Once he was through with his random questions on entrepreneurship, he eyeballed the question paper then posed: How important is digital, information and communication technology innovation? My attempt to elaborate how platforms like Airbnb and Uber have created jobs didn’t do any good as he quickly dismissed them as exploitative and paying peanuts to locals. In Kenya, for example, the concept behind Uber has been extended to fast-growing Sendy for motorbikes and Lorry for trucks. Prior to the e-hailing taxi services, a taxi could be literary metres away from the customer but the two would never meet. Similarly, Airbnb has enabled the creation of new jobs that, though menial, are better than doing nothing.

Source: Daily Nation April 16, 2018 11:48 UTC