[kictanet] Random Online (internet) query to the question "Who Owns...........?: " Taifa Laptop

Sat Aug 27 13:28:14 EAT 2016

Safaricom has staff working on M-PESA, and M-PESA in Kenya is hosted in
Safaricom data centres in Kenya, manned by Safaricom staff.

On Sat, 27 Aug 2016, 13:18 Wangari Kabiru via kictanet, <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Blessed day!
>
> This is the response on a random Online (internet) query to the question
> "Who Owns...........?". To the below cited as Kenyan innovations on
> KICTANET. Note there may be many more responses as you do a random query
>
> In innovation speak, tafadhali jaza pengo, so Kenya is a..........,
> Kenyan's are innovative? Kenyans are not innovative? Kenyans are good
> consumers of innovations?
>
> 1.M-Pesa
> “The people working on M-Pesa service are Vodafone staff in Germany, the
> UK. Safaricom does not have people working on M-Pesa.” Vodafone owns the
> M-Pesa concept and has introduced it in eight countries including Kenya,
> India, Tanzania, and South Africa.May 14, 2013
>
> Type Public. Owned by Vodafone 40% & Permanent Secretary (The Treasury) 35%
>
> 2. M-Kopa Solar
> M-Kopa (M = mobile, 'kopa' is Swahili for 'borrowed') is a Kenyan solar
> energy company that was founded in 2011 by Nick Hughes, Chad Larson, and
> Jesse Moore.[1] Moore and Hughes were previously colleagues at Vodafone,[2]
> and Larson and Moore were fellow MBA students at Oxford University [3][4]
> The company sells home solar systems in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.[5]
> Customers pay a deposit of 3,500 KES (approx $35), take the system home
> then pay 50 KES (approx $0.50) a day for a period of one year, to own the
> solar system. Daily payments are made through M-PESA, a mobile phone based
> money system, and in addition to getting solar power, customers also slowly
> off-set the cost of the device.[6] The system is meant for an off-grid
> household who is using kerosene (paraffin) lamps to light their home, and
> paying for batteries and phone charging.
>
> 3. Mobius
> Q & A with Joel Jackson, founder of Mobius Motors
> By John Peabody May 23, 2013
> Tags: AFRICA | CARS | MOBIUS | SMALL BUSINESS
> In February, Global Post profiled an interesting startup in Africa called
> Mobius Motors that is working to manufacture affordable ($6,000) cars
> designed specifically for Africans.
>
> By simplifying the designs through the elimination of non-essential parts
> like power steering and air conditioning, the team at Mobius is able to
> drastically reduce the cost of the vehicle, which they hope will help small
> business owners in need of affordable transportation. Reuters reached
> Mobius founder and CEO Joel Jackson over email to ask him about his plans
> for the car company and some of the challenges he foresees.
>
> Reuters: First can you tell me briefly how Mobius came about? I understand
> you were working in Africa when you had the idea?
>
> J.J.: Mobius was inspired by my experience working in rural Kenya in 2009
> with a startup forestry venture. In this role I spent time with local
> farming communities and learned about some of their day-to-day challenges.
> One of the biggest issues these communities faced was immobility. Without
> access to appropriate forms of transport many people would walk tens of
> kilometers to get around – to get access to schools, or doctors, or clean
> drinking water or farming inputs.
>
> The vision of Mobius is to build a more appropriate and affordable vehicle
> for transport businesses and in turn create a platform for mobility across
> Africa.
>
> Reuters: Can you give us some info about the company? Number of employees,
> how many cars you currently build/hope to build? Any info on financials?
>
> J.J.: Mobius has 24 employees. We’ve built two prototype vehicles and one
> production alpha vehicle; and we’re launching initial proof-of-concept
> production of 50 vehicles in Q3 2013. To date, Mobius has raised several
> million dollars of investment and we plan to increase production to 300
> units in mid 2014.
>
> 4. Ushahidi
>
> Ushahidi, Inc.
> Founded 2008
> Founder Erik Hersman, Ory Okolloh, Juliana Rotich, David Kobia
> Type 501(c)(3)
> Tax ID no.
> 2652079
> Focus activism, mapping
> Location
> Nairobi, Kenya
> Origins Crowdsourcing
> Area served
> World
> Method mapping and geospatial
> Owner Ushahidi, Inc.
> Key people
> Erik Hersman, Juliana Rotich, David Kobia,
> Revenue
> US$300,000
> Endowment US$1,800,000[1]
> Employees
> 29
> Volunteers
> 50
> Slogan Crowdsourcing Crisis Information
> Website ushahidi.com
>
> 5. BRCK
>
> Background
>
> Company: BRCK
> Started: 2013
> Total VC Funding: $4.2 million
> HQ: Nairobi, Kenya
> Linkedin Employee Count: 23
> Co-founders: Reg Orton (CTO), Jon Shuler , Philip Walton (COO), Erik
> Hersman (CEO)
> Product: Mobile Wi-Fi Device
>
> 6. BitPesa
>
> One bitcoin start-up is building what it hopes will become a template for
> using digital currencies in the developing world, a much-talked-about
> market for cryptocurrencies. It’s called BitPesa, it’s based in Nairobi,
> and it’s beginning a beta test this week of its first product, a remittance
> service for Kenyans living abroad.
>
> On Friday, the start-up launched a pilot remittance program involving
> about 15 Kenyans in London, who can begin using BitPesa to send money back
> home. If it works, and spreads, it promises to lower the billions currently
> spent on transfer fees, and, its founders hope, maybe even spark a tech
> boom in Kenya.
>
> BitPesa is the brainchild of Duncan Goldie-Scot, a well-known name in
> microfinance, and Elizabeth Rossiello, a Queens-born former Credit Suisse
> banker with a background in microfinance who’s been living in Nairobi the
> past five years. With Ms. Rossiello acting as CEO, the company has raised
> $700,000 so far
>
> 7. KopoKopo
>
> Kopo Kopo is a United States company, with offices in Kenya and Tanzania.
> We are supported by reputed investors ...
>
> 8. PesaPal
>
> Africa /
> Interview: PesaPal’s Agosta Liko on African mobile payment solutionsBy
> Mark Kaigwa on 9 August, 2010
> email article
> Agosta Liko, CEO of PesaPal, relocated to Kenya from the US to start
> Verviant, a software development company in Nairobi. Three years later, the
> team at Verviant launched PesaPal with a vision of enabling Kenyans to make
> online payments.
>
> PesaPal is making great strides in bridging the mobile and electronic
> payment divide in Kenya, and is set to expand to more African countries
> next year. Mark Kaigwa sat down with the CEO to discuss his perspective on
> doing business in Kenya, the African condition, and on how PesaPal was able
> to gain traction with ordinary people.
>
> MK: How would you describe PesaPal at present, and where do you see the
> company heading in the future?
> AL: In short, PesaPal is electronic payments; payments for the African
> condition. Doing things and answering problems that wouldn’t make sense if
> my co-founders weren’t African. It may make no sense to others but it
> applies for Africa.
>
> “Social Cash” is a part of the African condition and culture. Social cash
> is how you raise money for weddings, funeral committees or harambee (a type
> of Kenyan fundraising meeting between family, friends and well-wishers.)
> When these people get together, they bring with them cash, cheques, mobile
> payments, bank transfers, etc. If you can have all that maintained and
> tracked from one account you’ve solved a problem. And it’s good for
> bookkeeping and for their affairs.
>
> To the rest of the world Africa is a place of “micropayments” but to us
> it’s a lot of money. They talk about $2 a day and conclude “that’s not a
> lot of money”.
>
> And the list goes on...
> On Aug 27, 2016 10:13, Timothy- Coach- Oriedo via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
> Well said Ahmed, the crux of it is looking at the entire Value Chain from
> Ideation to Market penetration and customer support.
>
> We often marvel at novelty and seldom subject it to an entire trajectory
> path.
>
> One of the skills that often need to be embedded alongside  the repertoire
> of skills needed for innovative ventures to thrive is Business Development.
> That skill delivered in a coaching intervention format i.e constant
> questioning,  goal setting and action will ensure the list given by Ahmed
> grows significantly....
>
> Restful weekend to all...unless you are at TICAD of course. ..
>
>
> Timothy Oriedo
>
> about.me/Timoriedo
>
>
>
> On 27 Aug 2016 10:01 am, "Ahmed Mohamed Maawy via kictanet" <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
> Personal comments:
>
> A business model that forces success is not a successful business. Its a
> dictatorial business.
>
> Examples of famous products from Kenya that Kenyans use:
>
>    - M-Pesa
>    - M-Kopa Solar
>    - Mobius
>    - Ushahidi
>    - BRCK
>    - BitPesa
>    - KopoKopo
>    - PesaPal
>    - And the list goes on...
>
> Some businesses just need to sort out their business models.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Walubengo J via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
> @ Prof Ndemo,
>
> As you well know and remember, we experimented with our famous e-Maddo
> machines that were assembled at a local university and we tried to sell
> them to government ministries - without much success.
>
> Each ministry had and perhaps still has its 'owners' who will NOT want to
> buy local when they can buy foreign - with some good 'personal returns' :-)
>
> We have great ideas, but zero execution.
>
> #What_Would_Magufuli_Do :-)?
>
> walu.
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Bitange Ndemo via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> *To:* jwalu at yahoo.com
> *Cc:* Bitange Ndemo <bndemo at bitangendemo.me>
> *Sent:* Friday, August 26, 2016 11:20 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] Taifa Laptop
>
> David,
> You are a great man.  Keep on sharing your experiences. Policy is a
> democrat's tool for benevolent dictatorship.  The Government should just
> have a policy to buy lab tops and desk tops from JKUAT.  Our taxes should
> be spent on our products.
>
> Ndemo.
>
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 4:24 PM, David Otwoma via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
> Michael,
>
> I first met Taifa laptops w
>
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