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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 ...

Why not? Why can’t Kenya vote via SMS?

In my last post, I promised to share my musings on the Kenyan elections. I did muse a little on this subject at the NDI Conference on Technology and Transparency and in general, the faces of my audience told me that I am too simplistic ...

NDI Conference: Open Data and Elections

This past week I was invited by the National Democratic Institute team in Kenya to speak at a conference they organised in Nairobo to discuss the elections. They asked me to discuss lessons from the Kenya Open Data Initiative that might be useful in thinking ...