Hi Ish,
At 00:52 22-01-2017, Ish Sookun wrote:
>The CTO of the Ministry of TCI said 600 out of the 700 companies in
>ICT/BPO are start-ups. I suppose not all 600 companies are local
>companies but just a local branch outsourcing "business processes" here.
According to the BOI there are 420 local companies in the ICT/BPO industry.
>However, in the "ICT/BPO Industry Review 2016 Highlights" [1] published
>by the Ministry of Technology, Communication & Innovation it mentioned
>that 35% of the industry consists of start-ups and the number of
>companies appear to be 750. That would bring the number of start-ups in
>ICT/BPO to 262 and not 600.
>
>Now, assuming that I didn't hear or note properly the figures that the
>CTO mentioned; then I see similar figures being reported by a journalist
>[2] which only confirms that I heard right.
The news article states that there are approximately 600
"startup". The Review states that there are around 35% of "start up
within the IT outsourcing segment". That would approximately 263
companies. The figure which the CTO provided do not seem correct.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
Received on Sun Jan 22 2017 - 09:51:02 PST