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Dr Ndemo @ Skunkworks
The PS for Information and Communication did a talk at the 4th Aug meeting at Telposta towers 4th floor. There was also Joe Mucheru (Google Lead, EA) and Bret Bullington, a VC working in the Silicon Valley. Quite an interesting talk and discussion thereafter, with lots of challenging and thought provoking remarks from Dr Ndemo. [...]
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He started by giving a brief history of his time in Africa, starting with his stint at the Royal Marines, to a Security Consultant in the Sudan and Somalia, before settling in Kenya doing some import and export business. While involved in business, he realised that while using the KENPAC service for sending and receiving [...]
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Why the 9 to 5 Office Worker Will Become a Thing of the Past Very interesting read here. I had talked about something similar a while ago .. http://blog.josiahmugambi.com/2006/04/knowledge-worker.html
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BarCamp Nairobi
BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. Saturday 31st March 2007 at the University of Nairobi. S0me of the possible features: Startup Presentations – Ayo Africa, MamaMikes, Possibly – Stockskenya.com (by [...]
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Do you have 5 years experience
“Come back next week” or “you must have a five year experience.” That is the tune being sang out there if you are a job seeker. Jobholders seem not to care about the hundreds of miles you have covered to knock at their door. They don’t mind whether you borrow fare everyday to the city. [...]
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Over 100 000 visitors descend on Nairobi for the WSF conference starting Saturday. 100000. That is more people than are found of most constituencies in Kenya. I suspect we shall be seeing very serious traffic jams snarling up our already congested (and potholed) roads over the next two weeks.That’s the downside The upside: 100000 more [...]
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The top 100 companies to work for in USA are listed here. I’m wondering if anyone has done a top 20 even for companies to work for in Kenya.. I’ve a friend working at Google and he absolutely loves working there.
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Job/Consultancy Opportunity
Google is looking to hire a business consultant to help them evaluate investment opportunities for them within East Africa. The person must be based in Nairobi (they will work remotely with the rest of Google’s Africa project team.) Google has successfully set up similar consultancies in Egypt and Nigeria. Google is looking for a dynamic [...]
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u go for an interview with a stock pile of papers showing that you are more or less giving Dexter (the boy genius who lives by the laws of science, and hates his sister DeeDee ) competition. So u think u match einstein’s IQ, what with all the papers nicely tucked in your portfolio and [...]
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The Knowledge Worker
I suspect this is a radical view, but anyway here goes: I think the way we work, even in Kenya will be very different come 10 years. I personally hate an eight to five, with one hour break for lunch, especially knowing that my most unproductive hour is between 2-3 when my tummy is busy [...]
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