I am excited that President William Ruto appointed Philip Thigo as Special Envoy for Technology, the first in Kenya. I have known Philip since around 2011, as he has been in the trenches of developing our ICT industry from when …
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#LongRead In the early, heady days of the internet, a boundless frontier of digital innovation was promised—a digital utopia where anyone could make their mark. Fast-forward to April 2024 and this dream has been co-opted by a handful of tech …
I travelled 40 hours from Nairobi to Uruguay to attend the first Data Festival after COVID-19. The event underscored how the world seems to have paused for those three years since 2020. On day zero, I attended a couple of …
In response to my last two blog posts (this one and this one), I have been asked what role I think National Statistical Organisations play in citizen-generated data. Here goes. In the dynamic world of data, where each number and …
The Nuance of “Citizen-Generated Data”: Why It’s More Than Just “Citizen Contributions to Data” and “Citizen Data” In my last post, I argued that Citizen-Generated Data should be kept true to its essence that it is by Citizens and for …