Listers Kenya ICT Board on wednesday released the findings of the National ICT Survey Julisha. Results can be found here. http://www.ict.go.ke/index.php/julisha/402-mae-national-research-study-dubbe.... The research commissioned by the Kenya ICT Board's monitoring and evaluation team, was a combination of field work and reviews secondary research to establish critical baselines with respect to the ICT Sectotr in Kenya. Indeed this announcement of the proposed study was made is this mailing list a few months ago. Of particular interest to the Kenya ICT Board is that we now have a market size figure of the ICT sector. Kenya's ICT sector, excluding telco revenues, in 2010 sits at USD 740m with 78% hardware, 9% software and 12% services. Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18%. We estimate it to get to USD 1bn by 2013. The results also tracked skills requirements and indicated that Kenya would need another 10,000 odd IT professional in the next 3 years to meet sector needs. 23% of IT professionals are in IT help desk. The greatest skill shortages are in software development and IT project management. We have received many comments, requests and pointers for clarification through phone calls, email, Twitter, Linked in and Facebook already. We welcome comments on the Julisha Survey before we re publish a final report. Most decision makers in ICT will find this a true digest of information. Paul Kukubo CEO, Kenya ICT Board -- Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya 12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960 Fax: +254 20 2211962 website: www.ict.go.ke local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya twitter:@tandaaKENYA BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke personal contacts _______________ Cell: + 254 717 180001 skype: kukubopaul googletalk: pkukubo personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke personal twitter: @pkukubo ____________________ Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment