There's a lot to unpack, but the one thing I'll comment on is this perception that there's no talent locally. University students being unable to work for your company without training is a feature of university education, not a bug. You are given a broad based education with the fundamentals that allows you to apply yourself wherever you see fit. This idea that the student should be ready for your niche need confuses a polytechnic for a university. A good CS education gives one the tools to apply themselves to a variety of fields, not one unique use case. You can specialize later. There's a lot of talent locally. Safaricom, JTL, Seacom etc all hire local engineers to run their networks. You also have good software development expertise, the likes of Pesapal, Innova etc all build their software locally, from locally sourced graduates. There's a reason why many CS graduates end up working in finance, banking etc. There are fewer jobs for well trained CS graduates than they can fill. 

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 6:45 AM, Bitange Ndemo via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23322373.2017.1400260 may interest you.

Ndemo.

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Kigen Koech via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Very intriguing indeed ...

I believe that African innovation at the core are inspired with the need to better the society through bridging the 'need-gap' whereas the foreign template of entrepreneurship primarily focus on viability and profitability, of which in is not entirely evil, though the failure thereof would kill seeds of hope through technovation that may have intended to solve a meaningful problem and thereby providing a foundation for more solutions.

If you look at the need and drive for some of these authentic kenyan solutions; eatout, sendy, bunifu, illuminumgreenhouses etc among many more others out there, i believe, stemmed out from a need to better their environment and while at it saw the derived benefit to the end user.

My thoughts on this.

Kind Regards,

Kigen Koech
Business Development Manager
Telkom Kenya
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On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Sidney Ochieng via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Shifting Norms of Professionalization in a Nairobi Technology Start-Up Community – Research Explorations https://angelaokune.me/2017/11/29/shifting-norms-of-professionalization-in-a-nairobi-technology-start-up-community/

A great read that leaves me more questions than answers. 
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