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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 ...

Kenya Open Data Initiative one year on

I have just returned to Kenya from a week-long trip to Washington DC, where I attended the International Open Government Data Conference (See the liveblog) that was co-hosted by the World Bank Group and the US Open Data Initiative, dubbed data.gov. Coming one year after the ...

Are Social media sites the future really?

Lately, I have been asked to contribute thought to managers on the subject of social media. Is it an annoying distraction propagated by a group of unfocused, flighty youth who have no social skills and who cannot spell to save their lives? Or is social ...

#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 ...

28Feb: Sing for Unity!

On 28th of February, I will stop what I am doing at 1pm, and together with many other Kenyans, sing the national anthem. For one minute and fourtyeight seconds, I will sing and remind myself of my responsibility to this great Nation to which I ...

Open Data Jan 2012: Media User Community Engagement

Kenyan media owners and open governance advocates resolved this week to urgently establish a national task force to promote data-driven journalism. The industry-led task force will explore practical ways for the media to tap into the government’s pioneering Kenyan Open Data Initiative (KODI), as well as pilot practical projects ...

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 ...