Farewell Nelson
Today Africa - nay, the world - lost a great man. I never met Nelson Mandela but I feel as though I knew him as a friend, a father, a grandfather.
We shall mourn this great soldier who paid a great price - being jailed ...
Announcing Open2063: A civil Society network
Today, I was excited to be part of the launch of the Open2063 initiative, which is a network of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) that care about transparency, accountability and citizen participation. The initiative's purpose is to build this network of CSOs to contribute to Africa2063, ...
Kenya Airways: Perfecting the cattle class feel
My latest trip to Seoul, Korea was an enchanting one, filled with some very new experiences for me and I will write about those separately. On this post, I wanted to take the time to catalogue my flight experience which was remarkable in itself. I ...
Bureaucratic Nonesense
It would seem the frustrations by members of the public relating to government processes are common across the world. I was amused to read this on Facebook this morning and I realise that the Kenyan documents are not any better. Of course the most ridiculous ...
Lessons from KODI: Completing the Job
My friend, Alex Howard from O'Reilly Radar, asked me a question in September last year that I have wrestled with since: "What are the lessons learnt from the Kenya Open Data Initiative experience?" I have wrestled with this question all of this time because I don't take "Lessons Learnt"questions ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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