provide work and maker spaces for the local community. Each innovation hub may be associated with a nearby university or technical vocational education and training institution (TVET) and provide an opportunity for the community to access knowledge, create local solutions to problems, explore with expert guidance improvements to traditional solutions and enter the enterprise pipeline to mass production. 6. Competitions: To provide an avenue to showcase locally developed ICT products, the Ministry of ICT will hold annual county and national ICT shows where locally developed products can be showcased, the shows will provide a platform for developers to meet industry and financial partners. Entrepreneurship: The nature of enterprise is changing rapidly, and the traditional format of corporation, established over 400 years ago of multidivisional functional silos with ownership and management separated, is being superseded by new shapes of organisation based on fluid highly networked, asset light, sharing economy forms. It is our assessment that organisations that span the entire supply chain with a vast array of products are harder to create and have doubtful viability in our environment we posit as policy assumption that small, agile, highly specialised companies seamlessly integrating into a product or service delivery pipeline of global scale are going to gain in prevalence. The top of the food chain will be organisations in a coordination or platform role the service aggregators and arbitrators as it were. In light of this assessment, the Government has encouraged the formation of small companies; agencies such as the Youth Fund and others provide small loans for the establishment and support of small and micro enterprises by the youth. The public sector ICT business environment is almost by definition geared against the majority of local companies, precisely because the procurement rules and risk minimisation strategy of most government procurement processes favour the award of contracts and tenders to already large and successful companies. This creates an unfortunate chicken and egg scenario where government wants to encourage the emergence and growth of Kenyan enterprise, but precisely because of the perceived risk does not give Ministry of ICT, Kenya Kenyan enterprises a fair turn at the wheel. The Access to Government Procurement Opportunities (AGPO) presidential directive seeks to ameliorate this unfortunate feedback loop by guaranteeing that 30% of government business goes to youth and PWD-owned businesses. This policy specifically encourages new business models and service delivery paradigms built around freelancing, onlinework and opportunity swarming. An example of such a model (in no way prescriptive) would be a consortium of individual workers that form an ad-hoc company around a specific government or service delivery opportunity and share risks and profits, then disband on completion. A subset of whose members subsequently or concurrently join yet another opportunity focused organisation built just in time. These fluid, swarming organisations are an expected element of the future entrepreneurial environment, and are specifically encouraged. The enactment of the Companies Act of 2015 provides wide latitude in the nature and shape of Kenyan corporations. It is the aim of this policy to ensure that in the next 5 years, there are new firms: 1. 20 Kenyan Multi-national ICT Companies 2. 300 Mid-sized Companies 3. 5000 Small and Medium Enterprises 4. 20,000 Start-ups This policy provides that: Contract swarming: Government ICT procurement will consider awards of tenders to new and innovative organisational forms to permit greater participation by emerging enterprises, and adopt home grown solutions. Buying Kenyan: In every instance where there is a Kenyan solution that meets up to 70% of stated requirements, the Kenyan built solution will be accepted in preference to any other solution from anywhere else. In a selection between Kenyan built solutions the usual beauty-contest evaluation criteria will be used. In government defined priority areas, a 50% solution will be accepted in order to grow Kenyan capacity in those areas. Start-up ecosystem: Kenya has a healthy and growing start-up ecosystem centred on 19/37 November-2019