http://www.ihub.co.ke/blog/2012/05/day-1-of-ist-africa-2012-developing-local-content/ Nairobi's Innovation Hub Sun, 12 May 2013 15:21:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.ihub.co.ke/blog/2012/05/day-1-of-ist-africa-2012-developing-local-content/comment-page-1/#comment-3813 ICT for Democracy in East Africa: May 2012 News Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:16:56 +0000 http://www.ihub.co.ke/blog/?p=7459#comment-3813 [...] participated in the IST Africa Conference. Conference insights are shared by in two blog posts here and [...] [...] participated in the IST Africa Conference. Conference insights are shared by in two blog posts here and [...]

]]> http://www.ihub.co.ke/blog/2012/05/day-1-of-ist-africa-2012-developing-local-content/comment-page-1/#comment-3616 Lauren Wed, 09 May 2012 16:38:08 +0000 http://www.ihub.co.ke/blog/?p=7459#comment-3616 Interesting challenge posed by Hinkkanen, because it implies that scale automatically leads to greater innovation - which isn't necessarily true. Often, the thinking behind 'going to scale' is that the hardware (in this case ICT Hubs) will be sufficient and not enough attention is paid to the software of the ecosystem (for example, social networks amongst entrepreneurs). Of course an increase of hubs could foster and encourage more networking and innovation - but this isn't guaranteed at all. So I guess what I'm saying is that perhaps the challenge given by Hinkkanen reduces the complexity of innovation, albeit a very good challenge to consider. Interesting challenge posed by Hinkkanen, because it implies that scale automatically leads to greater innovation – which isn’t necessarily true. Often, the thinking behind ‘going to scale’ is that the hardware (in this case ICT Hubs) will be sufficient and not enough attention is paid to the software of the ecosystem (for example, social networks amongst entrepreneurs). Of course an increase of hubs could foster and encourage more networking and innovation – but this isn’t guaranteed at all. So I guess what I’m saying is that perhaps the challenge given by Hinkkanen reduces the complexity of innovation, albeit a very good challenge to consider.

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