Transforming East African ICT Sector by Creating a Business Engine for SMEs : SMEs and the East Africa ICT Sector
For the purposes of this project, the East African countries included in the study were Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. The focus for this project was Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) as for-profit or nonprofit organizations with less...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/921591468340808937/Transforming-East-African-ICT-sector-by-creating-a-business-engine-for-SMEs http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27360 |
| Summary: | For the purposes of this project, the
East African countries included in the study were Kenya,
Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. The focus for this project was
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) as for-profit or
nonprofit organizations with less than 50 employees and not
exceeding USD 1,000,000 in annual revenues/turnover. The
main output of this project was a proposed program of
interventions to drive transformational change. To succeed
in this ambitious endeavor, the project articulated clear
objectives and designed a blueprint for implementation
including levels of resourcing, budget and monitoring
metrics. Over the course of the project the team conducted
brief surveys with over 90 entrepreneurs, over 50 percent of
who had 3-10 years of experience in the Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) sector and primarily worked
at companies with 5 employees or less. |
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