Experience

GODAN

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Global Leader, GODAN Secretariat

  • May 2023 - Present

  Reviving GODAN to address practical engagement in line with the Nairobi DEclaration to ensure the agenda of its formation as an advocacy organization is replaced by action-based programmes that the Directorate of Research and Innovation in Kenya is leading. We are part of the Government's delivery framework.

• GODAN Africa Lead

  • Jan 2019 - Jun 2023

  GODAN co-hosted jointly with the Kenya government the GODAN Interministerial Conference in June 2017 whereupon the Nairobi Declaration on Open Data was adopted. While committing to help set up a South-South GODAN Secretariat Domiciled in the Ministry of AGriculture in Kenya, GODAN committed to: i) ensuring that developing countries are supported to benefit from the Global GODAN network and that those that are not yet members of the GODAN Network shall be encouraged to join; ii) avail the GODAN Network capacity and capabilities on agriculture data that is responsive to the contexts and challenges of the developing world; iii) equip developing countries with insights and guidance to allow them to release and reuse data in support of Innovation and Economic Growth, Improved Service Delivery and Effective Governance, and Improved Environmental and Social Outcomes, and iv) provide support to enable developing countries to sustain national level platforms for agriculture open data that are interoperableGODAN's Africa Agenda is to realize the foregoing, which has been given to the Africa Lead for GODAN to drive the realization of this agenda...through capacity building and policy advise. The GODAN Programme for Capacity Development in Africa (P4CDA) has been registered as a company limited by guaranteed to address this focus and deliver on the expectations of the Nairobi Declaration in Africa. Show less



P4CDA CANDAI-Policy Impact

• Loresho Ridge, Nairobi, Kenya

• Founder and Programme Lead

  • Jun 2021 - Jun 2023



Programme for Capacity Development in Africa (P4CDA)

• Nairobi

• Executive Director

  • Jan 2019 - Jun 2023

  Experiential learning, driven by design thinking that is anchored on knowledge driven data science will gain a lot from open data initiatives. Working with Global Open Data initiatives such as the GODAN Secretariat, GODAN Action, Open Geo, and Geo For All, creates the traction that we must expose our students to particularly as we introduce a new thinking in African Agriculture - the Student Led Agricultural Extension (SLAE). SLAE expands the work we have been doing within the University of Nairobi so that we can inspire similar thinking in other African Universities. This does not in any way mean that we have stopped supporting CANIS and the aspirations that led to the starting of CANIS, it only means that P4CDA now supports Universities, Governments, Development Partners, and Researchers to have a model of localized development that is inspired by food system, driven value chains anchored, agro-industry and agribusiness. If you have a skillset that inspires rural agriculture...join us at P4CDA... Show less



Ycenter Africa & VACID Africa for The Agriculture Pillar, The Forum for Sustainable Data Revolution

• City Centre, Nairobi

• Founding Executive Director Ycenter Africa, Value Chain Analyst, VACID Africa, Programme Lead, CANIS

  • Jun 2016 - Jun 2023

  Kiringai an Agricultural Economist, Value Chains Analyst, a Knowledge Specialist and an ICT4Ag/ICT4D Enthusiast is been retained by GIZ/EU to advise the Kenya government on the strategic directions of reforming the agricultural sector in Kenya. He takes a leave of absence from his organizational development work at VACID Africa where he promotes efforts that seek to create knowledge that impacts agricultural policy by creating and using grassroots producer organizations. His area of research is trade intensification through producer driven value chain organizations. He founded VACID Africa as a community sustainable agribusiness innovation promotion initiative that promotes knowledge in the areas of Value Addition and Cottage Industry Development (VACID) through collaboration with communities and local champion organizations. His work identifies champion organizations as local agricultural initiatives that are lead by an individual whom VACID Africa further trains to become knowledge workers in their area through our Community Trainer of Trainer Programme. At VACID, his work encourages communities to aggregate their produce for the market through the creation of a center that supports the productive activities of communities by supporting extension of knowledge services and green energy supported storage infrastructure. Farmer groups organized within their common interest focus are supported to aggregate their produce first at their local level then at the level that links to the market as depicted in the KnowEat Hub Model on our website at www.vacidafrica.or.ke Show less



UoN's Center for Agricultural Networking and Information Sharing (CANIS)

• Nairobi

• Programme Lead

  • Jun 2016 - Jun 2023

  The University Senate has mandated CANIS to promote ICTs linked agricultural transformation and to offer graduate and postgraduate programmes in future focused programmes. CANIS seeks to partner with value chain support institutions and actors with a view to supporting policies and promoting programmes that impact on Kenya's food and nutrition initiatives for wealth creation and employment generation. Starting from the scratch and linking with the initiatives I have been engaged with in my past life as a development practitioner and advisor on agricultural policy, I see a clear fit in pushing sustainable development to the grassroots. Since this is a Network and a Platform Information and Knowledge Sharing, you are invited to join me as we create foodiously driven development thinking! Show less



VACID Africa Institute, GoK

• Agribusiness and Private Sector Specialist

  • Jan 2015 - Jun 2023

  Advising the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture on policy and institutional issues that are aligned to the realization of the government vision 2030 and the implementation MTPs, while at the same time supporting VACID Africa to realize an agriculturally supportive focus to the agricultural sector in Kenya Advising the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture on policy and institutional issues that are aligned to the realization of the government vision 2030 and the implementation MTPs, while at the same time supporting VACID Africa to realize an agriculturally supportive focus to the agricultural sector in Kenya



VACID Africa Institute

• Value Chain Analyst/Knowledge Specialist

  • Jun 2006 - Jun 2023

  VACID Africa Institute is a value chain support organization for agricultural and knowledge initiatives. We partner with development institutions to promote sustainable development by providing online entrepreneurial training in collaboration with Cisco Entrepreneur Institute and telecentre.orgWe collaborate with governments, research institutions, professionals and grassroots service providers

• Institute Programme Manager

  • 2006 - 2010

  Supporting the training of Local Training Institutes and operational management of the institute



Telecentre Network

• Network Associate

  • 2008 - 2012

  I have been a knowledge partner for Telecentre.org participating in the development of the curriculum commons of the Telecentre.org Academy and localizing the curriculum for Eastern Africa and Kenya. I participate on a continuous basis in the sustainability focus of the telecentre movement in Africa through NetAfrica I have been a knowledge partner for Telecentre.org participating in the development of the curriculum commons of the Telecentre.org Academy and localizing the curriculum for Eastern Africa and Kenya. I participate on a continuous basis in the sustainability focus of the telecentre movement in Africa through NetAfrica



iMap Africa

• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • 2010 - 2010

  Strategic marketing and incubating technical team Strategic marketing and incubating technical team



Lean Solutions Group

• Director

  • 2009 - 2010

  Siting in the board to guide management Siting in the board to guide management



University of Nairobi, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences

• Student

  • 2008 - 2010

  Agricultural Information and Communication Management Agricultural Information and Communication Management



WillPower Enterprise Development Limited

• Founder

  • Feb 1995 - Mar 2004

  Strategy formulation and capacity building Strategy formulation and capacity building



Octagon Data Systems Limited

• Managing Director

  • 1998 - 2004

  Chair to the board Chair to the board



Diamond Systems

• Marketing Manager

  • Jun 1994 - Jul 1995

  Responsible for Company's strategic orientation and marketing of hardware, software, and training services

• Marketing Manager

  • Jun 1994 - Jul 1995

  Responsible for Company's strategic orientation and marketing of hardware, software, and training services