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• August 23, 2009
• 21:23

  The Non-Pursuit of Unsustainable Happiness

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  Send this article to Twitter!This post is prompted by a piece I read in another Kenyan blog called “Lovelymoney”.  In the post, the blog author talks about the plans he and his wife had when they first moved to America and those plans involved getting their education, saving up some money and eventually moving back [...]
• August 02, 2009
• 22:36

  AGOA: What’s All The Excitement About?

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  Send this article to Twitter!So, I guess everyone’s getting excited about this AGOA conference and I’m just trying to figure out why. In preparation for this post, I went to the AGOA site and tried to read what it was all about, but was forced to stop mid-stream when I realized that my eyes were [...]
• June 08, 2009
• 12:01

  Swimming Towards The Tide

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  ** I just joined twitter and you can follow some of these posts here on my link at twitter.com/kenentrepreneur.  I’ll primarily be using it to get instantenous viewpoints from different people, especially on topics that I’m interested in like Kenya and entrepreneurship.  So, feel free to follow me and/or tweet me. Now onto the topic at [...]
• June 03, 2009
• 8:33

  Not Your Parents Economy

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  I was reading a post on Kenyan Pundit about more and more people deciding to relocate back to “Africa” after having lived in the west for several years (I tried to leave a comment, but for whatever reason, it wasn’t posted, which is unfortunate because I think that post could have [...]
• March 22, 2009
• 23:23

  Producing “Stuff”

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  Now, that the stock markets around the world seem to be collapsing, I want to return to talking about the production of real things (or “stuff”), Why? because (as we are painfully discovering), real economies are created by those who produce real things, not those who shuffle “paper” money around the world that’s created from [...]
• February 20, 2009
• 15:10

  UBS: United Bank of Secrecy

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  There’s an interesting story in the NYT about UBS agreeing to give up the names of it’s customers who for years, have used the bank’s secret accounts to hide money away from tax enforcers.  I guess as this economic crunch begins to take hold and as governments keep getting more desperate for cash, they are [...]
• February 18, 2009
• 13:35

  Naseem Taleb: Stop Trying to predict the future

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  
• February 06, 2009
• 12:52

  Surviving The Economic Tsunami: Mta Do?

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  I want to move away from talking about politicians because they are going to continue to do whatever it is they want to do and at this point, we just have to move on and start worrying about ourselves. So, I’m going to assume that most of the people who read this blog are not politicians [...]
• February 01, 2009
• 12:42

  Looking For Cheap Labor Wherever It Is…

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  This is a good video that explains the inter-connected nature of this global economy. It’s all about finding the cheapest labor sources wherever in the world they lie. If the service can be provided over a computer, the job will most probably be moved to India. If the goods can be manufactured in China, that’s where the [...]

• January 09, 2009
• 0:23

  of handjobs and recessions

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  Global Economy  

  Yup, there is a recession in the US. What better way to gauge this than the porn industry's looming financial crisis? Read Gathara's post here.
  And Amina shares some of her personal stories: friends who have lost jobs.

  A friend was in Auburn Hills, Michigan, a few days ago. In December, Chrysler shut down its plants, albeit temporarily. It resulted in the loss of 46000 mostly low income jobs. What she saw shocked her. A city that was dead: it looked like one of those ghostowns in Western movies. She describes old burnt out buildings, and a growing underclass.

  
  

  

  

• December 17, 2008
• 8:36

  Peter Schiff: Part Two

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  If you have a retirement account that is losing value, you must, must, watch this video.  Had you watched it six years ago, you’d probably have been able to avoid some losses. However, even if you don’t have a retirement account, you should listen to this video because I think it explains very well, why people [...]
• 8:35

  Introducing Peter Schiff: Part 1

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  This video is unbelievable.  Here is Peter Schiff, the head of Euro-Pacific capital, predicting this financial crisis SIX YEARS AGO.  Like Roubini, people laughed at this guy then, but they’re not laughing anymore.
• December 09, 2008
• 11:58

  Gone With The Wind: Jobs, That Is…

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  I was reading an interesting commentary in some paper the other day where someone talked about the on-going layoff’s that are taking place around the world. This person was basically looking at the layoff’s from a point of view I have yet to hear spoken about.  He or she was saying that in America especially, the [...]
• December 01, 2008
• 18:38

  Dr. Doom

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  Let’s hear what Dr. Doom, aka Dr. Nouriel Roubini has to say {again} about this economic crisis.  It’s amazing how his predictions keep coming true. His next prediction? deflation (someone please feel free to explain that). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6cyOtGnhyQ

• November 01, 2008
• 22:36

  Analysing the current financial crisis

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  Global Economy  

  Over the past few days, I've been collecting a few articles that have struck me as relevant in the (large) body of articles purporting to explain the current financial crisis, learn from it or otherwise propose solutions. I may have missed some as I have had limited internet access lately, but the selection below strikes me as representative of a rather wide swathe of «Serious» opinion, and indicative of the kind of narrative war being fought:
  
  Want more?

  

  

• October 29, 2008
• 21:27

  Nouriel Roubini

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  As I’ve said before, this professor of economics, Nouriel Roubini, is one of the few people who predicted this global financial crisis and he’s saying the worst is yet to come. This is a 5 part series. So, if you want to watch all of it, just google his name)
• October 03, 2008
• 9:15

  What is “Money” Afterall?

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  What is money? I pose this question in light of the current global financial crisis which is increasing inflation all around the world.  I mean, many people think that money has this infinite value, but in this era of inflation, should this crisis become a lesson about why one should always convert this “paper”  called [...]
• September 10, 2008
• 20:48

  The Coming Economic Tsunami

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  I was having dinner with a good friend the other night and she mentioned that her 401K was taking a hit.  This is the second time she’s mentioned it.  I’m sure others have observed the same thing with their 401k’s. I was talking to yet another friend (who I consider to be a semi-expert on finance) [...]
• August 09, 2008
• 13:00

  The Dragon Must Be Fed

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  There’s an interesting article in Fast Company magazine on China’s foray into Africa. It’s making people nervous: “This commercial invasion is without question the most important development in the sub-Sahara since the end of the Cold War — an epic, almost primal propulsion that is redrawing the global economic map. One former U.S. assistant secretary [...]

• July 30, 2008
• 19:18

  A Macbook Sleeve You Should Buy.

   » ‎ Afromusing

  Tags:  Global Voices  

  When I attended the GV summit I counted myself quite lucky to meet so many bloggers from around the world, including contributors to Global voices online. The gift of a macbook sleeve from Bolivian project ‘Voces Bolivianas’ was one of the many highlights of the summit. It was such a moving gesture that some of us were fighting back tears of appreciation. You see, the Global voices logo was hand-stitched onto the sleeve, and Eduardo and his team lugged this big huge bag all the way from Bolivia to give each one of us a choice between the 15″ sleeve and the smaller 13″ sleeve.

  The sleeve is lovely, it is made from traditional Aguayo textile, and I have to admit I treasure mine a whole lot.
  You can buy one for yourself, and in the process, help support a very worthwhile project that is reaching out to underrepresented groups in Bolivia, getting them to share their opinions online through the use of blogs and other participatory media.
  The colors are just lovely…get one!

  

  PS: Only available in the US…

• June 27, 2008
• 2:53

  GV Summit Budapest

   » ‎ Afromusing

  Tags:  Global Voices  

  
  I am at the Global Voices summit, regarding citizen media, democracy and technology.

  I will be covering the following sessions using the live blogging tool CoveritLive on this blog and also on the GV summit blog. Please bookmark the event homepage [summit08.globalvoicesonline.org]
  - Twitter feed is [twitter.com]
  - The timezone for the live sessions is GMT+1
  June 27, 2008
  11:30 - 13:00 Session 2: “Citizen Media and Online Free Speech”
  MODERATOR: Mary Joyce.
  SPEAKERS: Ory Okolloh (Kenyan Blogger), Wael Abbas (MisrDigital, Egypt), Mehdi Mohseni (jomhour.org, Iran), Amine (digiactive.org, Morocco), Oiwan Lam (Global Voices, Hong Kong), Au Wai Pang (Singapore)
  Citizen media allow for more active and open participation in political processes, but threats of censorship and oppression discourage citizens from expressing their own opinions. This session will present case studies from Kenya, Iran, Egypt, Morocco, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
  

  15:30 -16:30 Session 4: “Frontline Activists meet the Academy: Tools and Knowledge”
  MODERATOR: Ethan Zuckeman.
  SPEAKERS: Roger Dingledine (Tor), Nart Villeneuve (Citizen Lab), Isaac Mao (Digital Nomads project, China), Robert Guerra (Privaterra, Cuba), Danny O’Brien (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
  The tools to circumvent web filtering and other methods of online censorship exist, but they don’t always reach the people who need them as easily as they could. How can we facilitate better coordination between the developers of these tools and the anti-censorship activists that need them? And how do we facilitate the flow of feedback from the activists back to the developers so the latter can design more appropriate tools?

  June 28th 2008
  11:30 - 13:00 Session 2: “The Wired Electorate in Emerging Democracies”
  MODERATOR: Solana Larsen.
  SPEAKERS: Daudi Were (Kenya), Onnik Krikorian (Armenia), Hamid Tehrani (Iran), Luis Carlos Díaz (Venezuela)
  The rise of blogging, social networking and micro-blogging services like Facebook and Twitter, video- and photo-sharing sites like YouTube and Flickr, and the spread of mobile technology have given ordinary citizens the means, at least potentially, to participate more fully in the democratic process. This session looks at the impact these tools have had on recent elections in Kenya, Venezuela, Armenia and Iran and poses the question: is citizen media having an actual impact on democracies in transition?
  

• June 23, 2008
• 15:15

  Outsourcing Your Daily Chores

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  I’ve been thinking about this whole outsourcing issue again (why am I so obsessed with this issue of outsourcing?). Anyway, I was thinking about this issue because for the past two weeks, I have been trying to work on this website and I got stuck. There were some things I needed to do [...]
• May 18, 2008
• 18:47

  Africa’s Backwardness Lies in it’s Culture

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  I was reading an interesting story today in the NYT about Japanese fears that it is no longer churning out enough engineers and this will become a problem if it hopes to remain an advanced nation. Apparently, young Japanese who’ve grown up in a wealthy country, no longer feel the need to go into engineering, [...]

• April 22, 2008
• 8:12

  Re: Understanding Food Prices

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  Global Food crisis  

  The consensus around the world is that there is a food crisis upon us, and that the world simply cannot produce enough food to feed the growing population.

  The New York Times contributes as it continues to substitute hyperbole for information in its reporting on rising food prices:

  Hunger bashed in the front gate of Haiti's presidential palace. Hunger poured onto the streets, burning tires and taking on soldiers and the police. Hunger sent the country's prime minister packing.

  Haiti's hunger, that burn in the belly that so many here feel, has become fiercer than ever in recent days as global food prices spiral out of reach, spiking as much as 45 percent since the end of 2006 and turning Haitian staples like beans, corn and rice into closely guarded treasures.
  

  Read more from Chris Blattman here.

  

  
• April 19, 2008
• 11:25

  Kinda Blah

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  Global Food crisis  

  Kenya has been so dunked in political drama, transport frustration and security chaos in the last few months that it feels really strange when I wake up to no news. Still, there is always something going on.
  
  Bus fares have gone up. I have taken to eating left-over ugali in the morning with bad tasting tea made from tea dust that I buy from a roving vendor because it’s a lot cheaper than what I would get from a regular store. I cannot miss breakfast because the label on my box of medicines says "2 after meals twice a day'. Lunch does not exist in my lifestyle. Dinner is on my mother, if it wasn't for her I would be in a spot of trouble.
  
  Read more from Juliet Mararu here.

  

  
• 11:24

  Here and now; the global food crisis

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  Global Economy  

  My mind has of late been engrossed in such matters as the Safaricom IPO, the Kenyan cabinet fiasco, and the elitism of Senator Obama. The world, meanwhile, is on the brink of a food disaster, such a major one that the very definition of hunger will soon be changed forever.
  

  Images of malnourished children will no longer be the face of starvation. We will instead see food labelled with extraordinarily exorbitant prices, shortages that force even the wealthy into long queues for food and total anarchy as countries in different parts of the world spiral out of control as the hungry demand that they be sated.

  Read more from Brian Mogaka here.
  

  

  

• April 08, 2008
• 7:39

  1-800-Divert-To-Nairobi

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  There’s an interesting article in the Standard about call centres coming to Kenya. I guess this cable line has everyone excited about outsourcing opportunities.  If you are based in America, you’ve pretty much dealt with call centres in India and I know of very few people who are impressed by them (heavy accents, unpleasant personalities, rude, etc, [...]
• March 17, 2008
• 8:01

  Looking For Contributors

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  I’ve been thinking about doing this for awhile and now that the political stuff seems to be dying down, I’d like to invite people to contribute articles on this forum.  So, if you think you have something interesting to say, particularly about business or entrepreneurship in Kenya {or anywhere else} and you don’t want to [...]
• February 29, 2008
• 16:59

  Can Kenya Be “Dubai-iefied”?

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  I just finished reading this great article in Fortune magazine about how Dubai is expanding it’s global reach beyond it’s borders and it’s doing it in poor, third world countries. What caught my attention were some of the countries it has selected: Djibouti and Rwanda. Huh?? (Full article here: Camels, Gorilla’s and skyscrappers) Basically, the government [...]
• December 13, 2007
• 11:09

  India is Hot….

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

    You can’t ignore a country with 500 million potential consumers, can you? World leaders are flocking there trying to get in on all that potential business (Maharaja’s land of gold). Africans always like to inform westerners about the “other” side of Africa (”no, trust me….it’s not all poor”, really, I’m telling you, please believe me, etc, etc…you [...]

• December 05, 2007
• 23:37

  Dec. 8th Global Action Day on Climate Change, & Global Voices Environment Coverage

   » ‎ Afromusing

  Tags:  Global Voices  

  
  As the leaders of the world continue with negotiations in Bali to chart the successor to the Kyoto protocol, there are some major events this week to make a note of. The first - international demonstrations planned by the Global climate campaign around the world. In Kenya, the contacts are listed as

  David Waiganjo dnwaiganjo[at]yahoo.com
  (Inter-Varsity Environment Network and African Youth Initiative on Climate)

  Charity Weru glady333ke[at]yahoo.com
  (Kenya Young Greens)

  Grace Akumu cnaf[at]cnaf.or.ke
  (Executive Director, Climate Network Africa)

  For December 8th there is a plan for a climate parade in Nairobi.

  If you will be attending or have more information, please feel free to comment. I would love to see photos and if you are a Kenyan blogger attending the parade please give me a heads up whenever you write about it. Thank you!
  From KenyanPoet, The Climate change Orchestra will be playing as part of the WAPI event at the British Council. More details here.
  
  For the Africa online crew there is something for you, you can join the Virtual Rally on the same day Dec 8th by writing about climate change. You do not have to alter the tone of your ‘blog voice’, a quip, a video, a rant, your thoughts… You can also sign a petition here.

  At global voices online, we have a special page with links to blogs covering Bali and Climate Change politics, so do check it out. I have been going through the feeds to keep it fresh just for you, so do not miss out on the river of news coming out of Bali. If you are an African blogger writing about the environment, this is the week to do it, Global voices links will show up on the Reuters page. How is that for getting your voice heard!
  (please leave me a note if you write something, email is environment [at] globalvoicesonline [dot] org)

  Quotables from Prof. Wangari Maathai

  * If you don’t raise your voice, then your environmentalism means nothing; it’s mere tokenism or opportunism.

  * The environment is very important in the aspects of peace because when we destroy our resources, they become scarce and we fight over that.

  * We have a special responsibility to the ecosystem of this planet. In making sure that other species survive we will be ensuring the survival of our own.

• October 22, 2007
• 20:11

  Sanjay? Where Did My Job Go?

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  This is a documentary about an American computer programmer who travels to India to find out why so many “American” jobs are being outsourced to that location. The guy is obviously bitter about being laid off and I got no sense from watching this video that he has come to terms with the realities of the [...]
• October 16, 2007
• 21:32

  M-Commerce

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  E-commerce was all about making money on the internet; M-commerce is about making money with mobile phones. This discussion is mainly about India, but the examples could easily be applied to Kenya (btw - how is M-pesa doing?). They are 200 million mobile phone users in India. Wow! How many are there in East Africa?
• October 09, 2007
• 15:22

  Booty Economics: Show me your particulars

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  There’s a hilarious ad that was posted on Craigslist about a woman looking for a rich husband in New York City. Here is the description from the NYT: “Last month on Craigslist.com, someone who described herself as a “spectacularly beautiful” 25-year-old placed a personal ad seeking a husband who made at least $500,000 a year, [...]
• October 03, 2007
• 16:55

  Are You An Income Generator?

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  I was talking to someone the other day about work in general and how safe (or not) most people’s jobs are and she said that in this global economy, your stability at work all comes down to one question: Are you an income generator? if the answer to that question is no, then your job is not [...]

• August 24, 2007
• 11:21

  Bio-diesel; powering growth for tomorrow

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  Global warming  

  Global warming has taken centre stage in discussions on the future of mankind. Climate change and its impact on humans and the environment stand out already as the most pressing problems of our time.
  
  For the already impoverished masses of the developing world, this catastrophe presents also an opportunity. We can ,if prepared, turn a global crisis into an opportunity for change in Kenya and in the whole East African region.
  
  More from Ole Mepukori here.
• July 13, 2007
• 0:07

  Make hay while the sun shines

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  Global warming  

  Peter Ndiangui addresses the need for Kenya to invest in alternative sources of fuel while preserving the environment.
  

  In Kenya for example, Mumias Sugar has already awoken to this reality, and is
  positioning itself to benefit from the ramifications of Kyoto or the son of
  Kyoto. The onset of carbon trading schemes means that there is a direct economic
  value attached to green products, in addition of course to the moral one.

  
  Read more here.

• May 30, 2007
• 11:55

  Warren Buffett

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  I haven’t put a video up in a while and I figured it was time. It’s always interesting to listen to what a Billionaire has to say — so have your fill!
• April 27, 2007
• 8:03

  The World Boink

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  Paul Wolfowitz, the head of the World Bank has been in the news recently under a cloud of allegations that he tried to hook-up his girlfriend with some perks. Anyway, I don’t want to dwell on Wolfowitz’s history of corruption, except to say that I run into an article in Harper’s magazine written by [...]
• April 13, 2007
• 10:35

  This Competitive Global Economy

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  the Global Economy  

  I was just reading an article in the New York Times about Germany’s emergence once again, as a global engineering powerhouse (German Exports). The Germans have always been known for their solid engineering, but the economy took a downturn when East and West unified. The transition was difficult both economically and culturally, but [...]