Innovating for the Citizen

Paul Kukubo
CEO, Kenya ICT Board
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 Welcome and Thank you
• Our Guests
• Our Title sponsor
• Our sponsors
• Our Judges for the Innovation awards
• Our participants in the awards
 Why are we here?
• To know each other
• To share knowledge and best practices
• To be inspired
• To re-energise and refocus

• To have a good time

 Why does the Board do this?
• Our Vision:
– Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT Hub
• Our Mission:
– To champion and actively enable Kenya to
adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of
partnerships, investments and infrastructure
growth for socio economic enrichment
 Our programs
Public Sector E-Procurement
Digitization and Land Digitization
Infrastructure Judiciary Digitization

Pasha (Digital Villages)

Kennet
Digital Inclusion Govnet
Laptops for Universities
KTCIP
Local applications
development support
Local Content Content support
development
Entrepreur support
Country Content Strategy

Financials
Public Sector Shared
HR Procurement, IT Help
Services Desk, License Mangement

International Marketing
BPO/ITES Market Local Outsourcing
Marketing
Development Business Parks
BPO capacity support
 The Infocom Industry Sector
ingredients

•• Malili
Malili Technopolis
Technopolis
•• Other Software Parks
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Bandwidth Subsidy
Subsidy
•• Establishment
Establishment of
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Multimedia University

Capacity

•• Incubation
• Centre
Centre of
of excellence
excellence
• Software
Software Standards
Standards
•• Direct
Direct matchmaking
matchmaking Sector and
•• Multi-agency Skills Country
Taskforce
Taskforce Positioning
• Local
Local MNC
MNC relationship
relationship
building
• International
International marketing
marketing
•• Global
Global benchmarking
benchmarking
•• Government outsourcing

The Kenya ICT Board

 4 Ps of innovation
• Value of Innovation talks of population,
penetration, price, and purchase
frequency.
• Scott Anthony is the Managing Director of
Innosight Ventures. Scott has written three
books on innovation, the latest being 
The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Unc
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Kenya Global Competitiveness Index (WEF)
GCI 2010–2011.......................................................106 ......3.6
GCI 2009–2010 (out of 133)........................................ 98 ........3.7
GCI 2008–2009 (out of 134).......................................93 ........3.8
Basic requirements......................................................126........3.5
1st pillar: Institutions ................................................... 123 ........3.2
2nd pillar: Infrastructure..................................................102 ........3.0
3rd pillar: Macroeconomic environment .......................128 ........3.5
4th pillar: Health and primary education .......................121 ........4.4
Efficiency enhancers..........................................................79 ........3.9
5th pillar: Higher education and training.........................96 ........3.6
6th pillar: Goods market efficiency...................................88 ........4.0
7th pillar: Labor market efficiency ....................................46 ........4.6
8th pillar: Financial market development.........................27 ........4.7
9th pillar: Technological readiness.................................101........3.1
10th pillar: Market size........................................................74 ........3.5
Innovation and sophistication factors ............................58 ........3.6
11th pillar: Business sophistication..................................62 ........4.0
12th pillar: Innovation..........................................................56 ........3.3
 Innovation
• Booz & Company’s annual study of the
world’s biggest R&D spenders shows
why highly innovative companies are
able to consistently outperform. Their
secret? They’re good at the right things,
not at everything.
 Need Seekers 
• actively and directly engage current and
potential customers to shape new
products and services based on superior
end-user understanding, and strive to be
the first to market with those new
offerings.
 Market Readers
• Watch their customers and competitors
carefully, focusing largely on creating
value through incremental change and by
capitalizing on proven market trends
 Technology Drivers
• Follow the direction suggested by their
technological capabilities, leveraging
their investment in research and
development to drive both breakthrough
innovation and incremental change
• often seeking to solve the unarticulated
needs of their customers via new
technology.
 ICT Board Global conference
(Bellagio 1) conclusion
• A globally competitive ICT partner
gifted with entrepreneurial spirit and
able to translate emerging market
needs and connect them with
demanding multinationals
 In Kenya we celebrate
• Ushahidi
– The top 20 most innovative companies in the
world by MIT’s Technology Review Magazine
• Virtual City
– Winner of USD 1M top prize in the Nokia Global
Challenge
• MPESA
• Mkesho
– For their strategy to
 Thank You
• Paul Kukubo
• CEO
• Kenya ICT Board
• paulkukubo@ict.go.ke