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The First Ever ICT Innovation Forum Kenya Hopes To Grow the Use and Funding Of Home-Grown Technology Solutions

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Kenya is set to hold its first ever ICT Innovation forum on 2nd and 3rd March, 2015. The ICT authority announced this yesterday and hopes the forum will bring together novel technology-based ideas, solutions and practices.

The event will bring together ICT innovators, investors, development agencies, academia, multi-nationals and local entrepreneurs. This event is organized through a consortium of public and private players and aims to discuss the challenges Kenyan innovators face and the opportunities ICT presents. Innovators will also have an option to showcase their ICT solutions at the event.

“The Innovation Forum and Expo is a unique opportunity for information sharing and co-operation between the public and private sector on emerging technologies and innovations. While we are all in agreement that tech-enterprises need to work more closely and grow, our aim to make all these great ideas commercially viable,” said Victor Kyalo, Chief Executive Officer-ICT Authority.

In line with the National ICT Master plan the Authority in collaboration with the Ministry of ICT seeks to boost opportunities of Kenyan innovators by supporting the growth of locally developed solutions,” added Mr. Kyalo.

The 2-day forum aims at:

  1. Sharing game-changing innovative ideas among high-level stakeholders within key sectors of the economy such as manufacturing, tourism, financial sector, health, agriculture, education, transport, energy and water.
  2. Creating a consensus around the state of ICT innovation, the prevailing challenges and distilling actionable solutions
  3. Defining next steps on how to unlock value in the ICT innovation space
  4. Pooling for the FIRST time innovators that will help to create the next big nation

Among the key discussions topics are promoting Buy Kenya IT, build Kenya IT, Unlocking Capital, Talent development and employment, Innovation, Research and Development, growing IT exports and the place of incubation and accelerators in the innovation ecosystem.

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