Kenyan Pundit

The Institute of Economic Affairs is holding a Public
Forum on Vision 2030 on Wednesday, 27th August 2008 at 4.45 p.m. – 7.30
p.m. at The Sarova Stanley Hotel-Ball Room. The aim of the Forum is to
present the Vision 2030 and critique the Economic and Political Pillars.
Due to past work with scenarios and visions, IEA-Kenya was co-opted into
the core team that developed Vision 2030 and the first Medium Term Plan
2008-2012. We are keen to educate Kenyans on the details of Vision 2030
but also provide an honest critique of the work and the process.

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This Friday at 2.30 p.m. John Githongo will be giving a talk on “Re-defining Ethics in Africa – Key issues”. The talk is based in his research at St Anthony’s, College Oxford.

Venue: Strathmore Business School, Lecture Hall

Hat tip MM!

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For those following the events in Georgia (I’m paying close attention since my Tbilisi in June), the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting has some of the best coverage I’ve seen.

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The full report is available here. Unfortunately, no politicians are actually named for reasons given here.

EDIT: Link to the report fixed - sorry about that. Also apparently the politicians were named in last Saturday’s Nairobi Star…anyone have the names (God I miss blogging from Nairobi)?

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- Kenyan Stories - clips from a film soon to be released by Carol Pineau (of Africa Open for Business fame) about entrepreneurs in Kenya competing in a national business plan competition. Hat tip Afrom!

- How the Hillary campaign strategy fell apart. Very interesting read.

- Food blog search. If you love cooking like I do, a great way to find recipes.

- I need to get this of my grand to do list…it’s a really nifty tool.

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