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John Githongo’s blog

So John Githongo decided to make his latest revelations on Anglo-Leasing via his blog. There’s a whole lot the typical smoke and mirrors from the government combined with the sensationalism from the local media that has become par for course with the Anglo-Leasing story. I am going to focus on something that struck me as […]

Happy Birthday to me!

The big 3-0.

Wah!!!!

Hopefully, I will have something more introspective to write later on.

Political idiocy exemplified

I rarely comment on Kenyan politics anymore, because the shenanigans keep reaching new heights of “you-gotta-be shitting-me!”

Once in a while, I’m drawn out of a my self-imposed ban by instances of “you-gotta-be-totally-fucking-shitting-me!”

Today’s violent dispersion of the ODM march is one of them.

I have little regard for the ODM. Maybe […]

Developments in Kenya’s ICT sector

I was reading through the latest edition of the Computing Connections newsletter and couldn’t helped but be impressed by a number of developments in the ICT sector. Hard to believe that as recently as 2003, wi-fi and VOIP was illegal in Kenya.

Though there is still much progress to be made, the landscape […]

Quick Hits

I’m on the road so posting will be light until the end of next week…

– The KNCHR report on the referendum (which I worked on) is out, you can download it here.

– Interesting community wireless mesh model.

– Pioneering, microloans online – the Kiva story on PBS. (Hat tip Ethan!)

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More quick hits

– How can this be the website for the Ministry of Youth Affairs? No wonder folks are worried about the “Youth Fund”.

– Afrophone Wikis – a discussion group on developing Wikipedia in African languages (Hat tip Ndesanjo!).

– On (brand) name schools and all in the U.S. I had ambitions of a longer […]

KICTANET online collaboration course

Deadline is Friday August 18th Succesful participants shall be sponsored to present their findings at the planned National ICT Bill Workshop.

KICTANet shall be running the above 1-day course on August 25th 2006 at the KCCT City Center Campus (Telposta Towers 4th Floor – NAIROBI).

The course shall demonstrate the use the following Online tools […]