Over the last few years, business incubations, accelerators, technology labs and fellowships have become an integral component in the local business start-up ecosystem. These initiatives mentor budding entrepreneurs by equipping them with the necessary set of skills to start and run businesses. Some even provide trainees with seed capital to get their business ideas off […]
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James King’ori, 24, is the head of content production and social media management at Imara TV. It’s a virtual platform that crowdsources content from talented youth to create awareness on matters sexual reproductive health in an informative and entertaining way. James has experienced tremendous growth in his skills, financial independence as well as career ambition.
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Following the immense growth of technology globally, most young people in Kenya have made search engines and social media their directories for all matters including information on sexuality and reproductive health, research shows. With most being impressionable by nature, it has become imperative to ensure that the information they access is credible and that it
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Kenya is considered a leading nation for information technology in Africa, but the country has not yet fully exploited its digital potential. Many projects go to international companies in the USA and India because Kenya does not have enough skilled IT experts. While its software developers may have the necessary programming skills, they often lack
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UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund in collaboration with Nailab, a technology driven business incubator, on August 4, 2016 announced four winning social entrepreneurs of its innovation accelerator, dubbed the I.AM iAccelerator. The innovation accelerator is focused on catalyzing and accelerating innovative solutions that will scale up access to youth friendly sexual reproductive health (SRH) information and
What you need to know: Stakeholders of Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) have been urged to leverage on technology to address existing gaps in service provision. Stakeholders of Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) have been urged to leverage on technology to address existing gaps in service provision. In a virtual stakeholders’ forum facilitated
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We aim to grow and support our community, both developers and users. This is a bit of a juggle with the many moving parts of three software products combined with a global network of people using our software for election monitoring, crisis/emergency response and civil society actions. For recognition, we have a few existing programs
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In early 2014, Stephen Maina and his wife were excited and eagerly anticipating the birth of their first child. However, 3 weeks before the due date, his wife experienced a sudden onset of a full-blown case of preeclampsia which necessitated her early delivery. As a young and inexperienced father, Stephen set out to find out
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The Kenya Film Commission has unveiled a jury of experts for the second edition of the “My Kenya My Story” mobile phone film competition. This is a competition for short Kenyan films shot exclusively using mobile phones. This year’s edition is themed “Mental Health and Wellness”. By close of submission on 19th July 2019, the competition had received
Stephen Maina Ndungu is the Co-founder and CEO of the Dutch-Kenyan software development company Competa Millman. Could you introduce your company to us? Competa Millman creates software solutions to help organisations in East Africa achieve goals and overcome challenges using technology. We have a track record in delivering complex software development projects using modern techniques such as Agile
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