<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><head><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:OfficeDocumentSettings><o:AllowPNG/><o:PixelsPerInch>96</o:PixelsPerInch></o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--></head><body><div class="ydp3d89dbd1yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px;">Listers, worth attending..</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px;">===</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px;">COVID19 pandemic has accelerated technological adoption and fundamentally transformed how we live, learn and work. These rapid changes have largely been catalyzed by the prowess of innovative young people in the continent, leveraging on their unique talents towards address the direct and indirect challenges proffered by COVID19.</span><br style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px;">The Government of Kenya, in recognition of this potential, gazetted an ICT Committee on COVID19, that has in the last several months, received presentations on technologies, their potential use, challenges in their adoption and what are the potential enablers for their scale-up.</span><br style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px;">One key characteristic of successful technological adoption in this period of rapid change can be attributed to multi-stakeholder collaboration and co-creation. While response to COVID19 was primarly a Government prerogative, innovators, especially within ICT, creating unique collaborations with Ministries, Departments and Agencies across the Continent to deliver digital public goods.</span><br style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px;">These collaborations have re-emphasized the importance of the African Technology Ecosystem and its ability to respond to crisis. It has also affirmed the importance of building resilient technology based SMEs: through policy and regulatory enablers, capacity and finance.</span><br style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px;">The Building Forward Stronger Showcase will feature some notable collaborations from South Africa, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Ghana and Namibia, with a view to provide a practical understanding on how to build resilient and mutual beneficial collaborations between multiple stakeholders.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px;">===</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px;">Flyer:</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px;"><img title="Inline image" alt="Inline image" src="cid:b5ef0d60-6979-7df5-2836-afb3cf833ce8@yahoo.com" class="yahoo-inline-image yahoo-loading" draggable="false" style="max-width: 800px;" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true" data-id="<b5ef0d60-6979-7df5-2836-afb3cf833ce8@yahoo.com>"><br><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px;">Registration Link below, feel free to spread/share with your networks<img title="Inline image" alt="Inline image" src="" class="ydp3d89dbd1yahoo-inline-image ydpd24917eyahoo-loading" style="max-width: 794px; width: 100%;" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true" data-id="<ad1152cf-fd0c-49a3-f20e-d9ad1ca479b5@yahoo.com>"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4Sc-pbuGQPWoF52QuyaWpA" class="ydp3d89dbd1enhancr_card_2832655400" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Welcome! 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