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Open Data. Open up to a new world (random reflections)

I have recently been reawakened to the fact that the world is changing - at far more profound ways that I was aware of when I took my sabbatical from the information world in 2006. The major catalyst to this realisation was that I was roped ...

A new season, lessons of the recent past

It has been a while since I last blogged. While I was away, I have done important things: First, I went back into the private sector from a two-year stint in the civil society and a previous two-year stint in government. These past four years ...

“Call me Willy,” he says.

Today the new Chief Justice, Dr. Willy Mutunga, only one week old at the helm of the Judiciary signed up on Twitter and Facebook, rounding off the week in a now-characteristic refreshing way. His foray into social media is refreshing because of the usually ultra-conservative ...

Pivot25

PIVOT25: East Africa's Biggest Mobile Tech Event from Pivot25 Conference on Vimeo.

Samuel Wanjiru… & Boys.

I yesterday posted a disturbed email to a listserve called ConcernedKenyanWriters and an interesting discussion ensued that helped me to clarify my position on the question of men and boys development in society today. Because of its importance, I have unilaterally decided to publish the ...

Think with me

Its been a while since I blogged. During this period of silence I have been pondering a whole bunch of critical questions. These include:- 1. As the Connected Kenya conference came to an end a couple weeks back, what is the next frontier/ task for ICT? ...

UN Security Council with the Kenyan people

The Vice President and his team have wasted millions of Kenya shillings to go to the UN security council to ask them to support (read:authorise) the deferral of the ICC case against the Ocampo 6, who are expected to start answering to charges on April ...

Safaricom Innovation Board kicked off – and then disbanded.

See update at the bottom. Yesterday, was an eventful day at Safaricom. It was the day when the Safaricom Academy was launched - a partnership between Strathmore University and Safaricom. In the event, the character of the new Safaricom CEO was illustrated clearly by how he began ...

I sang the National Anthem and felt real.

At the beginning of this past week, on Feb 28, we paused at 1pm and sang all three verses of the National Anthem. I was one of the 9 people who worked to bring people together. It was great. I've had to take a week ...