Business News

Kenyan Safaricom extends money transfers to Britain
Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:18am EDT
By Helen Nyambura-Mwaura
NAIROBI, Oct 13 (Reuters) – Kenyan mobile operator Safaricom (SCOM.NR) extended its money transfer service to Britain on Tuesday and may roll it out to other countries.
The service – known as M-Pesa – transfers over 600 million shillings daily and [...]

9th – 11th February 2010

Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa

NEPAD ICT Africa Summit 2010 is a NEPAD Council and NEPAD Secretariat continental Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) event addressing a wide range of ICT issues in Africa.

Building on the successes of the last three NEPAD [...]

NAIROBI, Kenya/TORONTO, Canada – Monday May 18, 2009.

A partnership agreement for Information Security Training has been reached between Canadian-based Agano Consulting Inc and Nairobi-based K-Ninety East Africa Ltd (K-90EA). The deal was reached between Dr. Matunda Nyanchama of Agano Consulting Inc. and Mr. Preston Odera of K-90EA.

The two companies will collaborate to bring [...]

Business Opportunity Study within the IT and Telecommunication Industry in Kenya

A sector study prepared for Danida by Håndværksrådet (the Danish Federation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises) in collaboration with Growth Africa, Kenya; November 2006

Below is an extract of the Executive Summary
Click here to download the full report.

The Kenyan ICT industry
The Kenyan [...]

OUTSOURCING TO AFRICA:
A Relative Ranking of 15 Country Locations
This is a Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) study of 15 countries resulting in a ranking of their relative readiness. Criteria used include infrastructure, people/skills and business environment.
Below is an extract from the report from the report’s overview:
“Egypt turns out as the most attractive location in Africa. Egypt [...]

Mobile Banking Empowering the poor

Written by: Natasha Elkington
Six years ago on a whim, I was lucky enough to buy a farm with two friends in my native Kenya. The farm borders the Shimba Hills National Reserve, high above the coastal plain. It’s an enchanting other world, but also very remote.
As I live in Britain at [...]

This article appeared in Forbes Magazine.
Refer to Wikpedia for description of the term Creative Destruction.
Creative Disruption
Citizen Voices
by Megha Bahree 12.08.08, 12:00 AM ET
On a recent day in November 15,000 people were pushing up against the barbed wire outside the United Nation’s mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo in Goma. They were some [...]

By James Anyanzwa
The Co-operative Bank’s pursuit to raise Sh10 billion through an initial public offering (IPO) has started off with early indications that the offer could be priced at about Sh14 a share.
In the IPO, billed to the second largest after Safaricom, more than 50,000 individual shareholders of the bank are expecting to boost the [...]

By Prof. Timothy Mwololo Waema

Executive Summary
(See full report at: 2007-kenya-telecoms-sector-performance-review)
This report reviews the status of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector in Kenya in 2006. The report of the study is an update of a similar review carried out in 2003, which covered the period 1999 to 2003. This earlier review [...]

By: Rebecca Wanjiku – IDG News Service (Nairobi Bureau) (hs) (07 Aug 2008)
Project will eventually dispose of gear from five countries
NAIROBI, KENYA – Computers For Schools Kenya (CFSK) has opened East Africa’s first e-waste management plant in Embakasi, Kenya, to handle the region’s electronic recycling needs.
The project, undertaken in [...]