Eddie Ssejjoba
8 July 2009
Kampala — THE Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) has been identified as one of the avenues that will help create jobs especially for the youths who fail to find employment in the informal sector.
Government treats BPO a modern cost effective way of operating in most companies and institutions that should be fully utilised.
The assistant director in the ministry of Information and Computer Technology, Dr. David Turai said government had put in place strategies to promote BPO as one of the remedies to the increasing levels of unemployment for the youths who drop out of school.
He was recently speaking at a two-day conference and exhibition at the Imperial Royale Hotel in Kampala. The conference attracted local and international participants plus panelists from several countries including South Africa, Mauritius, Ghana, India, Rwanda , US and others that discussed ways of fully promoting BPO as an easy way of conducting business at a global scale.
"Government has come out with a national strategy on BPO that targets the business community and other players in the Information Technology that will help business roll out and see jobs created," he said.
He said once the strategies are achieved, the country would realise economic development and help in the eradication of poverty. He urged Uganda's business people to borrow experience from countries where BPO has been fully utilised and developed.
The South African BPO director, Pumela Solela encouraged more business people from the informal sector to make use of the avenues put across to conduct business using BPO avenues.
The ICT minister, Aggrey Awori who opened the conference said that government had committed funds to extend Internet coverage in the entire country as a way of promoting the BPO operations.
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