Entrepreneurship

• Author(s): Mario Franco

• Categories: Business & Economics

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2016-11-09
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• Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Entrepreneurship has been seen as a phenomenon allowing economic development, job creation, increased productivity and innovation, but many studies do not include the causes of these events. Consequently, the objective of this book is to fill this gap by combining several studies from more practice-oriented perspectives. The various chapters presented here follow several approaches which researchers explore in different contexts and link to specific experiences in entrepreneurship. This book intends to contribute to better understanding of the phenomenon of entrepreneurship and innovation, and to show how these business practices can stimulate economic development in various countries and regions worldwide.

Reimagining Money

• Author(s): Sibel Kusimba

• Categories: Social Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2021-01-05
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• Publisher: Stanford University Press

Technology is rapidly changing the way we think about money. Digital payment has been slow to take off in the United States but is displacing cash in countries as diverse as China, Kenya, and Sweden. In Reimagining Money, Sibel Kusimba describes the rise of M-Pesa, and offers a rich portrait of how this technology changes the economic and social landscape, allowing users to create webs of relationships as they exchange, pool, borrow, lend, and share digital money in user-built networks. These networks, Kusimba argues, will shape the future of financial technologies and their impact on poverty, inclusion, and empowerment. She describes how urban and transnational migrants maintain a presence ...

Defining Moments

• Author(s): Kimani Njogu

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2011
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• Publisher: African Books Collective

There is no singular interpretation over the forces that almost brought Kenya to a standstill around the 2007 general elections. The 'truth' about what actually happened will be found in the in-between spaces of dialogue and voicing. Somewhere amidst these at times contradictory and at times reaffirming voices can be found glimpses of what the pursuit of political power can do to a people, especially in a State where accountability to citizens is of minimal value. The essays in Defining Moments capture some of the transformative moments during the crisis that rocked Kenya in 2007/2008 and in its resolution. These reflections by journalists, lawyers, political scientists and cultural workers ...

Human learning in the digital era

• Author(s): Netexplo (France), UNESCO. Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2019-04-17
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• Publisher: UNESCO Publishing

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Smart Cities

• Author(s): Anuar Mohamed Kassim, Lutfi Al-Sharif

• Categories: Technology & Engineering

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2021-10-13
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• Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

The development of smart cities is important and beneficial to a government and its citizens. With the advent of the smartphone, rapid and reliable communication between and among individuals and governments has become ubiquitous. Everything can be connected and accessed easily with the touch of a finger. Changes in mobile internet telecommunication systems allow for the advance of new urbanization using smart city development methods. The evolution of technology in Industry 4.0, such as the advancement of cutting-edge sensors utilizing the Internet of things (IoT) concept, has wide applications in developing various smart systems. This publication analyzes the interconnected cyber-physical systems inherent in smart cities, and the development methods and applications thereof.