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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 ...

The Power of Open: my reflections

I said yesterday that, I am likely to have more to say as part of the discussion started by Nathaniel Heller of Global Integrity Commons, wherein he wondered whether Open Data is a good idea for the Open Government Partnership. Of course, I hold that ...

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 ...

Fire. Again. With Political Melodrama (yawn.)

I'm sorry, I am completely unable to feel distraught or more than passively chagrined by the unfortunate events at Sinai slum in Nairobi. I am a little annoyed with the government and Kenya Pipeline Company because I hear (and I really haven't read much about ...

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.

Samuel Wanjiru… & Boys.

I yesterday posted a disturbed email to a listserve called ConcernedKenyanWriters and an interesting discussion ensued that helped me to clarify my position on the question of men and boys development in society today. Because of its importance, I have unilaterally decided to publish the ...

EGYPT RIGHT NOW

In Solidarity with Egyptians, and with the blogger, Sandmokey (of the Suspended sandmonkey.org - who on twitter can be followed on @sandmonkey), I am posting this essay below by Sandmonkey. It tells of the current state of egypt. Al Kags   EGYPT RIGHT NOW By Sandmonkey I don't know how ...

The People’s Parliament – Bunge La Wananchi

In 1978 when Mzee Kenyatta died, the cost of a 2kg packet of maize flour was Kshs. 2.80. On December 27, 2002 maize flour cost was Kshs 27. During 24 years of Moi's rule, the price of Unga had increased by Kshs 24, an average ...

WSF: great talk, no walk

A follow up article by Al Kags. A little more than a week ago, I asked a question – or a series of questions that left me castigated left right and centre by the online socialist community. My question was specifically related to the World Social ...