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Reframe the conversation: tree cover is the issue

The solution to the challenges posed by climate change lies not only in reforestation efforts but also in increasing tree cover everywhere Listen to the Blogpost here, voiced by an AI reader Trees are vital to combating climate change because they play a significant role in ...

My wishlist for rebuilding Kenya: One

The electioneering period is over and President William S Ruto has taken to his office with an encouraging start. I buy his articulated philosophy that the government must take tough measures for more sustainable prosperity. I love the idea that he wants to reorient the ...

My Statement on Westgate Tragedy

My fellow Kenyans, Yesterday, we were jolted to find that yet again, we were under attack from a band of terrorists, who attacked and wantonly killed at least 59 people and injured over 175. The hostage situation that is ongoing at the Westgate shopping mall is ...

I am worried.

I am worried. What is worse, is that my worries are non-specific, nagging and lurking at the back of my mind constantly as I go through my day. On the face of it, I have every reason to be optimistic - we have a new ...

Open Africa: Kenya achieves another milestone

This week, as the world went through its annual routine of holding the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, a very significant global milestone was achieved: 38 governments of the world made known their strong explicit intention to adopt principles of Open Government  in ...

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.

Electric Cars: is Kenya ready?

Forget the major issues of availability of electricity and so on. Kenya, along with the rest of sub-saharan Africa, is among the countries that would most be affected by the whole question of Global Warming. Incidentally, the Kenyan middle class (and the East African middle ...