That's all great and I believe this is usually presented to the Finance minister (or respective government bodies) a few months before budget is read out. I watched the chairman (I think) of BIDCO talking about the process in an interview in TV. My conclusions are that it can be done if whoever is making the proposals understands the effects the propasals will have on the country and can convince the gvmnt bodies. I think such ideas are to be forwarded by a recognized body of people/professionals in the industry. I've 'ranted' atleast twice about skunkworks members having such a body. Skunkworks coz I dont think there is a better grouping of techies in this country (and region). 8~)   --- On Wed, 6/24/09, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote: From: aki <aki275@googlemail.com> Subject: [Skunkworks] An audit of tech related initiatives in kenya To: "Skunkworks forum" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 11:08 AM Time to put our tech sector progress on paper and see where we have reached and where we are heading.   1) my initiative is to call on govt to remove all taxes in ICT sector for a 15 year period ( to fast pace time lost ). For internet services and internet access, VAT should be scrapped to lower costs to end users and to create cheaper access to services. For areas that do not have infrastructure or have poor facilities, the govt should allow tax breaks to businesses who are willing to setup there. CCK should also have a licensing scheme to aid community and closed networks achieve infrastucture with minimum expense. Products that assist develop such networks should be exempt from all taxes.   my take, corrections welcome. Please add your contribution too and lets see if we can passionately get this going with the help of everyone.   Rgds. -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Skunkworks announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science - http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi - http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general