Pure Digital Passion with Moses Kemibaro

This is a presentation I made on the 8th July 2022 at the first-ever eDigital Connect Summit. The topic was 'Unpacking Web3: Going Beyond The Hype & What It Means For All Things Digital In The Future In Kenya, East Africa & Beyond' and we basically broke down the same for the audience so that they can take practical next steps towards realizing the potential of Web3. I hope you enjoy liste...

This is a conversation I had a little while ago with Oladosu Teyibo who is the Founder and CEO of Analog Teams , a global technology services outsourcing business that's based in the US but utilizes the best African talent to deliver high-quality services to some of the world's largest businesses. Teyibo is Nigerian and attended University in the US where he also happened to be a successful track...

This is a conversation I had with Ted Pantone who is the founder of an innovative and potentially disruptive insurtech startup called Turaco. Ted has worked for many years in Kenya and Uganda and at one point he was the founder of the Ugandan Franchise of Pizza Hut as well as running development projects in water and sanitation in Western Kenya for the Gates Foundation. Ted has a passion for looki...

This is a conversation I had with Jaime Pinto who was recently promoted to the position of Chief Commercial Officer of the Software Group. Jaime is an interesting person who has worked in technology-related businesses for decades across many regions and markets both as an entrepreneur and as a senior corporate leader. He has a rich professional background in digital payments and financial solution...

Safaricom, Kenya's leading mobile network officially launched its commercial 5G services in Kenya during an event on Thursday the 29th of October 2022. As part of the launch, Safaricom had a panel of Moses Kemibaro the Founder and CEO of Digital Agency Dotsavvy, Rehema Wachira a Full Stack Application Developer from Andela, and Brian “Beast” Diang'a a leading Professional E-Sports Athlete in Kenya...

The International Day of the Girl Child was 11th October 2022 which recognizes girls' rights, and the unique challenges girls face around the world. This year’s theme is “Digital generation. Our generation”, which provides a platform for the global community to understand the disadvantages girls face online. This is very much in line with our theme for the October 2022 Edtech Monday Kenya which is...

BasiGo is one of Kenya's first companies that has delved into the public transport sector by offering a novel electric bus proposition that will enable public service vehicle or PSV operators to finance the purchase of the electric buses affordably and cost-effectively from the KCB Bank Group . The electric vehicle or electric mobility space in Kenya is quite nascent and hence this is definitely q...

Mawingu Networks is an Internet Service Provider or ISP in Kenya that has been operational for approximately a decade that has carved out a niche for serving consumers and organisations in parts of Kenya that have been traditionally underserved by larger and better-known ISPs with unlimited Internet access at an affordable price.  I had the opportunity to have an in-depth conversation with Fa...

Earlier this week I hosted my first EdTech Monday Kenya panel on NTV Kenya where we discussed the important topic of Internet safety for young learners in Kenya. This is an especially pertinent topic given that during the pandemic we saw the unprecedented adoption of EdtTch as a key way to ensure continuity of learning in Kenya and globally, via the Internet. However, at the same time, this meant...

A couple of weeks ago Vodacom Tanzania became the first mobile network in Tanzania to roll out 5G Internet services starting with Dar Es Salaam with plans to expand services to other major cities and towns throughout Tanzania. This makes Vodacom Tanzania really the first mobile network in East Africa to truly bring 5G services to the region at scale and naturally, I wanted to get more insights on...

This is a conversation I had with Firas Ahmad , the Founder, and CEO of Tanzania's AzamPay back in late March 2022 when they launched AzamPesa , a mobile network agnostic mobile money wallet. For reasons I can't get into it has taken me a few months to finally publish this podcast where Firas shared so much on his personal journey to building what is one of Tanzania's and East Africa's most innova...

It has taken me the better part of two years but finally, I managed to wrangle a podcast with Liko Agosta , Founder of PesaPal, one of Kenya's and Africa's leading and homegrown digital payments services providers. Liko is the type of founder and techie who likes to quietly put his head down and grinds away at solving big business problems without the hype or white hot attention that is currently...

Ali Hussein is someone I have known for close to three decades since we first met and worked together at 3mice Interactive Media (3mice), arguably Kenya's first digital marketing agency in 2001 (I think?). He and I worked closely in 3mice's business development department where we spent many days and nights with a highly talented and hard-working team essentially pitching, winning, and managing pr...

This is an interview I had with Kamal Budhabhatti, the founder and CEO of Little App on the 18% commission cap for taxi-hailing apps In Kenya that was announced earlier this week by the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure. Little App is not really being affected by this new development since they already have a low commission rate of only 15% which is actually below the newly introduced commi...

This is an interview I had this week with Moses Nderitu who I have known for the better part of 20 years or longer since he used to run a video and events production company called Level One Productions. Moses is someone I would describe as a classic serial entrepreneur having started other successful companies since then such as Excloosive and Koto Housing. At this time, Moses is the Chief Revenu...

Eric Achola is the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Telkom Kenya, one of Kenya's Telcos. He has been working with Telkom Kenya for approximately 3 years. I met him today to discuss what I thought would be a podcast conversation around several new offerings from Telkom Kenya like the Changa Bundle which offers an unprecedented 100GB of data for up to 5 users on a shared basis for only Kes. 1,500 a...

This is an interview that I had yesterday afternoon with Addis Alemayehou, the founder and chairman of Ethiopia's Kazana Group . The Kazana Group currently has a portfolio of over 13 companies operating in marketing, communications, advertisement, fintech, telecom, manufacturing, logistics, technologies, investment management, and advisory services. Kazana Group's mission is to promote economic pr...

This is an interview I had yesterday evening with Matt Koidin, VP and General Manager of Pocket at Mozilla as well as Carolyn O'Hara, senior director of content discovery for Pocket at Mozilla. Matt was a member of the founding team of Pocket, joining in 2011 as CTO and Head of Operations. He was integral to the Mozilla acquisition of Pocket in 2017, and today is responsible for the entire Pocket...

This is an interview I had not too long ago with Bulent Boytorun who is the Founder and CEO of CryptoSasa, Kenya's and East Africa's first locally based crypto exchange. Bulent has been working CryptoSasa for the better part of the last couple of years when he saw a gap in how the whole crypto market was operating in this part of the world given that cryptocurrencies are normally traded on global...

This is an interview I had late last week in Nairobi with Doug Hunter who heads up Customer and Ecosystem Enablement for SYSPRO Africa. Doug s responsible for Support, Consulting, and Education/User-Enablement services to SYSPRO's channel partners and customers within Sub-Saharan Africa. SYSPRO is a major player in Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP systems used by many businesses in Kenya and Ea...

This was an interesting conversation I had a couple of months ago with Belinda Jubilant Wera who is the Head of Digital Care & Automation at Vodacom Tanzania. She took me through her career changes prior to and during her time at Vodacom Tanzania and also how they are using digital channels such as chatbots and voice biometrics to ensure enhanced customer service.  She also gave me a sens...

This is an interview I had with Jean-Christian Bergeron, CEO of RUBIS East Africa on the launch of the RUBIS brand in Kenya following the acquisitions of Kenol Kobil and Gulf Energy in 2020 which has 230+ fuel stations in the region as well as their digital transformation as a business.  RUBIS is using digital technologies to transform the utility and convenience of its offerings such as havi...

This is an interview I had with Andy Halsall, the Founder and CEO of poa! Internet, an ISP in Kenya that has deliberately targetted the underserved low-income market in Nairobi and the rest of Kenya. poa! Internet was established in 2016 and to date has grown significantly with 12,000 paying home customers and tens of thousands of WIFI customers. In January 2022, poa! Internet secured US$ 28M in a...

This is an interview I had with Greg Murray, Founder & CEO of KOKO Networks, a bioethanol cookers startup that has over 350,000 customers in Kenya. KOKO Networks builds and deploys dense networks of cloud-connected "KOKOpoints" inside local corner stores, which serve as consumer access points for goods and services delivered in partnership with major suppliers.  KOKO networks' main offeri...

In this interview with Omosalewa Adeyemi and Kanyinsola Ajibade, we get to understand more about the origins of Flutterwave, their massive growth to date as well as massive funding rounds they seem to be attracting that have led the business to have a valuation of US$ 3 Billion which is practically unheard of in the context of technology or fintech startups in Africa.  We get to have an in-de...