Category
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…
Ericsson has reported that approximately 40 percent of all phones sold in the third-quarter 2012 were smartphones. Data traffic for smartphones is expected to exceed the overall average by up to 12 times by 2018, mainly driven by video. Ericsson’s…
For the last five years, the Kenya ICT Board has been involved in several initiatives like BPO, content and the latest is Konza City marketing initiative. You can read more about ICT board here. The discussion on tech start ups…
Kenic has set its Annual General Meeting for Friday this week, to rubber stamp the board’s decision to fire all employees and start afresh. Contrary to past practices where the AGM comprised of registrars, government, internet businesses and basically anyone…
In a strange move, Sammy Buruchara, change manager, acting CEO (etc) at Kenic, the .ke registry, has issued termination letters to three employees on the payroll, in a move likely to cause friction within the government. The move comes barely…
Kenya Network Information Center (KENIC), is never short of drama. There seems to be something very wrong but no one seems to have the right answer; over the last month, three board members have resigned and the chair is said…
In September 2010, ICT Board announced that the Companies registry had been automated. You can read the update on ICT Board website. When I hear the word digitization, I think that the most basic functions will now be available at…
Since 2008, the government through the ICT Board has invested more than $ 6 million in local content generation and if you count the money for software and other services, then its $114 million, as part of the World Bank…
When safaricom announced that they were not making money on some of the data subscriptions, the question on many people’s mind was “how, with all that money and infrastructure?” For others it may have been that Safaricom wants to milk…