In a remote village in Tharaka, in the Eastern province of Kenya, severe drought has caused subsistence crops to fail and food prices have skyrocketed, leaving the poorest families hungry.
Mbaka Kathiga is one of about 150 people in her village who is now receiving a monthly cash transfer, roughly the equivalent of US $20, enabling her to buy food on the local market.
Each month, a humanitarian agency automatically... Read more
When most people are asked to identify innovation, they tend to point to a technological gadget, like their mobile phone. This is wholly understandable as they are immediately present and are used every day.
However, a mobile phone is not simply a gadget but it is also a social process. The emergence of both the technology and its use depended on people changing how they communicated as well as with... Read more
Innovation managers (or persons with yet more exotic titles) stalk the corridors and break out spaces of our offices, developing pipelines and processes, adding product or redesigning ways of working (or hoping to), and encouraging us to take risk and be more forgiving of failure.
Is it all the latest hype? It was strategy in the 90s, governance in the 00s, will this decade's buzzword be innovation?
It may be.
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