<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div>Of interest. <br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Kenya ICT Board <<a href="mailto:kkobia@ict.go.ke">kkobia@ict.go.ke</a>><br><b>Date:</b> 14 December 2010 10:10:06 GMT+03:00<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:pkukubo@ict.go.ke"><a href="mailto:pkukubo@ict.go.ke">pkukubo@ict.go.ke</a></a><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Media Advisory: Silicon Valley entrepreneur visit Kenya</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> <a href="mailto:kkobia@ict.go.ke"><a href="mailto:kkobia@ict.go.ke">kkobia@ict.go.ke</a></a><br><br></div></blockquote><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">You are invited to cover the event, which will also feature some Kenya's top tech </span>entrepreneur <span lang="EN-US">.<br></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">Tandaa Tech Talk </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">Venue</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">Kenya ICT Board</span></p>
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<br>Members of the media interested in booking interviews with special guests should contact Kaburo Kobia <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" shape="rect" href="mailto:kkobia@ict.go.ke" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:kkobia@ict.go.ke">kkobia@ict.go.ke</a></a> or call <span id="hwytop"><b>0729466260<br></b></span><br>For more information:
<ul><li><a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" shape="rect" href="#The">Background</a><br> </li><li><a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" shape="rect" href="#Project">Profiles for i/o ventures team</a><br> </li><li><a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" shape="rect" href="#About">About Kenya ICT Board</a> <br> </li><li><a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" shape="rect" href="#To">Contact info</a><span id="hwytop"><span id="hwytop"> </span> </span><br> </li></ul></font></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<h2><span lang="EN-US"><a shape="rect" name="bckgrnd"> </a><a shape="rect" name="The"><img alt="The" title="The" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/ui/images1/s.gif"></a>Background </span></h2>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">i/o ventures is an early stage start up program that focuses heavily on mentorship. Their network of entrepreneurs have started multi-billion dollar internet companies including paypal, youtube, myspace, hi5 and yelp, many of which have over 100 million users visiting their websites monthly. </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">The mentors have visited a number of countries <span id="hwytop"> </span>including Singapore, Brazil, Russia, and mostly recently Tanzania. During their visits <span id="hwytop"> </span>the mentors travel participate in a variety of events which usually include speaking at top universities, meeting with upcoming entrepreneurs, top business leaders and a meeting or dinner with top government officials including the President or Prime Minister.<span> </span>The end goal is to spread ICT entrepreneurship, build a bridge into Silicon Valley and encourage the growth of the local "tech ecosystem". <br></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">i/o ventures are making their first trip to Kenya from December 13 - 14. During their Kenya trip they would like to focus on mentorship based on their extensive experience in incubating start-up entrepreneurs. Their most recent graduating class included six companies in the internet space, they were exposed to 120 Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors and all got funded. Half are already profitable, one has been acquired.</p>
</font></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK10"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" shape="rect" name="Project"><img alt="Project" title="Project" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/ui/images1/s.gif"></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Profiles </strong></span></span><br><ul><li style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Russel Simmons</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">: early employee/lead technical architect at paypal, former CTO and co-founder of <a href="http://Yelp.com"><a href="http://Yelp.com">Yelp.com</a></a></span></li><li style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Jawed Karim</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">: cofounder of Youtube, early employee at Paypal and angel investor </span></li><li style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Paul Bragel</b></span><span lang="EN-US">: partner at i/o ventures, co-founder of Leforum (online forums), co-founder/CEO of Meetro (location based social networking) and former CEO of Paragon Five (game development </span></li><li style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Mbwana Alliy</b></span><span lang="EN-US">: associate at i/o ventures, co-founder of Yellow Masai, Board Member at Envaya</span></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK11"><tbody><tr><td style="color:#555555;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;" rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="left"><font color="#555555" size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" style="color:#555555;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;">
<h2><span style="color: blue ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; font-size: 14pt;" track="on" shape="rect" href="http://www.savannaea.com" linktype="link"><a shape="rect" name="About"><img alt="About" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/ui/images1/s.gif" title="About"></a></span><span lang="EN-US"><a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" track="on" shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=s7ex7gdab&et=1104075092791&s=2&e=001LkemXGxNndRwieamFDSg-28KF4p6pur6NV9Eae9owOcww3AY2cso576Gf393djoJx6m60nyitHExZ9VVDDin1bhFx3iXQELCX0WYQ9X1tzU=" linktype="link" target="_blank">About Kenya ICT Board</a></span></h2>
The Kenya ICT Board was established by HE President Mwai Kibaki, as a state corporation under the State Corporations Act Cap. 446 on 19th February 2007. <br><br>The Kenya ICT Board's mission is to champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment. <br><br>Its vision is that Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub by 2030. <br><br>The Kenya ICT Board mandate is to:
<ul><li>Market: Positioning and promoting Kenya as an ICT destination (locally and internationally), especially promoting Business process Outsourcing (BPO) and Offshoring.</li><li>Advise: Advise the government on all relevant matters pertaining to the development and promotion of ICT industries in the country</li><li>Build Capacity: Providing government and other stakeholders with skills, capacity and funding for anchor implementation of ICT projects for development.</li><li>Manage Projects: Coordinating, directing and implementing anchor ICT projects in development.</li></ul><br></font></td></tr></tbody></table></td>
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