The dawn of video conferencing is catching up with corporate Kenya,
thanks to revolution in ICT bolstered by arrival of undersea fibre
optic cables.Companies with regional presence are sometimes forced to
hold board meetings in the countries they operate in.
Video conferencing enables companies to save on travel, accommodation, allowance costs incurred in business conventions and meetings as well as save the time spent moving.Environmentalists say business travel contributes to air pollution largely due to the amount of carbon emitted into the atmosphere eventually causing huge financial losses to those businesses in the long term.
Video-conferencing equipment cost between Ksh 40,000 and Ksh 4M
depending on the size and use.Google Kenya, Telkom Kenya, and Bamburi
cement have video conferencing facilities.
Video Conferencing Providers in Kenya
1. UUNET
Internetservice provider UUNET has a partneship with electronic manufacturer
Sony to provide video conferencing facilities in Kenya. UUNET provides
the bandwidth capacity required to enable the video conferencing and
they also resell video conferencing equipment.
2. Sight and Sound Ltd
Sight and Sound is a vendor of Polycom video conferencing
equipment.Sight and Sound has implemented over 50 sites, most of them
for NGOs, embasies, and few corporates.
3. Kenya Development Learning Centre
KDLCoffers outsourced conferencing facilities for between sh 14800 to sh
37,000 an hour.
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