Dedan Kimathi “I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”
Barack Obama “I think when you spread the wealth around it is good for everybody.”
*iHub_ Kenya’s first public incubation and innovation centre is fired up and ready to go. Talking to iHub Manager and Founding member Jessica Colaco one can almost feel like grabbing a tent and camping here…
This is primarily because a lot of goodies await those techies with ideas in their heads and the drive to make [...]
I spent the better part of my Saturday interacting with the boys at Google Kenya.
Amhed Maawy gave us a brief overview of what services Google is offering within the Kenyan Space.
They are:
Google Search
Google Site
Google Mail
Google Blogs
Google News
Google Chrome
Google App Engine
He also officially invited the members to the group. You can also join at
http://groups.google.co.ke/group/nairobigtug?hl=en
Next up was [...]
China continues to do business with Africa and this had led to an acrimonious debate on whether this is good or bad for the continent.
Many protagonists of the China Africa relationship say that Africans after so long are finally tired of the endless manipulations of the west which for many years have led to the [...]
Whive.com Kenya’s social network and the 1st Winner of Nokia’s Open Screen Fund in Africa is set to launch its mobile application for WAP and Nokia s40 and s60 mobile phones.
This will allow ordinary Kenyans to upload and share content in either Swahili or English.
Content includes:
1. Blogs [Visit]
2. Forum Discussions [Visit]
3. Articles [Visit]
4. Classifieds [Visit]
5. IM and Private [...]
Opening Remarks
Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to the second day of the first Mobile Web Conference in East Africa. Technology today, in particular Mobile and Web technology is increasingly becoming an essential part of our life. Today more than 30 percent of East Africans have access to mobile phone technology. Internet adoption in this region is [...]
Here is the Whive.com Mobile Web East Africa Presentation.
MOBILE WEB TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL PROGRESS
Social Progress Social Media
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INTRODUCTION
Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen, and thank you for coming to my presentation, which is about mobile/web technology and social progress in East Africa. As you have heard i am John Karanja the Founder of Whive.com a [...]
The Mobile Web East Africa conference will be held in Nairobi on 3rd and 4th February at the Hotel Intercontinental. I will be giving a lecture on Web/Mobile technologies and social progress.
Also speaking will be a whole host of leading experts and businessmen from the East African region and beyond. You can see the full [...]
Having spent almost 4 days including today moving up and down London’s High street shops looking for the best mobile phone around, and having finally settled on Nokia N97 and the iPhone 3GS as the most likely candidates to meet that requirement. Google needed to pull one out of the hat to convince me that better was [...]
Kenya’s economy in the past decade has made great strides despite numerous challenges most notably the 2007-2008 Post Election Violence as well as endemic corruption, cronyism, and elitism that make up some of the systemic challanges and failures of Kenya’s political and social setup.
Kenya Business 2009 Round Up
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2009 has been a great year for Kenya’s technology scene, first with the worldwide buzz about the world first fully deployed mobile payment system Mpesa [Read: Article 1 | Article 2] to the success of homegrown crowd sourcing software Ushahidi which in recent days has been received a grant to further develop its Open Source [...]
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