Microsoft presides over graduation of Kenyan trainees

Ugunja Community Resource Centre partners with Microsoft to officiate the graduation of youth, women, and persons with disability in Siaya District.

Ugunja, Kenya – 23rd March, 2009 – The Ugunja Community Resource Centre African Centre (UCRC) today hosted a graduation ceremony for 550 youth, women, and persons with disability following the successful completion of their training in ICT, Entrepreneurship and Life Skills.

Submitted by Cleopa on Mon, 03/30/2009 - 09:55.

Internet Use Falls Far Behind Mobile Phones

Despite being identified as a leading reformer in the ICT sector in the continent, consumers in Kenya are being charged relatively higher for ICT services compared to other countries.
According to a new World Bank report titled Africa’s Infrastructure: A Time for Transformation released last week, the country has recorded a relatively high Internet usage though the service is costly.

Submitted by Cleopa on Wed, 02/11/2009 - 10:12.

Free Pocket Guide to Ubuntu

Ubuntu is increasingly getting popular, this resource will be useful to both the experts and new users.

 http://www.ubuntupocketguide.com/download.html

 

Submitted by Cleopa on Thu, 01/29/2009 - 04:50.

Going green: A paperless economy

Kenya is now set to achieving a paperless economy following signing into law the contentious Communication (Amendment) Act 2008 by President Kibaki on January 2.

This effectively gives the ICT sector impetus to start reaping fruits from the much-awaited undisputed sections of the new law. For long, Kenya has been a champion in many areas, but not in e-commerce due to lack of relevant legislation.

Submitted by Cleopa on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 13:56.

How to Start a Business incubator for entrepreneurship

How to Start a Business incubator

Business incubators have proven to be an effective way for fostering
sustainable business growth and stimulating entrepreneurship.  But
establishing a business incubator is a challenging task.  This section
helps readers decide whether or not an incubator is the most
appropriate business development tool for their circumstances, and sets
out the feasibility and planning issues that underpin the establishment
of a new incubator.

Submitted by Cleopa on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 10:58.

In Search For Sustainability & Factors Around It.

Sustainability remains a key challange to most telecentres today, this document looks at some of the key to look at while about sustainability.

http://www.kenyatelecentres.org/files/In search of sustainability.doc

Submitted by Cleopa on Thu, 01/22/2009 - 20:06.

State to put up special zone for ICT firms

The government is set to create a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Kitengela, Athi River to drive its implementation of Vision 2030.

Already, the government is seeking to purchase land of not less than 3,000 acres which will host an information communication technology (ICT) park, science park, industrial park and small and medium enterprises (SME) park.

Efforts to determine the amount to be spent were not successful as calls to Information PS, Dr Bitange Ndemo went unanswered.

Submitted by Cleopa on Thu, 01/22/2009 - 19:38.

East Africa Telecentre Academy taking shape as committee convene in Kampala to discuss curriculum development

Since last year’s successful EA telecentre forum held in Sudan, the
committee selected to spearhead the academy has been collaborating
online to gather ideas as well as set action points. One of the
resolutions was that the academy be hosted at Kyambogo University in
Uganda, through the lead organization Uganda Development Services. The
team is also very keen to learn from the Telecentre.org academy
curriculum grant and adopt what’s relevant.

Submitted by Cleopa on Tue, 01/20/2009 - 16:10.

KenTel mailing list

Dear Telecentre Practitoners,

Welcome to the Kenya Network of Telecentres mailing list. This list has been developed with the support of UgaBytes Initiative. KenTel secretariat is particularly grateful to the UgaBytes team which has been instrumental and for this we would wish to make a special mention of Ahmed and Sulah.

Submitted by Cleopa on Thu, 12/11/2008 - 11:00.

The Kenya ICT Board Commences ICT Entrepreneurship Training Program

 Kenya ICT Board commenced the ICT Entrepreneurship Training Program today 1st December 2008. This is a major milestone that will see over 7500 ICT entrepreneurs trained over the next 3 years.

This training which comes at no cost to the trainee will ensure that graduates of the course are eligible to own and run the Board’s Pasha Centres.

Submitted by Cleopa on Thu, 12/11/2008 - 10:50.
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