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dc.contributor.authorMann, Laura
dc.contributor.authorGraham, Mark
dc.contributor.authorFriederici, Nicolas
dc.coverage.spatialKenya
dc.coverage.spatialRwanda
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-24T12:55:08Z
dc.date.available2017-03-24T12:55:08Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationMann, L., Graham, M. and Friederici, N. (2015) The Internet and Business Process Outsourcing in East Africa: Execitive Summary, Oxford: Oxford Internet Institute.
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/12888
dc.description.abstractInternet connectivity is widely considered to be a game changer for knowledge economies of developing countries. The arrival of submarine fibre-optic underwater cables in East Africa in 2009 and 2010 is seen by many as a strong case in point. The fast evolution of the information and communication technology (ICT) landscape of Kenya and Rwanda that ensued has attracted the attention of actors from private investors, development agencies, NGOs, policymakers and many other groups. Kenya became a role model for its wide-spread adoption of mobile money services and a burgeoning ICT application development sector; Rwanda’s government became known for its explicitly ICT-oriented development agenda as well as large-scale ICT projects in government, health and education that aimed to latch onto fast-growing mobile subscription rates and 3G network roll-outs. For this report, we set out to examine the role that changing connectivity has played for a particular component of the ICT sector in Kenya and Rwanda: ICT-enabled business process outsourcing (BPO). BPO has been a priority in the national ICT strategies of both countries, so we anticipated this sector to provide a fertile ground for comparing expectations and realities of the role that changing connectivity has played following the deployment of fibre-optic cable infrastructure.
dc.language.isoen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectEconomic Development
dc.subjectRural Development
dc.subjectIndustrial Development
dc.subjectImpact Innovation
dc.subjectScience and Society
dc.titleThe internet and business process outsourcing in East Africa: value chains and networks of connectivity-based enterprises in Kenya and Rwanda: Executive Summary
dc.typeOther
dc.identifier.externalurihttp://cii.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/0
dc.identifier.externalurihttps://doi.org/10.35648/20.500.12413/11781/ii246
dc.identifier.agRES-167-25-0701, ES/I033777/1
dc.identifier.agEPD/645
dc.identifier.doi10.35648/20.500.12413/11781/ii246


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