All posts tagged kenya

Time to go back to work after that long protracted Political Process. The greatest thing about is that there was no time when people felt like the country

It is decision time for Kenyans and we all hope that whatever the outcome, Kenyans will accept the winner and move forward.  It is great to see the

50 years after the independence, the so called leading ICT destination in Africa, still can not do tech simple things like  printing voting ballot papers locally. I have

It is campaign time and parties and coalitions are trying all they can , to out do each other. Jubilee coalition have portrayed themselves as the Digital campaign

A new mapping platform to monitor Kenyan elections 2013 has been launched .Uchaguzi is a joint initiative between Ushahidi, Hivos, Creco, Umati, and SODNET, seeking to deliver  unprecedented

Crown Paints Kenya Ltd, launched a peace campaign dubbed UNITING COLOURS OF KENYA. The UNITING COLOURS OF KENYA campaign is a bottom up approach in building peaceful Kenya driven

When the history of Smartphones in Kenya will be written, Huawei Idoes would definitely take some special mentions as the phone which introduced majority of Kenyans to the

Social Media has given people platform to air their views in a way never seen before. It is great , people need to debate issues, learn new things

Kenyan tech space is a study in contradiction. There are those who believe that it is hyped and people should take a chill pill while there are those

It has taken like forever but now  Nokia Lumia 510 is available in Kenyan market. Bruce Howe, General Manager for Nokia East Africa : “We are pleased to announce the

Tecno in partnership with Qualcomm  today launched the entry level smartphone N3 in Kenya. N3 is a dual SIM Android smartphone with Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM7225A chipset.  The device

Safaricom today  launched a new mobile money service known as M-Shwari. M-Shwari  is  partnership between Safaricom and CBA which runs on Mpesa and will be included on the

Finally President Mwai Kibaki  launched the Biometric voter registration process and expected go for the next 30 days. The good people at  the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission

Nokia today announced that the Nokia Asha 308 is now available for purchase in Kenya at an estimated retail price of KES10,500. The Nokia Asha 308 is a 2G-enabled

In the last week or so LG Launched C333 Triple-Sim handset into the Kenyan market.   The phone is a basic and the only interesting point is the fact

After writing this post which brought in a bit of controversy going by the comments, it is time to look at the broader picture of Kenyan tech scene.

High Expectations, big disappointment. I think that is how the Kenyan tech scene should be described at the moment.  Yesterday I tweeted about the rise of tech pundits

So the new CCK stats for the fourth quarter of the FY 2011/12 are out and here is the summary and my thoughts on some parts: As at 30th

Nakumatt plan to introduce the multi-currency  MasterCard prepaid cards in Kenya . The existing Nakumatt Cybercash loyalty card will be replaced with the Nakumatt Global MasterCard Prepaid card,