre of Excellence for BPO training. In addition it is keen to support the local IT/BPO industry by improving its access to high quality IT skills. It is proposed to tap a Sh240 million from the Kenya Transparency & Communications Infrastructure Project for taking up the development of internationally bench-marked IT skills. The government has plans to use part of these funds to improve on the expertise of developers" ... <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Company%20Industry/-/539550/641402/-/item/1/-/cyg43q/-/index.html> Today they've published a very informative in-depth "Techies join forces to combat pirated software" -- unfortunately not available online.