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While the citizens of Egypt’s primary focus may be somewhat distracted from the country’s future competitiveness in the global ICT (more)
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7 days agoQ&A: Digitisation will push government trust “through the roof”
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Kenya is a rich nation in terms of resources and manpower, but it is not creating enough jobs to fulfil the many youths in the job market.
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11 days agoREVIEW: Parrot Zik headphones
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16 days agoREVIEW: Sony Xperia Z, a real Android heavyweight?
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16 days agoOPINION: Mobile money tax punishes consumers for government blackhole
The Ugandan government has followed Kenya in taking the extreme step of introducing a tax on mobile money, punishing consumers for a (more)
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17 days agoOPINION: Laptops a threat to teachers’ employment but have wider benefits
A few days after the Kenyan government allocated KSh53.2 billion (US$621 million) for the supply of laptops to primary schools, teachers (more)
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24 days agoHumanIPO Debate: Should governments be allowed to monitor data records in interest of national security?
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24 days agoOPINION: Why Ndemo was shown the door
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Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has begun the process of auditing its systems after the controversies (more)
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Kenya’s premier ICT conference brought together close to 500 stakeholders from sectors as diverse as infrastructure, solutions and (more)
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HumanIPO reported yesterday stakeholders in Kenya had met for a forum on national cyber security, partly geared towards tackling the (more)
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OPINION: Language a tool in tech landscape development
Language and technology are two very marriageable subjects, considering its mutual factors of transfer and encryption.
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Conrad Travis David, social media strategist at Hashtag spoke to HumanIPO about social media as a strategic network of globally beneficial (more)
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MWWA2013 Day Two: Are game developers on another planet?
In the midst of the multitude of presentations made at yesterday at Mobile Web West Africa 2013, the session for game developers stood out (more)
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Q&A: Seun Osewa, founder of Nairaland
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OPINION: Social media is as real as its users
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OPINION: NCC may be getting it right this time with MNP
Attention seems to have switched to the Nigerian subscriber for the first time since the advent of Global System for Mobile Communications (more)
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OPINION: What Tanzania and Zimbabwe can learn from Kenya’s BVR fiasco
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Duncan Arthur, an independent payments, mobile and African banking expert, has written an open letter calling on primarily non-African (more)
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