In conversation with Ken Banks

This week, I’m in conversation with award winning social entrepreneur who founded kiwanja.net, an NGO focused on applying mobile technology for social and environmental change in the developing world, especially in Africa. Ken is currently Head of Social Purpose at Yoti, the app that helps everyone authenticate themselves, staff, suppliers or volunteers in a secure, private and scalable way. I originally met Ken when we both presented at a coprotate social responsibility conference for one of the big law firms in London back in 2011 and he later joined me in 2015 on the Thursday Throng with his book, The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator. The rise of the reluctant innovator came out of a short article for Wired magazine on an alternative to the current Western focused development model used in the developing economies. It was followed by two other books on social entrepreneuriship and social development. The first was traditonally published and is a more academic vision of the first book with a greater emphasis on the practicalities of implementing social development projects and programmes. The experience of self publishing and then traditional publishing showed Ken that there are benefits and challenges with each model and he explains what some of these are. His third book was again self published and focuses on some of his favourite blog posts from the Kwanja blog on topics as diverse as anthropology, technology and how to do development in a more ethical, thoughtful a...
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