Digital Kenya by Bitange Ndemo & Tim Weiss

Author:Bitange Ndemo & Tim Weiss
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

Conclusion

This chapter has offered a holistic perspective on the barriers to and enablers of the maturation of Kenya’s early ICT ecosystem across the dimensions of culture, human capital, entrepreneurship support systems, finance, policy, and markets. Enriching these empirical insights with relevant theory on how ecosystems emerge and develop, I have proposed a model that explains how ICT ecosystems can emerge in resource-scarce contexts despite the absence of important preconditions. The model shows how enabling processes can be drawn on to substitute and establish the condition factors. The recommendations developed below are addressed to governments, development stakeholders, and practitioners in resource-scarce countries that seek to move their young ICT ecosystem toward maturity.1. Get the foundations right—ICT infrastructure, mobile payment, telecommunications market, and entrepreneurial support infrastructure

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