Jaza Pengo is Kiswahili for “close the gap” or “fill in the blanks”:- in Europe : fill the growing gap of qualified resources;- in Africa : fill the growing unemployment gap.The role of Jaza Pengo is to act as interface- in Europe : support businesses with identification, shortlisting, training, testing, selection, recruitment and administrative support of qualified resources;- in Africa : provide qualified talent with opportunities to escape unemployment.In a first phase, Jaza Pengo will focus on engineers and expert technicians

Elewa is a Kenyan education innovation company, incorporated in 2015. “Elewa” means “to understand” in Kiswahili language. Elewa designs and implements high-impact and scalable education and training programs for professional and life-long learning. Making use of powerful yet cost-effective technology, Elewa’s training programs are able to provide training to thousands of beneficiaries in less time, with higher efficiency and at a fraction of the cost of traditional large-scale training methods.Elewa's customers are corporates, NGO’s and other organizations active in the verticals education, healthcare and agriculture & environment. Examples of successfully implemented projects are conversational learning programs for nurses in DRC, for teachers in Rwanda and for scouts in Kenya. For some of these programs, Elewa deploys its own IP on top of WhatsApp, turning the platform into a learning hub thereby avoiding heavy investments in training devices and time-consuming explanations on the learning platform.

iTalanta is Elewa's venture into Discovering, Developing and Deploying quality IT talent in Africa. "Talanta" is the Kiswahili word for "talent"Doubling as a training institute and software agency, iTalanta offers world-class technology training to highly-skilled individuals through a unique on-the-job apprenticeship. Our apprentices work in teams, together with senior engineers, and provide end-to-end technology services to cutting-edge startups, SMEs and corporates. Our customers are maily in Europe, but also in North America and Sub-Saharan Africa.We started our iTalanta Academy, tech training centers which upskill youth to a level where they can be employed as IT apprentices.

dukamili aspires to improve the well-being of traditional retailers (called "duka" in kiswahili), through enhanced financial inclusion and literacy. dukamili enables these traditional retailers to run their businesses better by providing a powerful yet easy-to-use online platform that connects the entire eco-system from the FMCG manufacturer to the individual duka

Initially a provider of advisory and consulting services in the domain of IT, telecommunication, infrastructure, “quadruple play”, digital content, mobile money and related areas.Now focused on providing support to impact start-ups in East-Africa.

Licensed Infrastructure Service Provider deploying networks for Wi-Fi and mobile coverage at malls, airports, hotels, hospitals, university campuses, office buildings, gated communities, etc… These Distributed Antenna Systems are leased to all interested mobile and data operators on infrastructure sharing basis and with a full opex model.

Eaton Towers is a leading African tower company, owning and managing passive telecommunications infrastructure across the continent. As an independent actor, Eaton Towers implements infrastructure-sharing strategies, collocating multiple telecom operators on the same towers.

Wananchi is the first (and so far the only) Triple Play operator on the African continent, offering data (high speed internet), video (> 100 TV channels) and voice (high quality Voice over IP) to residential and business customers, using the "Zuku" brand name.Under the brand name "Zuku TV", Wananchi is also offering a DTH (Direct To Home) service of about 80 TV channels via satellite in 10 countries in the greater East African region.To enrich its TV offer, Wananchi produces its own channels, including Zuku Afrika, Zuku Life, Zuku Sports and 6 Zuku Movie channels.Wananchi also has a B-to-B division, using VSAT solutions to provide data and IP services to business customers on the African continent.

Telkom Kenya is the former state owned fixed line operator, privatized on 21 Dec 2007 and then owned by France Telecom (51%) and the Government of Kenya (49%).In September 2008, Telkom Kenya launched the country's third GSM network, using the brand name "Orange".Under the same Orange brand, internet and broadband services - both wireline and wireless - were offered to residential and business markets.Telkom Kenya is also a leading player in the East African wholesale market for voice, data and IP, via its shareholding in submarine cable systems such as TEAMS, EASSy and LION 2.

Equant, re-branded to Orange Business Services in June 2006, subsidiary of France Telecom, is recognized industry leader in global voice, data and IP network and integration services for multinational businesses.The Brussels/Luxembourg office is managing customers such as the European Commission, SWIFT, HP, AXA, Chevron, Exxon, Goodyear, ...

Before the merger with Equant, on 1 July 2001, Global One Communications was a fully owned affiliate of the France Telecom group, providing global voice, data and IP services to multinational customers.

A2000, a joint venture between UPC and MediaOne (formerly USWest), was cable operator for the greater Amsterdam region, serving 600,000 households and 50,000 business customers. Before its privatization in 1996, A2000 was owned by the Greater Municipality of Amsterdam.After a substantial technical upgrade of the network, A2000 was the first European cable operator to provide Triple Play services at large scale, offering a combination of telephony, broadband internet and enhanced video services such as pay-per-view.In 1999, controlling shareholder UPC, also headquartered in Amsterdam, managed an exceptionally successful IPO.

UPC Belgium, a wholly owned affiliate of the UPC group, was operating cable TV networks in Brussels and Louvain.After upgrading of its cable infrastructure, UPC Belgium was the first operator in Belgium to launch new cable services such as broadband internet and enhanced video services (premium channels and pay-per-view).

Slovatel was a wholly owned affiliate of the UPC group. The company constructed and operated new cable TV networks in various cities in the Slovak Republic.

Initially owned by Philips Electronics, in 1995 TVD Radio Public became part of UPC, a joint venture between Philips and United Telecom Holdings Inc.Apart from operating cable TV networks in Belgium, TVD Radio Public was also providing engineering and consulting services for the construction of new cable TV networks in Eastern and Southern Europe, Asia and Australia.

New Media Systems was a newly created business unit of Philips Electronics, for commercialization and distribution of computers and peripherals to residential & small business customers.