The next big goal of soteICT is to create a startup hub in Voi town from January 2015 to support our graduate students. An essential part of the this new stage in our project is closer cooperation with businesses, which will be able to provide our young absolvents with mentorship and deeper insight into the world of entrepreneurship. We believe that the cooperation can be fruitful for both sides...

1. Slovak – Kenyan Cooperation
for Modern Schools
soteICT Vision
Pontis Foundation

2. Partners:

3. Kenya as an innovator
The technology in M-Pesa
itself is not an
innovation!
The whole ecosystem of
some 20 thousand small
agents and resellers is!

4. Practical training
• Kenyan employers find that all new
employees require additional training,
ranging from basic soft and hard skills to
specific functional and industry-specific
skills

6. Household Enterprise
• one out of every three household enterprises
in Kenya led by a young adult
• up to 70% go bust every year
• have a mild tendency to locate in places that
are not the most profitable, and have more
limited access to credit

7. UNDP Youth employment challenge
report 2013:
The size of current programmes pale in
comparison to the need for bringing more
young people into apprenticeships. It is
recommended that any scaling up of
apprenticeships should not be done in
isolation from efforts to increase
education.

8. What we do
• Equipping schools with ICT
10 secondary and 2 primary schools have obtained 150 computers, 20
projectors, 21 laptops, 20 cameras, internet connection, etc.
• Training teachers on ICT integration in education and project
based teaching
120 teachers were trained in ICT education and project based teaching
15 teachers have been trained in training company methodology
• ICT clubs
2400 students gaining IT skills through regular IT classes and extracurricular ICT
clubs
• Training companies
• 407 students have been gaining business skills and practical education through
30 training companies

9. Vision soteICT

10. soteICT Centre - Building a
Skills Inventory for Kenya
• training centre
• start-up incubator and co-working
centre
• market research centre for Kenyan
and Slovak entrepreneurs
• ‘personal agency’
• fabrication laboratory - FabLab

11. There is a clear need to connect
student training companies with
real world enterprises,
consultants, and startup
incubators to make the simulation
better and potentially let
graduates create real businesses.

12. Benefits for young absolvents
• Practical business education
• Technical and programming education
• Soft-skills training
• Experience through training companies and
internships
• Support of start-ups

13. Help our students drive the
change!

14. How to get engaged:
• mentorship of training companies and starting firms at the
start-up centre
• online mentorship – ‘webinars’
• become our speakers (Trade Fair, soteICT centre, schools)
• be our consultants
• post your story on our website and motivate the students
• internships

15. Benefits for real businesses
• Impact of real businesses and employers on skills of young absolvents –
potential employees
• Building reputation and image of your company as one which is
responsible, ethical and a driver of change
• Increase the visibility of your company in the region (speak at our events,
publish the profile of your company on our website and in newsletters,
PR in both Slovak and Kenyan media)
• Option to get your market research done by our professionals from
soteICT centre
• networking opportunities
• Attract talented young people to your company and save time and money
training them

16. Resources
• http://techcrunch.com/startups/
• http://www.entrepreneur.com
• http://mashable.com/
• http://pandodaily.com/

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