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AFCON27 Preparations
(2024-06-20) Namwamba, Ababu
The AFCON ’27 bid team led by CS Hon. Ababu Namwamba, EGH was accorded a grand reception, following the team’s triumphant campaign for the rights to host AFCON ’27 under the banner East Africa Pamoja Bid, jointly with Uganda and Tanzania.While addressing the press, CS Ababu thanked the heads of state from the three East African regions for their unwavering support for the bid.
RECORD KEEPING PRACTICES IN SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESS ENTERPRISES IN VIGAENI WARD, MTWARA-MIKINDANI MUNICIPALITY, TANZANIA
(2018-12) ghasia, bibie
Record keeping is an essential requirement for the success of small and medium business
enterprises (SMEs). Good record keeping has a positive impact on SMEs as it enables
business enterprises to make appropriate business decisions, ensure survival of business
and also monitor and evaluate business success. Despite the crucial role played by good
record keeping, most SMEs in Tanzania conduct their businesses without adherence to
proper record keeping practices and those that keep records don‟t manage them well. The
aim of the study was to investigate record keeping practices in Small and Medium
Enterprises in Vigaeni Ward in Mtwara-Mikindani Municipality, Tanzania with a view to
proposing appropriate strategies to enhance record keeping and business performance of
SMEs. Objectives of the study were to: establish the knowledge base and understanding
of the importance of business records; examine the manner in which business records
affect business performance of SMEs; determine the manner in which business records
are managed from creation to disposition, and propose strategies to improve the
management of business records in SMEs. The study was based on the Records
Continuum Model and Decision Usefulness Accounting Theory. A qualitative research
design, with some aspects of quantitative research design was adopted for the study using
a case study approach in data collection and analysis. Purposive and convenient sampling
techniques were used to sample 83 respondents including business officers. The study
found that SMEs in Mtwara-Mikindani Municipality were not practicing sound records
management, lack of appreciation of the importance of business records by business
owners and employees had contributed to poor management of records in SMEs, absence
of business policies and guidelines as well as enforcement mechanisms undermined
business performance in SMEs. The study concluded that although the SMEs recognized
the importance of business records, these records were poorly managed. The study
recommends that the municipality should prepare training programs on proper record
keeping and the Ministry of industry and trade should consider implementing a policy
that makes records management mandatory for SMEs owners, managers and employees.
The study recommends that Mtwara-Mikindani Municipality provides support for records
management through training of business owners, managers and employees; funding of
records management activities; development of records management policies and
guidelines; and last but not least, development and implementation of records retention
and disposal schedules for business records.
Information literacy as a site for anticipation: temporal tactics for infrastructural meaning-making and algo-rhythm awareness
(2020-11-30) Haider, Jutta
Purpose–Thearticle makes an empirical and conceptual contribution to understanding the temporalities of
information literacies. The paper aims to identify different ways in which anticipation of certain outcomes
shapesstrategies andtactics for engagementwith algorithmicinformationintermediaries. The paper suggests
that, given the dominance of predictive algorithms in society, information literacies need to be understood as
sites of anticipation.
Design/methodology/approach– The article explores the ways in which the invisible algorithms of
information intermediaries are conceptualised, made sense of and challenged by young people in their
everyday lives. This is couched in a conceptual discussion of the role of anticipation in understanding
expressions of information literacies in algorithmic cultures. The empirical material drawn on consists of semi
structured, pairinterviewswith6117–19yearolds,carriedoutinSwedenandDenmark.Theanalysisiscarried
out bymeansofaqualitativethematic analysisin three steps and alongtwo sensitising concepts– agencyand
temporality.
Findings– The results are presented through three themes, anticipating personalisation, divergences and
interventions. These highlight how articulating an anticipatory stance works towards connecting individual
responsibilities, collective responsibilities and corporate interests and thus potentially facilitating an
understanding of information as co-constituted by the socio-material conditions that enable it. This has clear
implications for the framing of information literacies in relation to algorithmic systems.
Originality/value– The notion of algo-rhythm awareness constitutes a novel contribution to the field. By
centring the role of anticipation in the emergence of information literacies, the article advances understanding
of the temporalities of information.
Keywords Social media, Temporality, Algorithms, Information literacy, Time, Anticipation, Prediction,
Algorithm awareness, Media and information literac
Environmental and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP)- Negotiated Version
(2023-05-19) Ministry of Youth Affairs, Arts and Sports
The Republic of Kenya (the “Recipient”) will implement the National Youth Opportunities Towards Advancement Project (the “Project”), with the involvement of the Ministry of Youth Affairs, The Arts and Sports (“MYAAS”), Micro and Small Enterprises Authority (“MSEA”) and National Social Security Fund Board of Trustees (NSSFBT) as the Project Implementing Entities, as set out in the Financing Agreement. The International Development Association (the “Association”) has agreed to provide the financing for the Project as set out in the referred agreement.
Kenya Youth Development Policy 2019 (Popular version)
(2019)
The Policy is important in achieving the aspirations of the country and in particular the Kenya Vision 2030. The Policy is written in the context of the Constitution of Kenya (2010) existing sectoral policies, national development plans, international policies and charters to which Kenya is a signatory including: the Charter of United Nations, African Youth Charter, the Commonwealth Youth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations World Programme of Action for the Youth to the year 2007 and beyond; the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, 2030), African Union (AU) 2063 Agenda and the United Nations (UN) Youth Strategy.