We did it!!

4th week in Kenya - We did it  - Our Final Presentation to the Ministry of Higher Education, Science & Technology

Friday was our turn for our presentation. We were all ready and set by8:45 a.m. We were all a bit nervous, as the room filled. There weren't enough chairs for all the attendees, so they had to bring in chairs from another conference room. The tension built until it was finally time to start at about 9:15 am. We were on the 10th floor of Jogoo House, the home of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science & Technology. Our mission was complete - we were presenting our final report on a framework to capture and track innovations in Kenya.

Our report recommends five main areas of focus for innovations in Kenya:

1. Integrate Industry with Academia
2. Promote an Incentive Regime to drive and share Innovations
3. Establish the Kenya National Innovation Agency (KENIA) - which was the part I did
4. Drive Commercialization of Innovations
5. Innovation Performance Metrics.

We call them the "Big Five" as a play on words around the ultimate safari goal - which we achieved on our weekends off. Each of us including Richard from the Ministry presented on of the big fives. More than 50 people were in that room from different organizations, ministries, stakeholders and task force.
The chairman of the MoHEST expressed his satisfaction with the presentation, the content and the report. He said directly "this is an Eye Opener for Kenya and we will use it not from Monday morning as recommended but from today" That just made my day and the entire effort the last many months and mostly the last 4 weeks here in Kenya. The footprint is made!!!!




Henriette