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iridium drives success at Annual AITEC Banking & Mobile Money COMESA Conference 2014

The AITEC Banking & Mobile Money was a major success according to attendees – all thanks to all the partners and sponsors who worked together…

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Iridium Interactive Helps ALA Transform Student Placement Process by Optimizing ALA’s Investment in ‘Salesforce”

African Leadership Academy is a world class pan African secondary institution that aims to educate and develop outstanding students into principled, ethical leaders for Africa.…

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Why most start-up businesses fail: Sriram Bharatam at TEDxKaren

Sriram Bharatam is the Founder and Chief Mentor at Kuza Biashara Ltd, an organization which nurtures the capacity of small businesses using innovative digital and…

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iridiumInteractive partners with KPMG as Digital Partners for the Top100 Mid-Sized Companies Survey 2014

Finally, the Greats take their Seats Iridium Interactive partners with KPMG for its annual Kenya’s Top 100 mid-sized companies Survey (‘Top 100 Survey’) as the Digital Partners for the Second Consecutive year. This is an initiative of KPMG Kenya and Nation Media Group. The Survey seeks to identify Kenya’s fastest growing medium sized companies in order to showcase business excellence and highlight some of the country’s most successful entrepreneurship stories.

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How Small Business Owners In Kenya Can Take Advantage Of Technology To Scale-Up Business

The number of small businesses in Kenyan has been growing over the years and this has brought about an increase in competition. Luckily, we live at a time where technology is transforming the world into a global village. As Kuza Biashara Founder & Chief Mentor, Mr Sriram Bharatam, shares in this interview with CNBC Africa’s Bonney Tunya, small business owners can effectively leverage on technology to Learn, Connect and Grow.

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iridium drives success at Annual AITEC Banking & Mobile Money COMESA Conference 2014

The AITEC Banking & Mobile Money was a major success according to attendees – all thanks to all the partners and sponsors who worked together to ensure everything went on as planned. Iridium Interactive provided digital coverage for the event…and in line with our mantra “Putting the Dot on the Dot”, went above and beyond the call of duty to deliver a seamless experience for all partners, exhibitors and guests.

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iridium Interactive Partners with AITEC Africa

iridiumInteractive CEO & Founder, Sriram Bharatam signed an a digital partnership agreement with AITEC Africa chairman Sean Moroney to promote AITEC Banking & Mobile Money COMESA Conference 2014. Aitec Africa has been focussed on ICT publishing, event management, professional development and training in Africa. AITEC has been a market-leader in terms of spreading knowledge on the Internet, computing and telecommunications across most of English-speaking Africa. iridiumInteractive Limited is an Innovative

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iridium Signs Up with KPMG Top 100 Midsize Companies as Digital Partner for East Africa

iridiumInteractive has steadily been creating a competitive environment for entrepreneurs. In this regard, we have partnered with KPMG Top 100, for the second consecutive year, in a bid to raise the bar for entrepreneurs in East Africa. iridiumInteractive has played a very active role as the official digital partners for the Eatst Africa Top 100 Survey. This initiative is to identify Kenya’s fastest growing medium sized companies and showcase business

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Sriram Bharatam Champions EO East Africa Chapter, wins Randi Caroll Award

The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is a global network of more than 10,000 business owners in 45+ countries. For a quarter century, Entrepreneurs’ organization EO has been supporting entrepreneurs in all corners of the world, chiefly through introduction of new chapters. EO East Africa is the newest addition to the EMEA region and a key player in growth of Africa’s entrepreneurial landscape. Sriram Bharatham, an EO member for a decade, is

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Iridium Interactive Helps ALA Transform Student Placement Process by Optimizing ALA’s Investment in ‘Salesforce”

African Leadership Academy is a world class pan African secondary institution that aims to educate and develop outstanding students into principled, ethical leaders for Africa. Since 2008, ALA has found, nurtured and connected the best and the brightest youth from 54 African countries to be shaped into Africa’s future leadership cadre. As a young organization, ALA was thrilled to have the ability to utilize Salesforce under the “Power of Us’,

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Why most start-up businesses fail: Sriram Bharatam at TEDxKaren

Sriram Bharatam is the Founder and Chief Mentor at Kuza Biashara Ltd, an organization which nurtures the capacity of small businesses using innovative digital and mobile solutions. His presentation at TEDxKaren was geared towards exploring why most start-ups in the corporate world fail at an infancy stage. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like

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Iridium Interactive Wins Google Innovation Award for Health Care Delivery

The 2013 Google Innovation Award recognizes and honors innovation and excellence delivered by Iridium Interactive in the area of Health Care Delivery in Kenya through a comprehensive, patient-centered, tuberculosis management platform called TIBU.  TIBU in Kiswahili means“to cure” or “treat medically.”   According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Kenya ranks 15th on the list of 22 high-burden tuberculosis (TB) affected countries in the world. With over 150,000 people suffering from

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TIBU A system to radically reduce TB

Do you know that the incidence of Tuberculosis can come down by 10 percent every year? Yes, this is indeed possible by a unique programme called TIBU which can help in controlling the dreaded disease. TIBU is a programme that is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Health, Safaricom and its partners iridium Interactive Ltd and Tangazoletu Ltd funded by USAID.Kenya ranks 15th in a list of 22 high

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Causing an effect, from Odisha to Kenya

Sometimes it is important to believe in your dream and pursue it. Everybody is given a chance in life. Success weds those who identify it and pursue it,” says Sriram, a first-generation entrepreneur, who is now creating waves in faraway Kenya with his Internet and digital media projects.On October 30, 1999, a super-cyclone had battered Odisha. In Hyderabad, a restless young man woke up the next morning with an idea.

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iridiumInteractive Wins Kenya’s ICT Board Tandaa Grant for Local Content Innovation

Innovation has led iridiumInteractive to make its mark emphatically in the Kenya’s agenda of dynamic growth. Receiving the Tandaa Grant for Local Content innovations touches new frontiers. Tandaa is a brand of the Kenya ICT Board that promotes the creation and distribution of locally relevant digital content through the Tandaa Symposium and seed money to ICT entrepreneurs. Digital content is any content that can be consumed from an electronic device

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