This news is all over the Kenyan web.
Incase you just came into the picture, AlKags has more details. What I find quite interesting is that such a process by a large corporate as Safaricom is finally opened up to the ICT public in Kenya. Seems they receive about 200 proposal a week from Kenyan innovators and this process is quite difficult to manage. I can only imagine the sheer efforts needed to sort between the serious and the not too serious innovators. There are many categories that innovators could be suggesting proposals on but not having a proper conduit and monitoring system in place to pick the proposals that are truely innovative and also make business sense could effectively ruin any chances for further mobile development and applications.
I believe those who make the process and are appointed to the Board will have their hands full while also not be very popular with local innovators. There are business decisions to be made between viability versus innovation.
We are destined to see a changed Safaricom and an improvement of avenues for local innovators. I'm keen on who gets appointed, whether they really understand innovation and whether Safaricom made the right decision on such appointees.
I nominated someone today who really represents the balance between innovation and business.
Have you nominated someone? If not, please do it here.
Monday, 9 August 2010
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