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In my view, the movement has been too electronic. Whatever is shared needs to move to the ground, to the soil, to offices, to learning institutions in more ways. I therefore posit that the challenges that the networks face include:
1. Collaborating…
Meeting people sharing personal views, at times shouting has made me learn and capture so much that has shaped my practice in consulting and working for communities. I have slowly started making the telecentre a tool of community development and exp…
This may not sound very nice I know but the telecentre.org is not very grassroots focused, it is still a club of the ICT savvy and the networked. At the country level the network should have activities that are seen to be focused on local telecentre…
In many African countries much of what happens is driven by the government. Promoting the use of ICTs at the grassroots calls for investment that general fund raising may not meet. There is need to promote telecentre.org to be seen as an asset donor…
The discussions on the various forums have been too much technology leaning. We are failing to tap the knowledge behind the various experts involved in utilizing technology in their various daily activities. For this reason, there is need to focus m…
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- The categories that best represent me (select all that apply). Note that you can create a separate profile for your organization:
- Academic/research, Nonprofit organization, Telecentre
- Organization
- VACID Africa
- Job Title
- Value Chain Analyst
- About Me (biography and organization description)
- About Kiringai,
Kiringai is a Telecentre enthusiast, a Rural Finance and Cooperative Business Consultant, an Agricultural Products Value Chain Analyst, a Commonwealth Certified Company Director and a trainer in corporate governance; he sits on the board of a number of companies. He is also a development consultant using his strength in corporate governance in public and private organizations to promote probity in the management of such institutions. He is well versed with the integration of ICT and Value addition to community owned SME institutions at the grassroots level. He spearheads the integration of agricultural value chains optimization with value addition and cottage industry development for which he has launched an Africa-wide NGO, VACID Africa, to promote value addition and cottage industry development. He is skilled in community based financial systems delivery through microfinance and cooperatives and has designed a national community finance model which was adopted by the Kenya Parliament to become a Constituency Development Fund for Kenya. He has also designed the mechanism for the creation of public funds starting with the Water Services Trust Fund, the Youth Enterprise Development Fund, and Women Development Fund. His value chain focus has culminated to the creation of Value Addition and Cottage Industry Development (VACID –Africa) Initiative for which he is the Board Chair.
Kiringai is a process consultant and ICT-Business integration expert currently working to create a Kenya-wide e-marketplace websites one for the agricultural sector and the other for the country’s development in general, which will promote international trading for African value added produce.
As international consultant in SMEs, Kiringai is always keen in the promotion of governance systems that deliver support to all stakeholders. He registered as a CGAP IS Fund Consultant promoting the use of ICT in the microfinance sector. He has offered consulting in Donor Programme formulation that seeks to mainstream SME in their effort to focus on pro-poor initiatives. He is a social entrepreneur in his own right with his exploits visibly demonstrated in the businesses that he has founded that touch on start-ups/incubatees, communities, and rural development at www.willpower.co.ke and www.octagon.co.ke.
About VACID Africa
VACID Africa is a non-governmental organization (NGO) created in 2007 in order to spearhead the development of value addition and cottage industries at the grassroots level. In doing this, the key objective is to contribute to employment creation in the rural areas and income generation for farmers and other rural people. Value addition includes any activity that leads to an increase in the price a farmer receives for what he sells or to a decrease in the cost of the inputs and services he buys. Value addition therefore includes activities before and post-harvest that result in higher value for the farmer’s produce. Typically one thinks of activities such as cleaning, grading, packaging, storage and processing as adding value to farmers’ produce. However, the term covers much more.
Value Chain Approach
In the context of VACID programmes, the starting point for value addition processes is the activities farmers are already engaged in. The idea is to support farmers improve from their level (bottom-up) rather than force ideas onto them (top-down). Given that different farmers and communities are active with different products, there are varieties of opportunities for value addition and cottage industries for different farmers/communities. Farmers do not operate in a vacuum but depend on the support of a variety of service providers, both public and private, from pre-production to post-harvest. VACID works along a commodity’s value chain and interacts with the relevant actors along the chain, from production of raw produce to the marketing of the final valued added product and the final engagement of payment systems and processes.
- Areas of interest/expertise and types of services provided:
- Telecentre Sustainability
Agricultural Value Chains
Integration of ICT to Agricultural Value Chains
Sustainable Livelihoods
- Website
- http://www.vacidafrica.or.ke
- Email (please note that this website is public, including your profile information)
- kiringai@vacidafrica.or.ke
- Phone
- +254722800986
- Street Address
- Nyaku House, Argwings Kodhek Road, Hurlingham, Naironbi
- City (or closest town or municipality)
- Nairobi
- Country
- Kenya
- Region
- Eastern & Southern Africa
- Languages (in order of preference):
- English
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Kibwezi Community Makes Early Start in Commodity Support Microfinance
Dear Friends,
Telecenter.org has requested that my blogposts be presented for an ongoing contest, I therefore welcomng those of you who are my friends to provide their stories in the site. There is potential to become recognised as a blogger.
The emergence of new issues to share on this forum seem to be emerging naturally!
The Chair to the Value Chain Cooperative that we are in the process of creating visited my office yesterday. He had traveled for over 200km using public means to c… Continue
Telecenter.org has requested that my blogposts be presented for an ongoing contest, I therefore welcomng those of you who are my friends to provide their stories in the site. There is potential to become recognised as a blogger.
The emergence of new issues to share on this forum seem to be emerging naturally!
The Chair to the Value Chain Cooperative that we are in the process of creating visited my office yesterday. He had traveled for over 200km using public means to c… Continue
Posted on May 4, 2009 at 11:00pm —
VACID Africa-Kibwezi Value Chain Cooperative Makes Water and Irrigation Their Concern
As indicated in my last Blog, I visited Kibwezi in the company of an irrigation expert, a monitoring and evaluation expert (both from our partner Cardno Agrisystems EA). We had briefing on what is happening on the tree planting and formation or Melia volkensii from the ToTs we had earlier trained jointly with the Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI) and University of Nairobi (UoN).
We arrived late on Wednesday in Kibwezi and had our own experiences of road blockages as the new Momba… Continue
We arrived late on Wednesday in Kibwezi and had our own experiences of road blockages as the new Momba… Continue
Posted on May 3, 2009 at 2:00am — 2 Comments
Community Enterprises as a Basis for Telecentre Establishment
Today I will leave Nairobi to visit one of Kenya's driest districts-Kibwezi District. The challenge in this District is not that there is no water that can be tapped to irrigate the perennially dry district but that rains come, create floods which then joins others collected upstream to just pass by and end in the Indian Ocean, where it helps no-one. It pains to note that a community with so much land can become perennial beneficiaries of food aid.
As is the spirit in our work at WillPower, we… Continue
As is the spirit in our work at WillPower, we… Continue
Posted on April 29, 2009 at 1:00am —
ICT in Collective Action of Communities Backed by Local Service Providers
This is my first Blog and for this reason I would like to dedicate it to what I do through ICT and Agricultural Value Addition for the communities I have worked with in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Eritrea.
I work with a number of individuals mentored through my business and whom I support through a not for profit organziation VACID Africa...
The use of ICT among many community institutions has been a challenge. Community institutions shy away from technology rela… Continue
I work with a number of individuals mentored through my business and whom I support through a not for profit organziation VACID Africa...
The use of ICT among many community institutions has been a challenge. Community institutions shy away from technology rela… Continue
Posted on April 25, 2009 at 11:00am —
Comment Wall (8 comments)
- At 2:08am on October 15, 2009,
Seuwandi Yapa said…
- Dear Friends,
Hope you have received my message :))
Best,
Seuwandi
- At 10:05am on May 16, 2009,
Rabson Mwale said… - Glad to be on the telecentre we have started the value chain concepts and in January the whole we were in Mozambique. Need more information on how best i can utilise this system.
- At 10:00am on May 16, 2009,
Rabson Mwale said…
- Glad to hear join the telecentre ah we have already started implementing the value chains and in January we were in Mozambique. I need more information on how best i can utilise this system. What are the does and dontsneed more information.
- At 5:15am on May 7, 2009,
Dr Ashish Kumar Verma said… - hi
- At 5:14am on May 7, 2009,
Dr Ashish Kumar Verma said…
- Hello Kiringai, I am doing MBA in development & sustainable finance. presently I am working on a project "Alternate channels of credit(micro) delivery"and I have to use ICT for this purpose.
I am very much curious about your community based financial model could you please tell me something more about that
- At 3:24pm on May 4, 2009,
simon pierre YONTU said…
merci pour les gentils mots de bienvenues en kiswahili it is a great pleasure for me to joindyou in this huge opportunity to help peoples to really understandtheir selves by our discussons
and eschanges
thanks once more
merci beaucoup
- At 3:18am on November 12, 2008,
Sandra Nassali said… - Hello Kamau,am really glad that you have already started to participant on the site actively by inviting new people to join. Please keep this up.
Sandra
- At 3:31am on November 10, 2008,
Sandra Nassali said…
- Hello Kamau,welcome to telecentre.org. We are glad to have you here. Please follow http://telecentrecommunity.ning.com/notes/Getting_Started for your orientation at the site. The East African Community has a group i.e. East African Telecentre Practitioners- you are welcome to join us. Feel free to contact me in case of any thing.
Best wishes,
Sandra
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