The Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Limited, KETRACO has partnered with Kenyatta University to offer scholarships to girls from vulnerable families across the country. The partnership will see KETRACO pump resources into the program dubbed KETRACO Scholarship for Orphans and Vulnerable Students (KSOVS). Over the next five years vulnerable female students in KU’s Electrical or Civil Engineering faculty are set to be beneficiaries of the initiative. Speaking during the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signing ceremony, KETRACO’s Managing Director FCPA Fernandes Barasa hailed the initiative as attempting to bridge the engineering skills gap in the country – which is one of the initiatives the…
Author: Dinah Kanana
5 African startups with solutions in the credit scoring space have been selected to pitch for the chance to secure a testing phase for their solutions with French utility company ENGIE. The partnership between ENGIE and Africa Tech Summit Kigali offered credit scoring startups with the potential to provide innovative solutions to both existing and future ENGIE customers the chance to pitch on the Africa Startup Summit stage. ENGIE is looking for credit scoring solutions to provide proper, accurate, efficient and relevant business intelligence to improve and optimise the prospection and acquisition of future customers, financing schemes for its existing…
With the meteoric rise of social media sharing over the last decade, video ads have become vital to the online advertising community. Once costly to produce, video ads are becoming more accessible to small businesses, and here’s how you can get started with a few handy tips. Planning The most important first step for making any professionally produced video ad is to plan out each shot, your lines, backdrop, etc. This way you have a written plan to guide you along the process for actually producing the video. We find that planning your production is a great way to prevent…
Rensource, a Nigerian renewable energy company, fresh from a $20m round, wants to connect over 1 million merchants in Nigeria to power. Ademola Adesina, Founder and CEO of Rensource said, “We believe that simultaneously greening and decentralizing its power infrastructure is the only way to navigate Nigeria out of its current state of energy poverty. Pursuing this with a focus on the millions of small-businesses that drive our economy creates a massive multiplier effect whose benefit accrues to all. The round was co-led by existing investors CRE Venture Capital and the Omidyar Network, with participation from Inspired Evolution,Proparco, EDPR, I&P,…
Insert an image, because a picture is worth a thousand words. Roll the credits. Kidding aside, not reaching a minimum word count feels a lot like hitting a dead end. You may feel unmotivated to even finish your piece or find other words to say – yet when deadlines call, who are we but to answer? If I were you, I’d think twice before rephrasing that thing I’ve already said five times. As Einstein once put it, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again.” If you’re doing it right, increasing word count takes a lot more than…
The generators that are being used today can be traced back to a simple device invented by British physicist Micheal Faraday in 1831. It was then made of a tube, wire, and a bar magnet with cotton insulation. From then to now there have been many advancements in the generator technology. Though the speed of innovation in this industry is not as fast as other industries it has not lagged behind too much either. Generators and types: Generators are backup power sources that become the primary power supply in case of power outages. Before learning more about the latest advancements…
BrighterMonday has introduced a new product designed to make the process of finding the best candidates more efficient for human resource professionals, business heads and entrepreneurs looking to hire quality talent. The tool dubbed ‘Best Match’ aims to cater to growing organizations with limited access to niche talent, those with mass recruitment needs as well as organizations that were not savvy enough to use digital recruitment solutions. “Employers who use the Best Match product will get up to 10 best matches within the first 7 days of their job posting going live,” said BrighterMonday CEO Emmanuel Mutuma. Best Match aims…
In any organization, one of the most challenging processes is when a new software system is being installed. Thus, it is important that the management of change software should be in place in order to achieve success in the implementation. Mitigate Resistance Through Management of Change Software It is daunting to overcome organizational politics and resistance whenever the organization is implementing new software systems like this work order software but which is absolutely necessary to help increase company efficiency. One of the first things that a manager should do is to work hard at agreeing on the initiative and deciding as to…
The principle behind marketing is anchored on making a connection with your audience. If you have a great product or service that aligns with their needs, you will need to bridge these needs with your brand. Often, people are more motivated to engage a business when they know that such a relationship is beneficial for them. But in most cases, people can be compelled to purchase something from you if you are able to strike a chord within them. There are emotional triggers that enable your audience to see what you are capable of bringing to the table. It’s the…
Safaricom has launched “M-PESA Kadogo” allowing users who send anything below ($1) KSHs 100 and below to send money for free. According to the firm, this move will empower the mama mbogas, the small and the micro agents who form the company’s network.This move is also expected to raise the firm’s revenues especially from M-Pesa. Safaricom saw 30.8% growth with EBITDA to Kshs 50.8bn with a margin of 49.8%. The firm’s net income increased by 32.4% to Kshs 23.9bn. Free cash flow of up 111.6% to 20.1bn. Safaricom’s M-Pesa revenue recorded a growth of 33.7% to ksh 25.9bn driven by…
Dentsu Aegis Network, an agency network with operations in Kenya and across the world, will in April 2017 launch its Consumer Connection System, a research and communications planning tool that provides clients with unique and in-depth insights into consumer behaviour and their relationships with media. The Consumer Connection System is Dentsu Aegis Network’s flagship integrated consumer insight, planning and buying suite tool, designed to feed communication strategy and tactical planning. CCS is a first of its kind investment in consumer and media research by a single agency network in Kenya outside of the industry standard AMPS. According to Byron John, Insights &…
icolo.io, a carrier neutral data center provider, has broken ground for a new data center in Nairobi, Kenya targeting to provide 268 cabinets for customer use with up to 800KW of available IT power. “With our new data center, we are able to offer redundancy, reliability, choice of connectivity partners and flexibility to our colocation customers” said Ranjith Cherickel, founder and CEO of icolo.io The first phase of the 27,000sqft plus data center will be ready in May 2017 and construction on the second phase will start later in the year.The will have redundant power complete with its own back-up…
Every time some readers hear someone mention the term API (application program interface), the think of sophisticated computer programming out of their reach, yet they use and experience APIs everyday of their lives! Some of them book their flight and hotel tickets online, shop online and in-store and even have simple applications using API’s. Whopping online or paying for anything electronically, there are API’s involved. For example, anyone shopping online on Amazon or eBay will use either Visa or MasterCard or PayPal to pay. Because of presence of APIs or Bridges one will easily pay for a good or service…