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Title: | ICT application in the informal sector: the case of the Kariokor Market MSE cluster in Nairobi |
Authors: | Opiyo, Romanus O. K'Akumu, Owiti A. |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | Urban Forum |
Volume: | 17 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 241-261 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | information technology telecommunications small enterprises informal sector |
External link: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12132-006-0011-x |
Abstract: | The informal sector is poorly served in terms of information and communication technologies (ICT) provision and this has contributed to its sluggish development. This study not only examines how micro and small enterprises (MSEs) are poorly provided with ICT, but also looks at how the available ICT facilities are located vis-à-vis other MSE activities within the Kariokor Market cluster in Nairobi, Kenya. Furthermore, the study attempts to find out how ICT are utilized by MSE in mitigating the problems of lack of information and marketing problems, in order to gauge their potentiality as business development tools. The study also identifies the ICT planning challenges and ICT requirements in the Kariokor informal sector cluster, suggests an appropriate mix of ICT needed by the MSE sector and seeks ways of designing an MSE cluster with adequate ICT which can be used as an ideal spatial and locational strategy for ICT within the informal sector cluster. It is argued that 'clustering' enterprises according to subsector activities can be recommended as a viable strategy for providing physical infrastructure more cheaply, since it would entail providing services to a single homogeneous group, rather than to dispersed enterprises. Bibliogr. [ASC Leiden abstract] |