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In the past four years, the tech space in Africa has grown beyond South Africa. It has provided investors and developers choices beyond South Africa, which for a long time had been seen as the source of tech innovations. It…
Over the years, I have had a chance to hear many people talk; some brilliant some not, I have listened and interviewed people with start up ideas and growing businesses and the struggle to break to the next level. In that…
In 2010, the Kenya ICT Board was formed, with the main agenda of catalyzing Kenya’s tech sector. Money was set aside for innovation grants, competition prizes and content grants. Several companies were formed and benefitted from the sudden surge in…
Five years ago, there was a heated debate online; both twitter and FB. Kenya developers, led by the late Idd Salim complained that Safaricom was busy paying lip service on its support of local tech ecosystem, yet it was busy…
Yesterday, Safaricom launched sh. 90 million Venture Capital fund, aimed at local startups seeking to scale. You can read the story I did here or Kachwanya’s take that the fund is a game changer or this one from Techmoran. You…
For the last five years, there has been a common chorus among local tech companies; they want more of the large government contracts. We all want a piece of that large cake. Most of the money spent on government tech…
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…
After five years at the helm of the Kenya ICT Board, Paul Kukubo is leaving his post as CEO and Taking over as the head of the East Africa Commodities Exchange. No website yet but you can read more about…
In the many years that I have been a tech journalist, I have had a chance to interview and listen to many people, some who have genuine concerns, others whine, while others have raw talent and they do not know…
Thank you for writing about this topic. First let me point out that I did say in my email that I was busy and not able to answer before early this week. So I’ll just respond directly here instead of…