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 ...
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 ...
Thoughts from a television series – When will Africa be there?
Every once in a while, I binge on whole seasons of TV series - sometimes to my own detriment. Lately, I'm binging on medical drama series, Private Practice. There's this scene in Season 2 where a neo-natal surgeon (I didn't know what this is until now) is ...
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 ...
Dreams of our sons & daughters, dare we imagine?
A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to spend half an hour with a 85 year old man who moved to Washington DC in August 1980 - the very month I was born. I had just finished a really heavy day at the ...
Talking about Business Intelligence @ICPAK
Today I had the privilege of speaking to Certified Public Accountants at the Annual Conference of ICPAK in Mombasa. The topic that I was asked to speak on was Business Intelligence as a driver for business growth. The presentation I made can be downloaded here.
Having ...
Long live the Diamond Queen, Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II is celebrating 60 years of her reign of the United Kingdom and its 15 territories. I have no real idea how this affects me - certainly it has not direct bearing in my life that I can see, but I, like many Kenyans ...
#OpenMD Week & Reflections on Generation Y
I am sitting in at Ataturk Airport in Turkey on an eight-hour overlay. I am headed to Chisinau, Moldova (Its a small Eastern European country that used to be part of the USSR in the bad old days). Today, Moldova is trilblazing in many areas ...
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