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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…
This week, ICT private and public sector bigwigs are meeting in Mombasa, in the annual talkshop knows as Connected Kenya. This year, the conference had five themes that you can read from Martin Gicheru. Like many or a few who…
The internet has been poor at Connected KE, which is good because it makes people concentrate more and not look at their laptops and phones and are not as cranky, I am sure folks at Orange and KDN, who are…
For the last four years, the Kenya ICT Board has held an annual Connected Kenya meeting, a forum where private and public sector folks meet to discuss ways to improve Kenya’s ICT status etc. This is my first time at…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…