According to the Konza information website, the city wants to attract business process outsourcing, software development, data centres, disaster recovery centres, call centres and light assembly manufacturing industries.

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To enable this kind of development process, Smart TV Alliance will make the first version of its software development kit (SDK) available on its website which developers can download at no cost and use to develop their applications.

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Looking to stay lean, a growing number of start-ups and small firms are turning to crowdsourcing for a variety of one-off jobs, from simple data entry to software testing, Website design, advertising, marketing, or research and development.

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