Presentation: (Technology) Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Panel on Tech Entrepreneurship in .Ke

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The latest Skunkworks was held on September 29 2009 at Teleposta Towers Nairobi. The focus of the tech group this week was on Tech & Entrepreneurship and four speakers were chosen to provide their insight on the new business models they are developing in Kenya. This comes at a time when the fibre cable initially considered the greatest thing since sliced bread has become a corporate product with targets to break-even before cheap internet costs can be passed on. The fibre is just one arm, so it was good to hear techpreneurs talk not just about revolutionary business but grappling and scaling numerous challenges of running such businesses in this part of Africa – i.e. business registration, financing, staffing, patenting, winning contracts, succeeding and making money.

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Mobile Technology and Entrepreneurship (in Kenya)

I presented this at the 10th Annual Strathmore University ICT Conference: Opportunities and Challenges Towards an Entrpreneurial Economy

Evangelizing Passion

In my last post I indicated that I had joined Microsoft as an Academic Developer Evangelist. I have started a blog called ‘Evangelizing Passion’ where I am sharing experiences in my current role, as well as a stuff concerning what I am/will be doing and also generally about technology (Micrsoft or not).

I have also started the ‘Evangelizing Passion’ facebook group which anyone is welcome to join. Here we can share more and learn from each other:

[Evangelizing Passion is]A group for those passionate about technology and about microsoft developer tools and platfoms. Especially students. Innovation, problem solving, that’s what we’re all about!

For those of us on MySpace I will also be starting a MySpace edition of Evangelizing Passion soon!

Cherio!