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Harvard’s Professor Michael Porter to address Tony Elumelu Foundation Interns

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) last Friday announced that its Founding Patron and renowned Harvard Business School Professor Michael E. Porter, will participate in workshops and address the Foundation’s first class of interns, capping the inaugural African Markets Internship Programme (tonyAMIP) that has placed some of the world’s brightest young business students in executive [...]

Facebook Poll: In what area do you think social media will have the biggest impact in Africa?

We recently asked this question to our fans on Facebook in trying to establish how exactly do we expect social media to affect the lives of Africans in the days to come. Main reason we focused on this continent is because Africa has managed to establish herself as the fastest growing technology destination and as [...]

Video: Building a Global Coalition of Social Entrepreneurs

Our CEO, Joshua Wanyama (@wanyama) gives a talk on building a global coalition of social entrepreneurs using the power of social networks and new media at the Global Peace Convention (GPC) 2010.
The GPC offers a world-level platform to share best practices and develop collaborative strategies in areas of community service, education, health care, [...]

We have moved!

Hi folks, am sure most of you have been wondering why we had cut down on the posts for the past few days…well, we actually have no excuse for that at the moment. But on the bright side, Pamoja Media East Africa now has a new home! It’s now almost 2 years since we set [...]

Centre for Health Solutions (Kenya) launches new website

Centres for Health Solutions (CHS) Kenya is a newly-registered Kenyan NGO whose goal is to strengthen public health programs with specific emphasis on HIV prevention care and treatment, TB and malaria. The organization recently held its official launch (on February 25th, 2011)  in Nairobi and was attended by CHS partners who included government officials, local [...]

Corporate Blogging in Kenya

Most blogs in Kenya are personal ones, many of the bloggers describe and offer their readers a glimpse into their lives, consequently they make for interesting reading.  These are followed by political commentary blogs, what with the fascination with politics.  Follow this with a couple of financial blogs, poetry blogs and technology blogs and you [...]

PAMOJA MEDIA ANNOUNCES SPONSORSHIP FOR TEDXNAIROBI

Pamoja Media East Africa is proud to announce the renewal of its sponsorship for this year’s TEDxNairobi. The event which will be held at The Leakey Auditorium on Museum Hill in Nairobi from 1400hrs to 1900hrs is the second event that Pamoja Media will be sponsoring this year after the 140 Conference held earlier [...]

The Rockefeller Foundation Names Pamoja Media as 2010 Grant Recipient

Pamoja Media East Africa Limited is the winner of the Rockefeller Foundation’s 2010 Climate Change Initiative Grant.
The $81,200 grant has been awarded to Pamoja Media East Africa Limited to support the development of an online knowledge sharing and management system that will facilitate research and development work on climate change resilience for African agriculture.
Pamoja Media’s [...]

Online advertising: Pricing in Kenya

When web advertising first occurred, the industry was so young and immature that everyone relied on old print models to determine cost. That meant that the more prestigious a site name was, the more one could charge for that real estate regardless of the popularity or value of the traffic such a site brought. Similar [...]

Scaling Internet Growth in Africa

IT training for kids who live in the surrounding farm areas of Stutterheim outside East London in the Eastern Cape. South Africa. Photo: Trevor Samson / World Bank

It has been a famous rallying cry that Africa’s internet growth will continue skyrocketing. Research studies have proved the possibility of a viable market within certain countries [...]

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