8:45 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:
- Integrate Industry with Academia
- Promote an Incentive Regime to drive and share Innovations
- Establish the Kenya National Innovation Agency (KENIA)
- Drive Commercialization of Innovations
- Innovation Performance Metrics.
Here I am doing the part of the presentation where we link the Big Five Focus Areas into the overall Innovation Framework for Kenya.
The good news is that it went very well! The Secretary for the Ministry stood up at the end of our presentation and thanked us for our hard work. Then he did something unexpected..... in front of a room full of 50 people, he committed to undertaking our main recommendation.... to establish a new body of government called the Kenya National Innovation Agency. Even better than his commitment was the audience reaction: spontaneous applause!
The secretary passed the microphone around the room and asked for comments and questions from the audience. There were alot of positive comments and some really good questions. The session went for three hours!!!
Here is a picture at the end of the presentation where our team is presenting the Secretary with a copy of our presentation and also our final report.
So we have successfully completed our mission for the IBM Corporate Service Corps! We have buy-in from our client and a promise to engage in our recommendations. Tonight we celebrate!
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