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		<title>Kenyan Safaricom extends money transfers to Britain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kenyan Safaricom extends money transfers to Britain
Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:18am EDT
By Helen Nyambura-Mwaura
NAIROBI, Oct 13 (Reuters) &#8211; 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 &#8211; known as M-Pesa &#8211; transfers over 600 million shillings daily and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aganoconsulting.com/businessnews/archives/120</link>
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		<title>NEPAD ICT AFRICA SUMMIT 2010 &#8211; Cape Town SA</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aganoconsulting.com/businessnews/archives/108</link>
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		<title>Information Security Training &#8211; Agano Consulting Inc. Partners with K-90EA</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aganoconsulting.com/businessnews/archives/88</link>
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		<title>Business Opportunity Study within the IT and Telecommunication Industry in Kenya</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aganoconsulting.com/businessnews/archives/79</link>
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		<title>Outsourcing to Africa: A Relative Ranking 15 Country Readiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s overview:
&#8220;Egypt turns out as the most attractive location in Africa. Egypt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aganoconsulting.com/businessnews/archives/49</link>
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		<title>Mobile Banking Empowers Rural Poor</title>
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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&#8217;s an enchanting other world, but also very remote.
As I live in Britain at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aganoconsulting.com/businessnews/archives/57</link>
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		<title>Creative Destruction &#8211; Giving Citizens a Voice in Crises</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aganoconsulting.com/businessnews/archives/47</link>
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		<title>Kenya&#8217;s Co-op Bank to do IPO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aganoconsulting.com/businessnews/archives/41</link>
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		<title>2007 Kenya Telecommunications Sector Performance Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aganoconsulting.com/businessnews/archives/32</link>
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		<title>Kenya opens first e-waste management plant</title>
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By: Rebecca Wanjiku &#8211; IDG News Service (Nairobi  Bureau) (hs) (07  Aug 2008) 
Project will eventually dispose of gear from five  countries
NAIROBI, KENYA &#8211; Computers For Schools Kenya (CFSK) has opened East Africa&#8217;s  first e-waste management plant in Embakasi, Kenya, to handle the region&#8217;s  electronic recycling needs.
The project, undertaken in [...]]]></description>
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