KICTB Strategy

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Kenya ICT Board

• Paul Kukubo,
• CEO. Kenya Information and Communication
  Technology Board
• pkukubo_at_ict.go.ke
• www.ict.go.ke

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Our vision

• Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub
• This vision is set against the Kenya Vision 2030
  plan for wealth and employment creation to make
  Kenya a middle class, highly competitive nation
  by the year 2030.

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Our Mission

• To rapidly and innovatively transform Kenya
  through the promotion of ICT for socio-economic
  enrichment of our society

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Mandate of the ICT board
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Quantifying the Digital Divide
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Strategic Objectives
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Projects that translate our services
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Pasha Centres The Concept
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Europeana.eu

• Europeana the European digital library, museum
  and archive is a 2-year project that began in
  July 2007.
• It will produce a prototype website giving users
  direct access to some 2 million digital objects,
  including film material, photos, paintings,
  sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and
  archival papers.
• The prototype will be launched in November 2008
  by Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for
  Information Society and Media.
• The intention is that by 2010 the Europeana
  portal will give everybody direct access to well
  over 6 million digital sounds, pictures, books,
  archival records and films.

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New Zealand Digital Strategy
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Digital content exceeds total storage capacity

• IDC uses a complex formula to estimate the size
  of the "digital universe," the total volume of
  digital information that is created and
  replicated globally.
• 281 billion gigabytes (281 Exabyte) in 2007,
  equal to 45GB of digital information for each
  person on earth.
• For the first time ever, the total volume of
  digital content exceeds total storage capacity.
• IDC speculates that, by 2011, only half of the
  digital universe will be stored.

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• 4 billion digital cameras and camera phones
• The volume of information about us generated
  automatically on a daily basis surpasses the
  total volume of digital information that we
  actively create about ourselves.

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Global online games market

• The global online games market is already worth
  4 billion and is expected to triple in the next
  five years according to the latest Strategy
  Analytics outlook for the global online games
  market.

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Global content Market

• The global digital content market for advertising
  and paid content will be 138 billion by 2011.
• global mobile digital content market 31BN
• online digital content market at 25BN.

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What the ICT Board is doing for Local Content
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2 components of the Tandaa Fund

• USD 2.5 Million grant facility to generate
  content for the development of information
  services and web content specifically for
  innovative new content and urban and rural
  community based content
• USD 1.5 M for private sector applications

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The Content Grant. The Tandaa Grant

• 1.5 M USD development, roll out and scale-up of
  private sector applications.
• The development, roll out and scale-up of private
  sector applications will be financed under TCIP
  through a US1.5 million grants facility.
• The grant applications will be invited via
  advertisements two times per year over a four
  year period.

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Management of the Tandaa Grant

• A panel of experts, headed by Prof Thairu will
  be appointed by the ICT board (with rotating
  membership with a one year maximum term) will
  select to successful grant application based on
  the review of the independent consultants
  analysis and recommendations .
• Review of proposals will be carried out by an
  independent consultant appointed by the board

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Tandaa Grant

• Targeting the development of 15 new applications.
  
• The grant will cover the expenses for service and
  content development (including consultations,
  website development, procurement of software and
  hardware), licensing fees, advocacy and awareness
  building campaigns (including newspapers, radio
  and community sensitization tours).
• A certain proportion of the annual revenues
  generated by the service for the first 2 years
  must be reinvested in further awareness building
  and advocacy initiatives.

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