Sometimes back, Wallace Kantai, a respect journalist hosted a panel on ICT. In the panel were equally respected businesspeople and within the audience, it was clear that there were not many women in ICT. And Kantai posed: Where are the women in tech business? Answers went round, with people saying that women are busy manning [...]
Bitange Ndemo, Permanent Secretary is the Ministry of Information and Communication is probably the most clued PS in the country. He is very active on mailinglists discussing ICT in Kenya and in Africa. For me, he has been great; I email him questions and the earliest opportunity he gets, he will respond. As a journalist, [...]
Some days back, I visited the ICT Board to chat with Victor Kyalo about the digital villages project. I remember when I wrote about the launch in 2008, there was so much hype and I wanted to find if the hype was still there. I found that there has been challenges, from recipients buying cars, [...]
Last week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) held its meeting in Beijing. These meetings are held in every region, and discuss emerging technical and policy issues relating to the internet. ICANN has several bodies but one of the key one and probably the most controversial is the Government Advisory Committee. Controversial [...]
This year’s African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF), organized by the Internet Society will be held 3-5 September 2013 in Casablanca, Morocco. The forum will focus on Policy Aspects of IXPs, Content, and Cross-Border Interconnections in Africa. The three-day program will bring together key stakeholders, including Internet service and content providers, IXP operators, research and [...]
When you think of technology development in East Africa, you think of Nairobi as the hub, the lead city. Internationally, this is the case, the PR and hype we have done is great, it makes Nairobi as the first stop for investors, techprenuers, idlers, graduates, those with companies that have failed elsewhere, venture capitalists and [...]
MultiChoice Africa has revealed that in the week before Easter, it will double its prizemoney – such that if you pay on time and enjoy unbroken services you could win KSh1.2 million in cash. This is part of the DStv REWARDS campaign to hand out large cash prizes to loyal subscribers . In the past five [...]
Few years age, a blogger wrote a blog post, largely addressing the issues faced by Safaricom advantage users. The thrust of the post was that Safaricom neglects its post paid users; they get no promos on double your airtime, they have lesser products etc. The blog post was stinging and had laid down several issues, [...]
About a month or so ago, Kenic, the .ke domain administrator shared the numbers that the registrars were pulling in. This was in a marketing campaign meant to increase the number of domains. The list was shared to all the registrars and I guess anyone who was interested. To me it looked like name and [...]
In the last few days, many things have been called into question, chief among them, the Independent Electoral and Borders Commission’s (IEBC) network. Many experts thought that it had been hacked, a especially after a Database error was reported. The DB error was multiplying the rejected votes by eight. In these emotional cases, one party [...]