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 […]
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.
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 […]
On the 17th of February, Kajire Girls high school which is among our sponsored schools in Taita Taveta emerged the winners at the Diamond Africa challenge, held in Elgeyo Marakwet. The competition, run Startup Africa essentially connects, mentors and builds skills for the students, youth and women besides spurring the entrepreneurship engagement. ‘’We have […]
Kenya welcomes His Excellency Andrej Kiska, President of the Slovak Republic. During his visit the Slovak President engaged not only in bilateral talks aimed to boost Slovak- Kenya cooperation, but also met with tech and start-up communities. As entrepreneur and philanthropist he showed a lot of interest in innovation and left a powerful message for […]
The Slovakian Ambassador to Kenya, His Excellency Frantisek Dlhopolcek recently paid a visit to our Schools and Sote Hub projects in Taita Taveta. The envoy was accompanied Ms. Izabela Nagyova, the Development Cooperation Counsellor at the Nairobi embassy. Sote ICT project has been sponsored Slovak Aid since 2010. To date, the project works […]
The world today looks for solutions to the youth unemployment. In Kenya for example, 81 percent of workers are employed in the informal sector and jobs for young people are scarce and fragile. On the 21st and 22nd of May 2016, Sote Hub welcomed visitors and friends from UN Habitat and Kiambu County for a […]
What a day!! On 23rd of January 2016 Sote Hub hosted a start-up presentation event. This happened to be the second start-up evaluation. James Ndiga and Stanley Ndagi were the judges this time round. A total of eleven start-up were evaluated. The day started at a rather slow pitch as many people had not yet […]
