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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…
About eight years ago, I had a conversation with one of Kenya’s leading technology technocrats about outsourcing. This guy has been there since the days of Kenya Posts and Telecommunication, so when he spoke about anything technology, he commanded the…
Abdalla Omari is the new Kenic CEO. At this point I will stop counting coz it means the annual tradition of the board is; lets get a new CEO. Usually, when people join new organisations, they are asked what they…
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is set to host a talkshop next month. Why do I call it a talkshop? Because ICANN hasn’t held such a meeting to address key issues affecting Africa stake holders, they…
In the last two weeks, a group calling itself Anonymous Kenya has terrorized government folks by hacking social media accounts belonging to Kenya Defence Forces, their spokesperson and the deputy president. The response from government folks was just laughable. Just…
Kenic, the organisation tasked with managing the .ke domain, has a new CEO. Who may or may not know anything about heading a registry and how to make .ke more stable and resilient. For background on Kenic, you can read…
Last year, was the first time I read the Cyber Security report by TESPOK and Serianu, a security company. I remember thinking “why is this report so hollow?” but I thought it was because it was the first year and…
Last year, I attended the Women in Construction dinner. You guessed right, women shared stories of struggle to belong, get business or just get the right to sit on the table in big construction business. The stories went on and…
After a day of internet not working, Liquid Telecom got the internet up and running. There are about 400 people with more than one gadget, which probably makes the hitches understandable. I bumped into Paul Statham, Chief Commercial Officer at…
For those who have been following the tech sector closely, you will know that there is a lot of money floating around for big projects. The only challenge is that very few projects go to local companies; you can cite…