world view - Al Kags — Strategist, Social Entrepreneur, Writer

October 27, 2012

Reflections After Demo Africa: Getting Innovation out of Nairobi

Today, it was suggested that I am loosing my business touch - with regards to Kenya's development - and that I was getting perhaps a little too socialist in my ideas of what it would take to develop ICTs in the country. Certainly, Kenya has ...

October 7, 2012

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 ...

October 7, 2012

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 ...

September 11, 2012

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 ...

May 9, 2007

outsourcing

this a discussion on outsourcing

January 21, 2007

Hillary for President

If it was up to me to set the agenda for Hillary Rodham Clinton's Campaign and it was up to me to write a speech about it, this is it. Interestingly, as far as she is concerned, I atually believe it. This is certainly going to ...

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