On March 4th , 2013, The President, Senators, County Governors, Members of Parliament, Civic Wards and Women County Representatives will be elected. These elections will be different from past ones as they will be primarily governed by the new constitution that was passed during the August 2010 referendum. The default role of citizens is to exercise [...] Related posts:

An Open Experiment: Increasing Open Data Consumption in Kenya The Open Data Pre-Incubator (Part I) Background The open data...

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Mobile phone users across Africa are increasingly accessing data services. In Kenya, 99% of Internet users are accessing Internet through their mobile phones (CCK, Sector Statistics Report Q4 2011 - 2012). Nevertheless, a significant portion of African mobile phone owners are still not using mobile Internet on their handsets. While there is great potential to increase [...] Related posts:

Mobile Retail in Kenya InMobi, an independent mobile ad network, last Thursday (July 12th)...

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By Conrad Akunga (cakunga@innova.co.ke) Unless you have been living under the proverbial rock, you must have come across the term OpenData, either professionally or personally. However as with many novel concepts penetrating the local ICT lexis, much more heat than light has been generated about OpenData. The premise is simple. Government is the largest collector and [...] Related posts:

An Open Experiment: Increasing Open Data Consumption in Kenya The Open Data Pre-Incubator (Part I) Background The open data...

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AITEC East Africa Summit - Day 1 Kenya, and increasingly the rest of East Africa, now has the ICT infrastructure and services in place to be a world-class provider of IT-enabled services. The AITEC East Africa ICT Summit 2012 , 24th and 25th October at the Oshwal Centre in Nairobi; provides the platform to achieve [...] Related posts:

Focus on Smart Cities as AITEC Africa celebrates 25 years | October 24-25 2012 | Oshwal Centre, Nairobi The AITEC conference will focus on technologies that make cities...

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iHub Research (Nairobi, Kenya) conducted a week long survey at the iHub between September 20th and 24th to understand the consumption habits and preferences of Pete's Coffee customers. These findings were to supplement a content analysis done on data collected from M-Payer, a business application that Pete's Coffee uses to record daily transactions.  Key Research Findings The major findings from [...] Related posts:

ICT Hubs: Initial Pre-test Insights from iHub Assessing the Impact of African ICT Hubs to the Entrepreneurs:...

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By Supriya Singh Irene[1], 30, sits in a pandanus hut fringed by mountains in the Morobe province inPapua New Guinea and tells how her family of six lives on $2.79 a day. They grow 150 kg of betel nut that brings them about 1000 kina (roughly $500) a year. This is money from her husband's [...] Related posts:

Why Doesn't Every Business In Kenya Have A Mobile Money Account? Ignacio Mas and Amolo Ngw'eno carried out a research...

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The cost of mobile phones has decreased steadily, and what was once considered a luxury good is now a necessity for many Kenyans. In order to understand mobile phone usage at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) in Kenya, iHub Research and Research Solutions Africa conducted a 6-month study, funded by infoDev (World Bank). A [...] Related posts:

Mobile at the Base of the Pyramid  Globally, there are 2.5 billion people who live on less...

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As the Kenyan ICT industry grows, protection of intellectual property (IP) is becoming increasingly important. Protection of IP rights for computer software can be challenging, particularly in the area of patents. (Read More) . Below is Dr. Bitange Ndemo's, PS for Ministry of Information,  talk on protecting local innovation. He was speaking during the Intellectual Property [...] Related posts:

To Patent or Not To Patent? Protecting Computer Software On August 14- 15th, the Center for...

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Open Data has been viewed as the catalyst to improving the individual, society and economy through: Promoted transparency and accountability in the public and private sector - which then leads to a decrease in corruption and promotes wiser use of public resources. Making citizens aware of the resources they have and services they should receive, [...] Related posts:

An Open Experiment: Increasing Open Data Consumption in Kenya The Open Data Pre-Incubator (Part I) Background The open data...

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Visualization, according to Nathan Yau in Visualize This ,  is one of the best ways to explore and try to understand large data sets. The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas is launching its first "massive open online course" or MOOC, a new kind of e-learning program designed for a large number of students - it is free [...] Related posts:

Open Data for Development Camp 2012 The Open Data for Development Camp is part of The...

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