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Tech2Shags goes live in Malindi!

A few weeks ago, I wondered on this blog why it is that the Kenyan ICT industry, advanced as it is, is based in the city of Nairobi. I suggested an initiative to begin to develop ICT communities in other parts of Kenya – so ...

Getting Open Data to the people – An example: GotToVote!

I am really excited. Just yesterday, I was speaking at a conference organised by Development Initiatives in Nairobi, where Civil Society Oorganisations were thinking through how to work with Kenya Open Data Initiative, how they can use it and add value to it and so on. ...

Why I am likely to vote for Peter Kenneth

Its early days yet. The elections in Kenya are still about 100 days away - and I havent even registered as a voter (that happens on the 19th of November and I will be there bright and early to pick my card. The coalitions are ...

Poor, Poor Silvio!

Contrition Personified. Silvio, looking very sorry for his deeds. Silvio Berlusconi is back in Malindi, after being sentenced to four years in Prison. He is sure to rue the day he was born now...! The Huffington post reports that it is merely a "Healthy retreat" because he is ...

WE PROTEST: #KOT Against Mps Bonus

Today, Kenyans on Twitter (#KOT) staged a protest in Nairobi, which was against the Members of Parliament awarding themselves a Kshs. 10 million per person bonus (!) At a time,when teachers struggle to live and hospitals in Kenya have no services to treat our children, the ...

Interest of Gov’t same as Interests of the people?

Blog Post #1 from the Open Africa Summit, Zanzibar I write this on the flight back to Nairobi from Zanzibar’s Melia Hotel (the subject of its very own blog post later), where I attended one day of the Open Africa Summit. The Summit, brought to one ...

I support the Peremende Movement

About 2 weeks ago, I met a doctor, one of those that are on strike in Kenya, over dinner and I asked him why they are on strike. You see, I knew they were on strike and I had seen some of the footage in ...

Finally off Blackberry, I vote android

I have been a steadfast blackberry user for the past 7 years - making it a mainstream tool everywhere I have worked in that time. With mixed feelings, I now announce, that I am off the blackberry boat - and today, I am shutting down ...