Why Kenya
Further to being a beautiful country with a hard working peace loving citizenry, Kenya has the following other points that make it an attractive destination for your outsourcing projects.
Political Stability: Attested to by high business confidence.
Convenient time zone (GMT +3): Send us work when you go to sleep, and find it complete under high quality when you wake up – and still save costs.
High Speed Internet Connection: Satellite link to the world, Fibre Optic network within the city. Expect to connect to the International fiber optic cable by latest early 2008.
Abundant work force: Population 30 million
Fluent in English: English is the national language of instruction. Newspapers, tests, education (from elementary level), official communication, television news e.t.c are all in English.
Highly computer literate: There is an ICT strategy for education (http://ict.aed.org/kenya/ ). Colleges are now offering outsourcing courses.
Up to 60% lower professional fees than in Europe and North America .
Good government support for outsourcing industry.
High Literacy Levels:
> 85.1% for ages 15>
> Primary school enrolment is 7,400,000.
> High School Enrolment is 920,000.
> University enrolment is 95,000.
> 11 universities.
> Over 10,000 university graduates every year
> Over 50,000 college graduates every year
Kenya is High Tech:
> Fixed Lines: 270,000
> Mobile phone lines: 4,300,000
> Internet Users: 1,500,000
> Over 50 ISP's
> Low cost of internet
> High internet connection rate