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Sage Kenya: Promoting Entrepreneurship Where it Matters the Most
SAGE Kenya is a country chapter of the Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship, a global community of teenage entrepreneurs sharing a common purpose. Started in 2009, Sage Kenya’s mission is to help create the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders whose innovations and social enterprises address the world’s major unmet needs.
"My Summer Vacation"
As you know, I haven't been Posting a lot in the last few weeks. True, I've had seminars in Kenya and Brazil, but my calendar is mainly filled with blanks.
Profile: HALCHA Youth & Community Development organization
HALCHA Youth and Community Development organization is based in Garbatulla, a small town in northern Kenya where the populace are faced with poor living standards, low literacy levels, unemployment, unpredictable weather patterns that adversely impact on food security.
Entrepreneur Profile: Sospeter Amenya
Sospeter Amenya of BenCro Transition Designs is a Kenyan social entrepreneur whose work mainly involves designing websites and developing custom software to help in various aspects that are aimed at creating more opportunities for the impoverished society. We at the Youth Interactive Portal for Enterprise (YIPE) recently got a chance to interview him regarding the importance of determination to venture into enterprise as well as his future aspirations.
East African entrepreneurs need a level playing field in the new Common Market
The regional integration of the East Africa community is finally here. With the promise of trade barriers falling, for East African entrepreneurs this bodes well in a common market of 130 million people.

Don't Let Your Group Drink Dirty Water-Be a Leader
There is an Akamba, Kenya, proverb that says, "Syaasya ndongoi, inyusaa muuluu." This wise saying means when a herd of cattle lacks a leader, it ends up drinking dirty water. This saying is based on an observation in which the last herd to get to the water source finds the water has been made dirty by the ones that arrived before it.

Google is Moving in East Africa
7 Month old Google Kenya is starting to interact with the local hackers and devs. Just this Tuesday they sponsored the local Tuesday Skunkworks event, giving some of their thoughts on Kenya specifically. My friend, and fellow Kenyan blogger, Bankelele was in attendance and took notes.
Enhanced Google Maps for East Africa
On tuesday I had the rare opportunity courtesy of Chris Kiagiri, Technical Lead at Google Kenya to have a sneak peek at the upcoming enhanced google mpas for east africa and let me say it was truly awesome. The amount of detail in this new version is quite amazing, a quick look at the nairobi map goes as far down as streets, buildings (building name and icon) and even adds information to indicate if the street is one way or two way. The enhanced maps currently cover major cities and towns in East Africa including Nairobi, Mombasa, Nakuru, and Dar es Salaam.
What's Next for My Company
Although this project has been a long time (3years+) in development, as a trading business we are still in our infancy. However we see great opportunity to grow in 2008.

Why I Decided to Start my Company
I have always wanted to work for myself, and whenever business ideas/opportunities present themselves I have always been keen to follow up and research the feasibility and potential of various business ideas.

ICT Peace Initiative
On monday I had the opportunity to be part of a discussion that was convened by ICT leaders, in attendance were 4 key players in the ICT industry. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss how the ICt community can use their infrastructure to push out a positive message about Kenya at a time when all the messages being broadcasted are negative.
Google cocktail- interesting and informative
On thursday evening I attended a small cocktail hosted by the head of google kenya, Joe Mucheru, and by extension the google head office. The cocktail proved to be quite interesting and informative, the attendance was diverse with people from different fields, google was represented by several key people including the Technical Lead in the kenyan office who is 100% kenyan although he did work at the googleplex in mountain view, california.
Kenya’s Second BarCamp
I’ve been impressed to see the developers and bloggers from Kenya and South Africa taking the time to create gatherings where they can pass on knowledge - everyone ends up profiting from the experience. The techies in Nairobi have just concluded their 2nd BarCamp this year (the first was in March).
The importance of networking
This morning at 7.30am the Kenya ICT Board (www.ict.go.ke) held an open forum for the Kenya BPO & Contact Centre Society an umbrella organisation for all things outsourcing. I was to make a short presentation on some of the work we are doing on their portal, but I arrived a few minutes late so I wasn't slotted in, even though I was disappointed having worked on the powerpoint the previous night I opted to stay and hear what was to be said.

3rd TIDE Innovation Series
The 3rd TIDE Innovation Series is slated for the 22nd of November 2007 at the Grand Regency from 5pm-7pm.
KopiBure - An Innovative Student Advertising Business
KopiBure (the name is swahili for free copies) is an advertising company that deals with advertising in Universities, Colleges and other tertiary institutions of learning in Kenya.
Kenya, the land of the pyramids
Over the past few months, there has been an increasing number of pyramid schemes mushrooming all over the country. All promise amazing returns with zero risk, they lure hard working kenyans ( a large number of civil servants) into the setup and after some time they close shop.

Creating Effective Capacity Building Relationships
MicroStart's use of TSPs is an experiment in creating a new framework for capacity building. The original design sprang from the recognition that the standard CTA model in use throughout UNDP projects was not the best way to support the development of microfinance institutions.

What if They Don’t Buy?
This post I am writing in response to the story about the UK Soil Association’s decision to increase barriers to airfreight produce imports from other countries. When I read this story my heart became heavy for the Kenyan and Ghanaian farmers who will likely lose income and might ultimately be forced to sell or reorganize their farms; as a result of the harsh new standards imposed upon agricultural products flown into the UK from abroad.

5.1 The results vary by diversification regime: Economic Report on Africa 2007
At this point, it is worthwhile to recall the five diversification regimes: those countries with little diversification; countries that started but got stuck in the diversification process; those with deepened diversification; backsliders in diversification; and the conflict and post-conflict countries. This report suggests that belonging to a particular regime has more to do with policy and institutional factors at the country level. Consequently, there are different determinants when the discussion is brought to the country level (see table A5.2 for correlation results).
Outsourcing Business Processes to Africa
For those of you who have not known me long, you may not have known me long-but you do know that I am crazy about letting others know why they should be doing business in Africa. But people are imperfect, as I wholeheartedly admit that I am an example of human imperfection. It has occurred to me that sometimes in my zest for talking about Africa’s business environments, I may tend to speak in a very general sense. But maybe if you have been on the receiving end of such a conversation, and you have said to yourself-”what type of business in Africa?” or “Africa, I thought that people only go there to help the needy”.
3 Localized Ideas for African Web Developers
There is a group of Kenyan techies, called Skunkworks, that talk on a Skype channel regularly. It’s an interesting mix of developers who share news and talk passionately about the potential of the web and mobile market in Kenya. In our conversation last week, the discussion of local content for specific regions kept popping up.

Kenya’s Own: Kimani Wanguhu Envisions Empowerment!
This post was originally posted by Benin Mwangi on Kenya Imagine. It is actually the interview thatWilson Kimani Wanguhu and myself did about his brainchild-Kenya Empowerment News. And by the way, you can expect to see more collaboration between our two sites in the future-so stay tuned, eh?
Kenya’s Own: Kimani Wanguhu Envisions Empowerment!
This post was originally posted by Benin Mwangi on Kenya Imagine. It is actually the interview thatWilson Kimani Wanguhu and myself did about his brainchild-Kenya Empowerment News. And by the way, you can expect to see more collaboration between our two sites in the future-so stay tuned, eh?
Kenya’s Own: Kimani Wanguhu Envisions Empowerment!
This post was originally posted by Benin Mwangi on Kenya Imagine. It is actually the interview thatWilson Kimani Wanguhu and myself did about his brainchild-Kenya Empowerment News. And by the way, you can expect to see more collaboration between our two sites in the future-so stay tuned, eh?
Kenya’s Own: Kimani Wanguhu Envisions Empowerment!
This post was originally posted by Benin Mwangi on Kenya Imagine. It is actually the interview thatWilson Kimani Wanguhu and myself did about his brainchild-Kenya Empowerment News. And by the way, you can expect to see more collaboration between our two sites in the future-so stay tuned, eh?
Kenya’s Own: Kimani Wanguhu Envisions Empowerment!
This post was originally posted by Benin Mwangi on Kenya Imagine. It is actually the interview thatWilson Kimani Wanguhu and myself did about his brainchild-Kenya Empowerment News. And by the way, you can expect to see more collaboration between our two sites in the future-so stay tuned, eh?
Kenya’s Own: Kimani Wanguhu Envisions Empowerment!
This post was originally posted by Benin Mwangi on Kenya Imagine. It is actually the interview thatWilson Kimani Wanguhu and myself did about his brainchild-Kenya Empowerment News. And by the way, you can expect to see more collaboration between our two sites in the future-so stay tuned, eh?
African Path Interview with Sandstorm Kenya
For those of you who have not yet had a chance to read this interview, I highly recommend that you do it. The interview is between Joshua Wanyama, Editor of African Path and Keith Steel, owner of apparel maker Sandstorm Kenya.
Preciss Speaks-Champion a Nation Through Outsource!
Some of you may recall that last year on the Benin Epilogue, we featured a piece on the entrepreneur behind a Business Process Outsource (BPO) company from Kenya called Preciss Patrol. Actually, it was one of my favorite posts because it encapsulated so many important facets of entrepreneurship-all in one story.
Changing the mindset
As technology director at our company one of my key responsibilities is to identify talented and eager web enthusiasts the objective of which is to train and mentor them in two key areas Technology and Business. As a company we are aiming to set a standard not only in the technologies that are used but also in developing applications that make business sense within this part of the world, what this means is that the people we identify need to be innovative not necessarily entrepreneurs but they must possess a degree of creativity and I'm sure you'll agree with me that in order for you set a standard innovation is key. I once told a techie that we don't want to reinvent the wheel all we need to do is find one aspect of the wheel that we can improve and make it work for this part of the world.

Why the African Digerati Can Make a Difference
Some of the greatest insights on this site have come from the individuals leaving comments. Someone by the name of “Goat Herd” left one of those comments today, on one of my favorite blog posts “The Dark Continent: It’s Still Dark” from over a year ago. Thank you “Goat Herd”, and thanks to everyone else who enriches all of us by leaving comments and keeping the discussions going here. This comment is worthy of a post entirely to itself, it’s well worth the read:
Why the African Digerati Can Make a Difference
Some of the greatest insights on this site have come from the individuals leaving comments. Someone by the name of “Goat Herd” left one of those comments today, on one of my favorite blog posts “The Dark Continent: It’s Still Dark” from over a year ago. Thank you “Goat Herd”, and thanks to everyone else who enriches all of us by leaving comments and keeping the discussions going here. This comment is worthy of a post entirely to itself, it’s well worth the read:
Maybe we need Incompetent web developers
For the past couple of days I haven't blogged very much, mainly because I've been very busy with Peupe from a development point of view as well as from a business angle. So today on my way to our company executive meeting I decided to carry a book to read - if you've experienced public road transport in Kenya then I'm sure you'll understand why I carried a book to read but that is another story for another day.
Maybe we need Incompetent web developers
For the past couple of days I haven't blogged very much, mainly because I've been very busy with Peupe from a development point of view as well as from a business angle. So today on my way to our company executive meeting I decided to carry a book to read - if you've experienced public road transport in Kenya then I'm sure you'll understand why I carried a book to read but that is another story for another day.

Other Kenya Related Articles

"My Summer Vacation"
As you know, I haven't been Posting a lot in the last few weeks. True, I've had seminars in Kenya and Brazil, but my calendar is mainly filled with blanks.
15.0 The state of research on women in MSES in Tanzania: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
There is more available research on women entrepreneurs in Tanzania than in Ethiopia and Kenya. One of the major reasons for this is the presence of the Entrepreneurship Centre at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDEC).
Kenya’s Own: Kimani Wanguhu Envisions Empowerment!
This post was originally posted by Benin Mwangi on Kenya Imagine. It is actually the interview thatWilson Kimani Wanguhu and myself did about his brainchild-Kenya Empowerment News. And by the way, you can expect to see more collaboration between our two sites in the future-so stay tuned, eh?
MITIGATING RISKS FOR AFRICA'S GROWTH BUSINESSES (SMEs)
PRESENTATION AT THE JAI/ADB 2ND ND AWIB TRAINING WORKSHOP SEPTEMBER 19-23, TUNIS, TUNISIA BY PETER KIBIRITI, CEO, CORPORATE AFRICA LTD CEO,NAIROBI, KENYA AUGUST 2005
Tanzania on a mission to wipe out Kenya’s flamingoes
Kenya’s multi-billion shillings tourism industry faces major test as Tanzanian authorities plan a soda ash project that could eliminate the flamingos in the region.
The importance of networking
This morning at 7.30am the Kenya ICT Board (www.ict.go.ke) held an open forum for the Kenya BPO & Contact Centre Society an umbrella organisation for all things outsourcing. I was to make a short presentation on some of the work we are doing on their portal, but I arrived a few minutes late so I wasn't slotted in, even though I was disappointed having worked on the powerpoint the previous night I opted to stay and hear what was to be said.

Judy Wawira
An aspiring young entrepreneur from Kenya talks about her businesses and what she sees in store for the future.
Why the Internet Matters in Africa
If anyone doubts the power of the internet in Africa, they need to look no further than what is happening in Kenya right now. Kenya is balanced on the precarious edge of a cliff that could quickly descend into even more riots, bloodshed and government heavy-handedness. The people I’m talking to via Skype/email tell me that there are gunshots going off as we type… This isn’t Zimbabwe (yet), but it is still bad.

Google is Moving in East Africa
7 Month old Google Kenya is starting to interact with the local hackers and devs. Just this Tuesday they sponsored the local Tuesday Skunkworks event, giving some of their thoughts on Kenya specifically. My friend, and fellow Kenyan blogger, Bankelele was in attendance and took notes.
KopiBure - An Innovative Student Advertising Business
KopiBure (the name is swahili for free copies) is an advertising company that deals with advertising in Universities, Colleges and other tertiary institutions of learning in Kenya.
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