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Crowd Sourced Whive Appdate 4 Business Tips to make it in Kenya! Social Media Day with Mashable Nairobi Why government should enforce 40% local sourcing by Telco’s An iPhone 4G APP that could save lives.
 
Crowd Sourced Whive Appdate

Crowd Sourced Whive Appdate

Its been quite a while since i have written anything on Whive, but we have been busy working on a slew of applications all scheduled to be released on Alpha by the end of the year . Our first and perhaps most important App is the iKatiba Mobile Application which we released on beta about 2 [...]

Crowd Sourced Whive Appdate
4 Business Tips to make it in Kenya!

4 Business Tips to make it in Kenya!

Over the past 2 years SpaceKenya.com has gone from a business started in an Old Pentium 2 machine in a Cyber Cafe in the heart of Nairobi to a Medium sized outfit with an Office and a Data Center to serve our customers better. Here are 4 Simple tips that have seen us make this modest success [...]

4 Business Tips to make it in Kenya!
Social Media Day with Mashable Nairobi

Social Media Day with Mashable Nairobi

Social Media Day Nairobi was held at the iHub on 30th June 2010 and sponsored by Mashable. Here is the coverage of the day. http://www.whive.com/ is @ Social Media Day sponsored by @mashable will be covering the event here on this channels #whive#smdaynairobi social media day begins with introduction on what is social media by Joe #whive #smdaynairobi Panelist introduce themselves [...]

Social Media Day with Mashable Nairobi
Why government should enforce 40% local sourcing by Telco’s

Why government should enforce 40% local sourcing by Telco’s

The Kenyan Government back in 2008 introduced a 40% local content rule for Kenyan Television Stations and the result has been a rapid growth of local programming that has seen  fairly rejuvinated local production companies emerge. What has surprised many is that the Stations which had previously protested the move are now tripping over each other to secure [...]

Why government should enforce 40% local sourcing by Telco’s
An iPhone 4G APP that could save lives.

An iPhone 4G APP that could save lives.

The other day i was sitting at home waiting eagerly for a World Cup game, i happened to be scrolling the channels and decided to listen in on a Parliamentary session on Health Care in remote parts of Kenya. In this case the MP from Samburu North stood up to demand from the Minister of [...]

An iPhone 4G APP that could save lives.
Revolutionizing Health Care Delivery Dr Kahindi Shedrach

Revolutionizing Health Care Delivery Dr Kahindi Shedrach

12 February 2010

Due to popular demand I have posted Dr Kahindi Shedrach’s presentation on. I have also attached famous Blogger Bankelele’s notes on Kahindi’s presentation seeing that i have not had time to post my own. Dr Kahindi Shedrach, Medical Director, Angelic Missions Mobile Hospital (e-mail kahindig_at_yahoo.com, info_at_angelicmissions.org) spoke about how can medical professional can use mobile phone [...]

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TED Alex Tabarrok: How ideas trump economic crises

TED Alex Tabarrok: How ideas trump economic crises

24 October 2009

Have you ever wondered how we can find opportunities during the recession. Economist Alex Tabarrok argues free trade and globalization are shaping our once-divided world into a community of idea-sharing more healthy, happy and prosperous than anyone’s predictions This is a refreshing talk  by Alex Tabarrok on how we can all use our own ideas to [...]

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Dambisa Moyo at Oxford Seminar

Dambisa Moyo at Oxford Seminar

24 October 2009

Dambisa Moyo gave a talk about Exit Strategies for Aid for Africa at the Africa Business Network where she urged governments to pursue development. Aid according to her is an inhibitor because it creates DYSFUNCTIONAL governments and creates STIGMA amongst the African people. i.e. People will always ask for relief from donors and will not [...]

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Whoze got issuez?

Whoze got issuez?

24 October 2009

GotIssuez.Com a web startup currently operating out of Nairobi, Kenya was founded by a group of Strathmore University graduates namely Anthony Mwangi, Sarah Njeri, Esbon Wahome and Mark Kaigwa and Kevin Rombe.  It is a social platform that lets users from all over Eastern Africa speak their mind on Products, Brands and Service Delivery. It [...]

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Africa’s Cultural Renaissance

Africa’s Cultural Renaissance

11 September 2009

African governments finally agree to Protect Africas Cultural heritage. This is critical in empowering African communities to trade in cultural commodities as well as to protect cultural assets on an international scale. This is important because African artifacts have been stolen,pileaged and taken from the continent without a single penny reverting to the creators or [...]

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Posted in Africa5 Comments

Branding Kenya

Branding Kenya

04 September 2009

Well what is perceived by the word brand? Probably you are wondering where I am going with this. Well some months or years ago we had Tusker Supermarket a local self help store. The perception and reception by the public it was viewed as one of the underground local stores and unconfirmed sources said it [...]

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Posted in Society2 Comments

Kenyan Stock Market Update

Kenyan Stock Market Update

27 June 2009

Our markets have been unpredictable for the last couple of months and many analysts have fallen over themselves trying to determine which direction it will take. Many have tried to call its bottom-line and failed miserably because apparently, our market is like a pendulum, swinging daily in different directions at the behest of various market [...]

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Global Warming’s threat to the world’s young generation

Global Warming’s threat to the world’s young generation

07 June 2009

If one thought things could not go from bad to worse for Africans then am afraid one was grossly mistaken. The news coming out on world environmental day (June 5th 2009) painted a bleak if not scary picture for millions of Africans leave below the Sahara. Without the resources and human capacity required to meet [...]

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Posted in Society7 Comments

Open Source Applications Case for Business

Open Source Applications Case for Business

19 May 2009

Supportive Documents: The open-source model has a lot to offer the business world. It’s a way to build open standards as actual software, rather than paper documents. It’s a way that many companies and individuals can collaborate on a product that none of them could achieve alone. It’s the rapid bug-fixes and the changes that the [...]

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Kites can power cities. Or can’t they?

17 May 2009

As the world continues to sulk under the threat of imminent armageddon, hope comes to us from the most unexpected place, kites! Apparently if kites are flown high enough for long enough we can generate enuff energy to power huge cities. This is certainely an innovative solution to fighting the problem of global warming. Me suggests [...]

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