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Al Kags named New Generation Leader for Africa 2012

I am humbled and honoured to be named a New Generation Leader for Africa 2012, by the Africa Leadership Network. According to Fred Swaniker, famously of the Africa Leadership Academy, I was nominated from "thousands of candidated from the continent." Named this year to stand alongside African ...

All is well. I’m back on this blog

It really has been a long time since I last blogged. So as I start again, lets get you caught up on whats been up Nowadays, I ride a bicycle to work and back - when it isn't raining. I was inspired to do so during ...

Internet wins: Now what?

After what is billed the loudest internet protest in history, the highly controversial SOPA and PIPA bills, that were due to be voted on last week, have been shelved. US Senator Harry Reid and Representative Lamar Smith both announced that they would withdraw their bills ...

Shocking revelation of Google Scalping Mocality!

I am saddened that my first post of 2012 is a dismayed one, but I am so surprised and dismayed that I must post this. Stephan Magdalinski, the CEO of Mocality has posted a very serious charge that Google has been scraping its database, baiting and ...

Moses Kemibaro New Director of Sales @InMobi

Popular blogger and techpreneur, Moses Kemibaro is now the Director of Sales at InMobi Africa, the mobile ads company, joining Isis Nyong'o. Moses shocked people in the techspace when he decided to leave Dottsavvy Africa for Dealfish (a South African owned classifieds outfit). By the ...

East Africa’s First Real Soap Coming soon

I intensely dislike Soap Operas - revise that: I hate soap operas. I do not understand why tele-novellas are popular in this region. In fact, I tend to feel my braincells dying every time I watch them. But, my friend Alison Ngibuini has been working ...

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 ...

Pivot25

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

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 ...