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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…
About three weeks ago, Nikolai Barnwell of 88mph accelerator or tech incubator did an interview with Reuters, explaining whey 88 was moving to Nigeria and closing its Kenyan operations. The article has since been reproduced locally and you can read…
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…
If you have been following debate on free wifi in counties……a guest post by @Kahenya Most first time Western tourists in India tend to assume that a snake is charmed by the sound of the charmer’s flute. I partly blame…
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…
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…