Activities and work plan

The project activities (capacity building and incubation) will cover 1 year. At the end of the two years, 100 entrepreneurs will have been established.
A. Capacity building
Provide two weeks orientation, two weeks entrepreneurial training, two weeks startup business management training and two weeks real time business training. There will be a total 224 days of training.
The training will be implemented in quarters starting from September 2008. In each quarter:
i. 25 graduates of ICT will be recruited by KIRDI
ii. The 25 graduates will undergo an eight-week training offered by Kamtech Associates Private Limited ( India)
iii. The training program has been designed specifically to train them become IT entrepreneurs.
iv. After completing 8 weeks training they will further take 4 weeks training in India at Kamtech KPO park experiencing real life project implementations
v. e. The graduates, after the weeks will undertake a further 2 weeks business development training ending up with a business plan. Kamtech Associates Pvt Ltd will impart this training and ensure the trainees prepare business development plan for startup
vi. After 12 months the entrepreneurs will move out from the incubator to their own spaces and carry on the business successfully outside the incubator.
vii. Next batch of 25 is admitted to the incubation program after three months thus in first year a total of 100 incubatees are admitted and 75 are put to incubation.

B. Software technology business incubation
i. The 25 entrepreneurs will be admitted to the IT/ITES/ICT incubation programme and helped to set up, manage and grow their enterprises.
ii. KIRDI in with help from Kamtech Associates will provide hand holding support by way of common facilitations and common marketing for a period of 8 months, thereafter helping them establish their respective business and start.