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ties as quickly and as affordably as possible. It means having the right infrastructure for, say, air travel, but also being able to hop onto a plane to meet a business contact in Kenya without the interminable red tape. It means being able to expand your business abroad with- out facing obstructionist attitudes from officials. There is also the matter of building a trans- parency infrastructure, which can promote honest, good business in a corruption-free environment. In this regard, it may be important to locate infrastructural renewal within the framework of ethics, social awareness, environmental sensitivity, and then, lastly, profitability. This will go a long way towards addressing the toxicity caused by corruption within the system. The picture is not entirely bleak, however. Setting up a business anywhere in the world is difficult. The fact is that high- growth entrepreneurs are tenacious, innovative and think out of the box. They leverage the infrastructure to which they do have access to create opportunities for themselves. I think you were talking about transparency infrastructure that can promote honest, good business in a corrup- tion-free environment. This is what the Transparency Initia- tive has been implemented to achieve. " " Josh Adler 11 ENDEAVOR WHITE PAPER 2013 From left to right: Josh Adler, Director: Centre for Entrepreneurial Leadership, Africa Leadership; Sunil Geness, Director: Government Relations & Corporate Social Responsibility, SAP Africa; Richard Dewing, Founder: Cibecs and Endeavor Entrepreneur; Pieter Rebeus, Independent Telecommunications Professional.