October, 2012 - Al Kags — Strategist, Social Entrepreneur, Writer

October 27, 2012

Reflections After Demo Africa: Getting Innovation out of Nairobi

Today, it was suggested that I am loosing my business touch - with regards to Kenya's development - and that I was getting perhaps a little too socialist in my ideas of what it would take to develop ICTs in the country. Certainly, Kenya has ...

October 9, 2012

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 ...

October 7, 2012

Make it okay to fail, and maybe development will fail forward

Blog post #2 from the Open Africa Summit, Zanzibar Until today, I had never met Rakesh Rajani, the great man who leads Twaweza. I knew of him by reputation and we came close to meeting on a number of occasions but today, we met at the ...

October 7, 2012

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 ...

October 4, 2012

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 ...

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Reflections After Demo Africa: Getting Innovation out of Nairobi

WE PROTEST: #KOT Against Mps Bonus

Make it okay to fail, and maybe development will fail forward

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

I support the Peremende Movement

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