But something is wrong with this picture: The three main pillars of this booming business enterprise software, outsourcing and Y2K fixes all are looking a little shaky.

FORBES: The service mob

India's wildly successful software and business-process-outsourcing industries blossomed not because of help from the government, but precisely because its Licence Raj did not understand these nascent fields well enough to choke them off.

ECONOMIST: The state and business

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.

BBC: Kenya begins construction of 'silicon' city Konza

Our definition of the IT market included business and government purchases of computer and communications equipment, software, and IT consulting and outsourcing services it did not include their purchases of telecommunications services, which are declining in the US and growing slowly globally.

FORBES: Tech Market Forecast Awaits Federal Debt Ceiling Outcome

Note that our definition of the global tech market in this report includes business and government purchases of computer equipment, communications equipment, software, IT consulting services, and IT outsourcing and hardware maintenance services, but does not include purchases of telecommunications services.

FORBES: Global Tech Market To Grow By 5.4% In 2013, 6.7% In 2014