Cross Roads

This week i had the privilege of visiting the Global Business Labs office at Makerere University. The trip came after months of talks via email but no progress. I guess my interest in this group stems from my general interest in the 'Innovation' boom that is taking the Information Technology world by storm. I had a few questions many of which were answered by the email that the group sent me. What i will present here are some of the basics as i see them. There are two major groups with which i have interacted (albeit from a distance). Demo-Africa and Pivot East. Both host events in Africa which are designed to tap into the vast pools of knowledge in Uganda's youth. The former had an event which it held in Kampala with one of our more notable innovation labs-HiveColab (http://www.hivecolab.org). The event has the backing of the U.S government and the then Secretary of State-Hillary Rodham Clinton (http://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/clinton-hillary-...

The company is doing well. It seems that much of what i try to do is better done than advertised. Trying to get people into the training but that is not proving too simple. There is a sense of exhaustion and the routine of life. Am sure though that none of you are new to all of this. It seems to me that more business are going to be built around individuals especially because there are so many tools available and a great number of people that have very specific competencies. What i normally do for the business, is to generate projects and then create material for those projects. The next step of this process is to use this material with the little literature that i have to link it to some of the text books and technical materials that are available. Recently installed orange hrm which has helped me gain a better knowledge of business structure and human resource management . Have also started using Drupal which has helped me design better pages. Am yet to test other server platforms...