Innovating and scaling of startups in emerging technology districts in East Africa and The role of ICT in grassroots innovation and entrepreneurship

Emma (originally from Tanzania) works as an expert in innovation and development at the
Finnish Development NGOs Platform in Helsinki, Finland. Her work focuses on promoting the
use of technological solutions among NGOs and supporting Finnish organizations including their
local East African partners in networking, partnerships, and collaborations with other players of
East African innovation ecosystems. She has worked in partnership with many startups
and innovation hubs for 13 years.

Virtual 66th Graduation Ceremony

The University of Nairobi wishes to inform students from all the colleges who qualified for the award of various degrees and diplomas at the end of last academic year (2020/2021) and members of the public, that the 66th Graduation Ceremony will be held VIRTUALLY on Friday, December 17, 2021 commencing at 8.00 a.m. at the Great Court. The event will be streamed live through the following links; www.uonbi.ac.ke/livestream and facebook.com/uonbi.ac.ke

Entrepreneurship talk on Networks and Cloud Services

Engineer Henry Njoroge is an entrepreneur who provides ICT networks and cloud services. He has an ISP and does major ICT projects through his companies. He is currently researching on and implementing a cloud-based market platform in the mold of Jumia. This is in response to the emerging platform economy and what drives it. 
Eng. Henry Njoroge has been invited to share with the Department of Computing and Informatics students' experiences on this platform, which they have developed from scratch and has now hit the market.