People should realize that Kenya has allot to offer just as Google have discovered. Talk of not finding enough competent IT people in Kenya is just crap. The Kenyan universities churn out hundreds of IT graduates each year, google coming in will go along way to creating employment for these youngsters. With the fiber optic cable due soon it will link Kenya and the rest of East and Central Africa with fast and reliable and cheap internet access. The Kenyan Government had to pull out of the first cable plan that the South African government wanted to regulate ( a major drawback) to most corporate clients like Google.
The Kenyan economy has grown by over 6% this year and is expected to keep growing due to the stability that the current Government has provided to the country, so all this talk of ethic chaos and violence is just a storm in a tea cup. How many African economies do you know that are thriving so much that a company (safaricom) can make 17 billion Kenya shillings ( 250 million USD) as profit before TAX? Kenyan companies (Safricom, Kenya Commercial Bank etc ) have beaten their South African competitors hands down in recent awards due to their performance. The Kenyan Stock Exchange has grown tremendously the past years and is second only to the South African counterpart in Africa.
The reasons why Kenya is a great choice are so many, besides am writing this from my desk in Kenya, Mombasa where am designing software for use by European companies.:-)
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People should realize that Kenya has allot to offer just as Google have discovered. Talk of not finding enough competent IT people in Kenya is just crap. The Kenyan universities churn out hundreds of IT graduates each year, google coming in will go along way to creating employment for these youngsters. With the fiber optic cable due soon it will link Kenya and the rest of East and Central Africa with fast and reliable and cheap internet access. The Kenyan Government had to pull out of the first cable plan that the South African government wanted to regulate ( a major drawback) to most corporate clients like Google. The Kenyan economy has grown by over 6% this year and is expected to keep growing due to the stability that the current Government has provided to the country, so all this talk of ethic chaos and violence is just a storm in a tea cup. How many African economies do you know that are thriving so much that a company (safaricom) can make 17 billion Kenya shillings ( 250 million USD) as profit before TAX? Kenyan companies (Safricom, Kenya Commercial Bank etc ) have beaten their South African competitors hands down in recent awards due to their performance. The Kenyan Stock Exchange has grown tremendously the past years and is second only to the South African counterpart in Africa. The reasons why Kenya is a great choice are so many, besides am writing this from my desk in Kenya, Mombasa where am designing software for use by European companies. :-)