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Often I get questions on how one can be a blogger, writer, make money from blogging etc… I usually respond to questions directly but most of them require one-on-one lengthy sessions, so they may not be as sufficient as I…
In December 2004, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers held its first meeting in Africa. It came from the call for ICANN to demonstrate that it was international enough, and what better way than to rotate the meetings…
African domains left a comment on an earlier post on .ke. I thought its better to publish the piece, so that its just not me. Here we go …. ” I always hear the same argument whenever I complain about…
This week, Orange and Safaricom were busy launching higher speeds on the 3G network. As usual, Safaricom was the first to launch and few days later Orange did. Safaricom invite said that the speeds were increasing from 14 megabits per…
For the last two years, the debate has been on lowering the cost of connectivity, consumers feel we are paying too much while operators feel that they need to recoup their investments and therefore the costs must remain high. Even…
Just in case you were wondering what peering and interconnection is all about, its the climax of that debate on local content and reduction of internet costs. To understand the debate well, you need to be clued in basic tech…
Last week, there was a huge debate over digital signal distribution contract given to a Chinese firm- Pan African Network Group. The main dispute came to the fore after Nation Media Group and Royal Media Services lost a procurement appeal….
A few weeks ago, I attended Pivot 25 conference, a very interesting was to expose Kenyan start-ups and innovations to opportunities both local and abroad. It was nice to see people asking tough questions and realistic ones at that. One…
In January, it was announced that the first generation of internet addresses, commonly known as Internet Protocol version 4 was depleted. Globally, organizations can only use the new generation- IP version 6. But in Africa, we still had a block…
I have been meaning to write this post for a long time, I have become such a bad blogger-blame it on pursuit of money. So, when Safaricom invited me for a journalists training, I decided to hold until I saw…