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The GSMA is the global association for the world's mobile operators. Back in 2010 when the iHub first opened, we had some of their staff who were in Kenya working out of the iHub and using the space for different meetings. They loved the vibe and makeup of the Kenyan tech community and wanted to [...]
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Why do we rely on equipment made for the Berlin, Orlando and Tokyo when the conditions we have in Nairobi, Lagos or New Delhi are completely different? Today we're announcing the BRCK: The easiest, most reliable way to connect to the internet, anywhere in the world, even when you don't have electricity. We have a [...]
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No organization is in a better position than the GSMA to get data on mobiles globally. After all, they're the global association for almost all of the world's mobile operators. When they release a report, it's worth looking at. This time they've done a great job of putting some of their research and statistics into [...]
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If you were blogging back in 2005, it was amazing to see the talent and energy found in the African blogosphere, and Kenya was a leader amongst the countries involved. I've spent a lot of today working through 350+ blogs who were nominated for different prizes for the annual Kenya Blog Awards put on by [...]
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[Last week I had a security problem with WordPress, which is fixed now, my apologies for any inconvenience] Pivot East, our East African pitching competition, will be held in Uganda for the first time this year. Get your applications in, and plan your travel for June 25-26th in Kampala. Bosun Tijani and the ccHub are [...]
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[Note: we'll have a full report out later this week, you'll find it on the Ushahidi blog.] The elections in Kenya this year have had a lot of drama, nothing new there. As I wrote about last week, Ushahidi has been involved quite heavily on the crowdsourcing side via Uchaguzi, which meant that we had [...]
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TL;DR - Kenya's IEBC tech system failed. I started a site to collect notes and facts, read it and you'll be up to date on what's currently known. Kenya's IEBC (Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission) had an ambitious technology plan, part based on the RTS (Results Transmission System), part based on the BVR (Biometric Voter [...]
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Just over 5 years ago, I was just like everyone else tuning into the social media flow of blogs, tweets and FB updates along with reading the mainstream media news about the Kenyan elections. We all know the story - thing fell apart, a small team came together and built Ushahidi, and we started building [...]
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Maker Faire Africa 2012 in Pictures from WhiteAfrican on Vimeo. I've long been a proponent of getting more spaces set up for hardware prototyping and making of things in Africa. I wrote about it first in 2010 (Hardware hacking garages), then again in 2012 (Fab Factories: Hardware Manufacturing in Africa). I'm one of the founding [...]
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I'm disconnected. Off-grid in the usually dusty and dry (though green currently) Tsavo region of Kenya with seven others from the Ushahidi team as we look into whether or not technology can be useful on the Rukinga Sanctuary. We're here to see if our technology, or the knowledge of what can be done with tech, [...]
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