Interesting Internet Market study from the Communications Commission of Kenya. The quote above comes from the section listing key factors in growth of Internet services. The example they give is when the Ministry of Education released the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education results via the web in March 2007 the Internet traffic increased drastically as shown in below.
The full report is here
The importance of promoting local content is recognised by Kenyan Ministry of Information and Communication. Cleopa Timon Otieno is the Director of RuralNet Communications, a youth owned social enterprise that operates in West Kenya. He has been talking to the Permanent Secretary about setting up a web service that will provide information about Kenya's towns and villages.
The Ministry of Information and Communication has been the force behind the advancement of ICT infrastructure in Kenya, the undersea fibre optic cable is already in the country thanks to the Private Public Partnership witnessed by the telecommunication companies. Due to lack of local content, TVs, Radio, Goverment, Private sector institutions among others are embarking on a consorted effort to develop content. The Permanent Secretary has been very keen on this and is doing all he can to encourage kenyans to develop local content.
22 07 2009 jamesnguoYesterday, i attended the exhibition by the Communications Commission of Kenya to mark their ten years, I was impressed by the many ICT-based companies that were exhibiting and many of them have a focus on local content delivery either through the mobile phone or the digital TV.
I also caught the wind that SEACOM cable will be launched soon! This will drive quite some content around the TV stations given that prices of satellite TV subscriptions have started to fall
