<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,153)">+1 on the article its quite a sobering write up on innovation and technology, here is an interesting video<font><span style="font-weight:normal"><span id="eow-title" class="" dir="ltr" title="Hardly Working: Start-up Guys"><br>

<br>Hardly Working: Start-up Guys</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMmdl4VltD4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMmdl4VltD4</a></span></font><br><br>"So for one unthinkable moment let’s forget building the next Facebook, 
Google or Apple. Think about using your vast technical knowledge to for 
example, solve the simplest problem Africa faces — service delivery. 
Think of the innovation that would come with that."<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,153)">Gideon Rop.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">

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Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 10:25:23 +0300 (EAT)<br>
From: "Bitange Ndemo" <<a href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a>><br>
To: "Andrea Bohnstedt" <<a href="mailto:andrea.bohnstedt@ratio-magazine.com"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,153);display:inline"></div>

andrea.bohnstedt@ratio-magazine.com</a>><br>
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Subject: Re: [kictanet] Innovationville: Where all the good money<br>
        making African start ups go to die<br>
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Talk about innovation.<br>
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<<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_turere_a_peace_treaty_with_the_lions.html?
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Ndemo.<br>
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> <a href="http://ventureburn.com/2013/04/innovationville-where-all-good-money-making-african-startups-go-to-die/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+memeburncom+%28memeburn%29" target="_blank">http://ventureburn.com/2013/04/innovationville-where-all-good-money-making-african-startups-go-to-die/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+memeburncom+%28memeburn%29</a><br>


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