Professor Elijah Bitange Ndemo (born in Kisii County in South Western Kenya), a global technocrat and currently serving as Kenya’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium and the European Union. Professor Ndemo is also an academic and newspaper columnist with the Kenyan newspaper

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and its sister publication, the

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. He currently serves part-time as a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Nairobi’s Business School. He teaches and researches entrepreneurship and research methods, with most of his research work being focused on ICT within small and medium enterprises, and their influence on economic development in Kenya. Previously served as the Permanent Secretary in the

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, from 2005 to 2013 under the former Kenyan president

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. He was awarded the prestigious presidential Chief of the Burning Spear of Kenya (CBS) for his distinguished services in 2006. Ndemo is regarded as one of the key people who oversaw a transformation in the Kenyan ICT Sector. As the Ministry of Information and Communication Permanent Secretary, he accomplished this through various ICT policies and projects such as the installation of undersea submarine cables, the development of business process outsourcing industry, the reduction in mobile termination rates (MTRs), initiating Kenya Open Data, and the growth of tech hubs such as iHub and mLab in Kenya through effective regulation. Prof. Ndemo holds a PhD in Industrial Economics from the University of Sheffield in the UK, an MBA from the

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in the US and bachelor's degree in Finance from the University of Minnesota. He is the immediate past Honorary Chair of the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) and an Advisor to the Better than Cash Alliance, a global initiative to digitise payments.

Early life and education

Education

#PhD in Industrial Economics - University of Sheffield #Master of Business Administration - University of St. Thomas(Minnesota), Minnesota, USA, in 1991 #Bachelor's degree in Finance - Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, USA, in 1988

Career

#Kenya’s Ambassador to the

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and the European Union, 2022 – Present #Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Nairobi . 2013–Present #Permanent Secretary in the

, Government of the Republic of Kenya . 2005 - 2013 #Senior Advisor at the GINI Centre for Applied Sciences in Emerging Technologies. 2019–Present.About GINI Centre
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Publications

#Ndemo, E B (2015) Political Entrepreneurialism: Reflections of a Civil Servant on the Role of Political Institutions in Technology Innovation and Diffusion in Kenya. Stability
International Journal of Security and Development 4(1):15
#Ndemo B and Smallbone D. (2015) Linkage Dynamics between MSEs and Multinational Corporations in Kenya. A longitudinal review of a 2005 conference paper –DBA Africa Management Review 1 2015. #Dennis M. A. and Ndemo B. (2014) What drives women out of Entrepreneurship? The joint role of culture and access to finance. DBA Africa Management Review 2 (2014). #Ndemo B. Rushda Majeed (2012) Case Study: Disseminating the Power of Information
Kenya Open Data Initiative. Innovation for Successful Societies. Princeton University Press (2012)
#Ndemo E. B. (2007) Women entrepreneurs and strategic decision making.
Management Decision 45(1), 118-130 (2007).
#Ndemo B. (2006) Assessing sustainability of faith-based enterprises in Kenya.
International Journal of Social Economics 33 (5/6), 446-462 (2006)
#Ndemo B. (2005) Maasai Entrepreneurship and Change. Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship Vol. 18 No. 2. Spring 2005 pp 207–219. (2005) #Ndemo, B. and Aiko, D. (2020). ‘Mobile technology and development’. In: N. Cheeseman, K. Kanyinga and G. Lynch (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Kenyan Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. #Ndemo B. (2020) Slum Digitisation, Its Opponents and Allies in Developing Smart Cities: The Case of Kibera, Nairobi. In: Hawken S., Han H., Pettit C. (eds) Open Cities , Open Data. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore #Ndemo, B., (2018) Toward the Transformative Power of Universal Connectivity. In Mark Graham Digital Economies at Global Margins. MIT Press.

External links

Daily Nation

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ndemo, Bitange 1959 births Kenyan civil servants Living people People from Nairobi Alumni of the University of Sheffield