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Workshop: Designing Apps for the Masses in Africa
Participants at our workshop at Strathmore University This past week the Semacraft team was at Strathmore University holding a workshop for the MSc Telecommunications Innovation (Safaricom Academy)...
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Align With The BoP Customer’s Aspirations. Or Die.
Kibera is Kenya’s largest slum: informal settlement if we go by the more established euphemism in use today. The corrugated iron sheet roofs do not stand alone on this vast landscape but are...
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Message from Africa: We Have Money. We Will Buy.
This is the first of a four-part series on Africa, The Present Frontier. The usual picture of Africa rarely includes middle class consumers and designer brands. In fact, it rarely portrays the other...
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Workshop: Designing Apps for the Masses (Inoorero University, Nairobi)
The Inoorero University campus in Nairobi, Kenya Developing mobile apps for service providers can have unique challenges. During this week’s workshop at Inoorero University, participants bumped into...
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Where Opportunities Lie in the African Mobile Space
Africa straddles two realities. One is underpinned by the belief that Africa is the next frontier and measures the continent’s progress against an expected trajectory and momentum modeled on that which...
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Four Things to Consider When Designing Small Solar Systems for Africa
If you are preparing to launch a solar lighting product in sub-Sahara Africa, especially Kenya, here are four things to consider based on my observations in Eastern Kenya earlier this year. No...
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The Innovation EcoSystem in East Africa
This post is the third in a four-part series on Africa: The Present Frontier “Many investors see East Africa’s strong growth potential as a driver of better investment performance than in South Africa:...
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Innovating for the People: How Africa is using Technology for Better Governance.
This post is the forth and last article in a four-part series on Africa: The Present Frontier. On his first day in office, US President Barrack Obama signed the Memorandum on Transparency and Open...
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Delivering Value Made Simple
“The rationale behind how a business creates, delivers and captures value.” That’s the short version definition for the term ‘business model‘. For those with no background in economics or commerce...
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Mobile in East Africa. Is Reality Finally Getting Through?
Last week, an illustrious panel was joined by a reasonably sized audience at the iHub in Nairobi for a no-holds-barred discussion on the question is the Silicon Savannah hype or reality? Andrea...
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