SME Networks of Networks, Strathmore and Office of the President
24 November 2020: Panelist at roundtable the SME Advisory, Office of the president. Also were Fridah Owinga, Anne Lawi, Pat Awuor and Geoffrey Otieno
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Podcast
December 23, 2020: In a podcast Tambali, David Ogiga explains his role in stemming Covid-19 challenge through innovation run hubs and how nearly the entire Kenyan ecosystem was able to rally for a good course. Listen in- https://www.buzzsprout.com/1545223/6980551-innovation-and-opportunities-seeing-through-the-mask
UD Tech Farm System Winning at Global stage
UD Tech Farm System were winners in Diamond Challenge. The global competition is organized the University of Delaware’s Horn Entrepreneurship Challenge every year. The team of Rozalia Chao, Happiness Wanjiru, Sophie Mghoi, and Hanifa Mutua had programmed a series of sensors with the Arduino system that test soil chemistry bringing true results. The innovation […]
State of NGO Public-Private Partnership
17 November 2020 Partnerships and collaboration between NGOs and the private sector in Kenya continue to grow. There is an increasing emphasis on joint activities that are of strategic value to both partners. Combining experiences and a pool of resources, among others, allow NGOs and the private sector to mitigate challenges and provide success that […]
Countrywide Hubs Annual General Meeting
On 19 December 2020, In his capacity as Chairman of Association of Countrywide Innovation Hubs, David chaired last year’s meeting bringing together 26 member hubs to take stock of key achievements. Top of this was the successful The Great Covid -19 Innovation Challenge in collaboration with Konza Technopolis, an increase of membership to 26, and […]
Annual Africa Conference on Social Entrepreneurship
On 27 November 2020, Tangaza University and Ashoka annually convene social entrepreneurship dialogue in order to amplify the impacts and best practices. David Ogiga was the moderator for the panel Impact Investing and Grant Making.
Establishing Sote Fund
An initiative of Sote Hub, Sote Fund is an investment vehicle for viable startups coming through our pipeline work that has so far impacted over 10,000 students from universities, colleges, and high schools and out of school youth and incubated 40 startups. The greatest challenge for Kenyan startups today is how to access the funding […]
Google online safety Training- Grow with Google
Children and young people are vulnerable to many risks while online including cyberbullying, internet predators, phishing, exposure to inappropriate content, hate speech & recruitment violent extremist groups. In 2017, Kenya lost about USD 212 million to cybersecurity. In a project funded Google, Sote Hub organized a series of Online Roadshows on how to […]
Code op Subversions series @ Rural Innovation with Sote Hub Entrepreneurs
The founders of Ndovu Care, UD Tech Farm Systems and Techskilld shared their journey as founders of the Startups and their challenges of running businesses as young persons in rural area and what the future holds for their innovations. This dialogue was organized Code Op. CodeOp is an international tech school founded and led […]
Afya Boost joins the Great Covid-19 Accelerator
One of our startups, Afya Boost made into the top 15 out of 300 innovators that responded to the Great Covid-19 Hackathon organized Konza Technopolis and the Association of Countrywide Innovation Hubs. As part of the award, they are undergoing a 3 months business acceleration. This project is supported the kind financial contribution […]
