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Fri, February 8th, 13:30 · Robin Okuthe

Safaricom donates 50 million SMSs towards Kenya’s peaceful electioneering

Safaricom, in partnership with national integration-focused nonprofit Sisi Ni Amani-Kenya (SNA-K), has launched an SMS-based platform expected to circulate information essential for maintaining peace during Kenya’s political campaign period. → Read more
Fri, February 8th, 09:35 · Vincent Matinde

Kenya ICT Board to launch cyber-security framework

The Kenya ICT Board will next week launch the first draft of the National Cyber Security Masterplan framework detailing solutions to cyber threats. → Read more
Fri, February 8th, 08:30 · Elly Okutoyi

Safaricom among world’s most devoted brands on Twitter and Facebook

Kenyan telecom Safaricom has been ranked as the world’s second and fourth most devoted brand on Twitter and Facebook respectively, the only African firm in the top 10 of both rankings. → Read more
Fri, February 8th, 08:01 · HumanIPO

Guest Post: Rising holiday-week app downloads may signal something much darker

Kageni Wilson is a technologist, innovator, writer, entrepreneur and trend watcher. He is the founder and CEO of ionacloud, a cloud-based file storage and sharing service. In an exclusive guest post for HumanIPO, he looks at the underlying reasons for the spike in app downloads over the Christmas period. → Read more
Thu, February 7th, 14:04 · Elly Okutoyi

OPINION: Digital migration in-fighting could leave African nations behind

Disturbing trends in the analogue to digital television broadcasting migration have been reported lately in some African countries, with a number admitting they may miss the June 2015 deadline set by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). → Read more
Thu, February 7th, 13:04 · Elly Okutoyi

Buni TV hits 1 million views

Buni TV, a major African video-on-demand platform, has announced it has reached the one million views milestone, with 60 percent of its traffic originating from Africa alone. → Read more
Thu, February 7th, 09:48 · Robin Okuthe

Samsung and MultiChoice in deal to speed up Kenya’s digital TV migration

Samsung Electronics has partnered with MultiChoice Kenya, a pay TV company, to run a promotion that rewards consumers with a free decoder for each purchase of a television set. → Read more
Thu, February 7th, 08:26 · Kamau Mbote

Kenyan politicians warned on politicising RMS frequency row

Kenya’s National Steering Committee on Media Monitoring has warned politicians against inciting members of the public by politicising the Communications Commission of Kenya’s (CCK’s) disconnection of 17 transmitters owned by Royal Media Services (RMS). → Read more
Wed, February 6th, 15:28 · Gythan Munga

Kenya’s Internet users invited to participate in online opinion polls

Kenyan ICT company Ajibu Consulting Limited has launched a Web-based opinion poll, coming hard on the heels of a partnership between Google Africa and the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to offer electoral data through the IEBC API. → Read more
Wed, February 6th, 15:20 · Vincent Matinde

XRX Technologies launches business tools for SMEs

Kenyan ICT solutions firm XRX Technologies has launched a business tool that enables small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to apply technology regardless of their bases of operation. → Read more
Wed, February 6th, 15:13 · Kamau Mbote

Badiliko digital initiative raising Africa’s education standards

Badiliko, an African digital schools project, has vowed to improve access to technology and core infrastructure in schools by building capacity teaching and engaging policymakers to enable them to apply ICT in raising education standards. → Read more
Wed, February 6th, 12:45 · Kamau Mbote

Valentines Day launch for Kenyan ICT master plan

The blueprint of the delayed Kenyan National ICT Master Plan will be released on February 14, more than two months after the date originally set by the Kenya ICT Board. → Read more
Wed, February 6th, 09:53 · Vincent Matinde

Safaricom employee joins elite club of IT specialists

Jimmy Mwangondi, an IT staffer at mobile network operator Safaricom, is the only Kenyan in an elite crop of 20 Africans who hold the prestigious Oracle Certified Master certification. → Read more
Wed, February 6th, 09:26 · Vincent Matinde

IBM to work with Kenyan universities in grooming IT professionals

IBM has partnered with a number of Kenyan universities to help them “breed the next crop” of qualified IT professionals. → Read more
Wed, February 6th, 09:03 · Kamau Mbote

Court rules CCK can disconnect Citizen TV’s illegal transmitters

The Kenyan High Court has given the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) the go-ahead to disconnect the remaining 17 transmitters it claims were installed illegally by Royal Media Services, the owner of Citizen TV, installed illegally. → Read more
Wed, February 6th, 08:06 · Brandon Gregory

Social media hate speech in Kenya undeterred by government warnings

The implications of social media hate speech surrounding Kenya’s upcoming general elections may have serious consequences, prompting the Kenyan government is monitoring social media sites. → Read more
Tue, February 5th, 16:08 · Vincent Matinde

Entertainment site Ghafla records 2 million page views in January

Kenyan infotainment site Ghafla has announced a milestone, accumulating over 500,000 visitors and two million page views in January alone and earning a place in the list of the most visited sites in the country. → Read more
Tue, February 5th, 15:53 · Kamau Mbote

Orange Kenya’s new promotion rewards customers bonus airtime

Orange has assured its customers on the prepaid network of 25 percent bonus airtime for every new topup they make between February and March. → Read more
Tue, February 5th, 13:57 · Vincent Matinde

Maasai Mara smartcards may render many jobless

Thousands of youths could lose job opportunities as the Maasai Mara smartcards come into use, according to a new report. → Read more
Tue, February 5th, 10:54 · Tefo Mohapi

Safaricom awards CommProve network management contract

Kenyan operator Safaricom has awarded mobile monitoring company CommProve a network management contract in a bid to leverage their "next generation network monitoring solution". → Read more