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    Social Entrepreneurship through Blockchain Technology
    Lynda Chalker
    • Oct 19, 2018
    • 3 min

    Social Entrepreneurship through Blockchain Technology

    Africa’s 2nd largest Social Entrepreneurship Conference was held at Tangaza University College in Nairobi. The two day conference Established in 2017, aimed to redefine the future of social enterprises in Kenya and Africa at large. Grassroots Team at AACOSE in Tangaza University. Themed Contextualizing and shaping social entrepreneurship in Africa, this conference attracted over 700 participants who included social entrepreneurs practitioners, policy makers, investors, comm
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    Disrupting Currencies
    Lynda Chalker
    • Oct 3, 2018
    • 3 min

    Disrupting Currencies

    Grassroots Economics Foundation has been at the forefront of empowering bottom-of-the-pyramid communities in Kenya by use of Sarafu Network; a network of Community Currencies, (CCs), operating in Nairobi and Mombasa respectively. It started with 75 businesses in Kongowea (Mombasa) launching Eco Pesa as the first local currency in 2010, then Bangla-Pesa in Mikindani-Mombasa-Kenya, which the locals embraced. To-date, community members have been using it as a Community Currency
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