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Kenya plans to create 30,000 outsourcing jobs in varsities
Kenya plans to position itself as one of the world's leading outsourcing hubs for companies in North America and Europe looking to cut costs in their business processes.
Information and Technology Permanent Secretary Bitange Ndemo in an interview revealed a strategy to set up outsourcing incubators at local universities that are hoped to create up to 30,000 jobs.
Dr Bitange, who was head-hunted from the University of Nairobi, said in the coming six months, the Government hopes to engage some 10,000 students in an incubator venture modelled on a successful one by universities in north west Britain, called CallNorthWest and hosted by University of Central Lancashire (UCLan).
The new enthusiasm to push the Kenyan economy to the digital age follows last Thursday's approval of the long-awaited Information and Communications Technology (ICT) policy by President Kibaki's new Cabinet, at its second sitting.
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The outsourcing strategy is part of a broader ICT development efforts that seek to make Kenya the regional hub by 2010 and increase the share of the It earnings to 10 per cent of the size of the Kenyan economy.
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