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12 days agoSafaricom in $120,000 flood rescue
Safaricom Foundation has donated a total of KSh10 million (US$120,000) towards the rescue efforts of flood victims after the Kenya Red (more)
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19 days agoBAKE awards to recognise Kenyan bloggers
The Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) is to host its second ever Kenyan Blog Awards, with the public asked to submit their votes to (more)
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20 days agoOnline gamers earn mosquito nets for Africa
Online game players in Kenya have to date raised 423 insecticide treated mosquito nets for donation to malaria infested areas, thanks to (more)
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21 days agoMay’s Connected Kenya conference to explore ICT in devolved government
The fifth annual Connected Kenya conference, bringing together techies, policy makers and development partners, will concentrate on the use (more)
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28 days agoMicrosoft aims to unlock Kenyan youth potential
Two hundred Kenyan college students will benefit from technical and financial support to help them realise their creativity following the (more)
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30 days agoMicrosoft launches Imagine Cup 2013 in Kenya
Microsoft has launched its Imagine Cup 2013 in Kenya, offering over 100 students the chance to represent their country in the worldwide (more)
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1 month agoInnovate Kenya challenge launches for solutions to local challenges
Global Minimum has launched the Innovate Kenya 2013 challenge, inviting high school students to submit tech solutions to locally pressing (more)
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1 month agoSafaricom welcomes Kenyatta’s ICT plans
Safaricom has welcomed the ICT plans set out in President Uhuru Kenyatta’s inauguration speech, with the company keen to work with the (more)
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1 month agoKenyan inauguration dominates social media
Social media was awash yesterday as Kenyans marked the inauguration of new president Uhuru Kenyatta.
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1 month agoTech central to Kenyan growth - Kenyatta
New Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta used his inauguration speech to say technology will be central to the growth of Kenya and reaffirm his (more)
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1 month agoInstitute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers President expected in Nairobi
Dr Peter Staecker, the president of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE), is to lead a high powered delegation to (more)
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1 month agoGoogle Doodle honours Wangari Maathai’s birthday
Google yesterday marked the 73rd birthday of the late Wangari Maathai with a Doodle in her honour across its Sub-Saharan browser pages.
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1 month agoZalego and Tecno award Kenyan developers
Tecno and Zalego have awarded 13 applications in Kenya’s Afmobi challenge which has been running in Kenya, Nigeria and Ethiopia.
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1 month agoMasterCard launches second wave of Project Inspire
MasterCard and UN Women Singapore kicked off the second wave of Project Inspire yesterday, setting aside US$25,000 for the woman that will (more)
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1 month agoEast Africa Com agenda revealed
The agenda for the ninth annual East Africa Com in May has been released, featuring mobile money and digital transformation as the themes (more)
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1 month agoMultichoice to sponsor AITEC’s Broadcast, Film and Music Africa conference
Multichoice Kenya will be sponsoring the Broadcast, Film and Music Africa (BMFA) conference to be held in Nairobi.
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1 month agoICC status conference on Kenyatta due tomorrow
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has tweeted that a status conference will be held on Monday regarding the trial of Uhuru Kenyatta, (more)
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2 month agoPublication of election results declaration sees IEBC site fail again
Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) website once again went down today following the uploading Form 34 (more)
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2 month agoOPINION: Cards, payments and mobile money an African passion lacking direction
From touring the exhibition hall and listening to two days of talks and presentations at the Cards and Payments Africa 2013 conference in (more)
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2 month agoAfrican election embarrassment down to people and processes, not technology
The lack of process and training given to people applying technology in African elections is the likely culprit when things go wrong, (more)
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2 month agoThe HumanIPO Debate: was technology used effectively during Kenyan election?
The Kenyan election is complete, with Uhuru Kenyatta emerging victorious in the much-anticipated polls. But with all the coverage of the (more)
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2 month agoKenyan I&M Bank looking at ATM biometric registration
I&M Bank, in Kenya, is investigating biometric devices to install into ATMs to tackle credit card fraud.
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2 month agoICC considers Kenyatta request to appear via video link
Judges of the Trial Chamber at the International Criminal Court (ICC) are considering a request by Kenyan president-elect Uhuru Kenyatta (more)
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2 month agoIEBC site back online
The website of Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is back online, having been inaccessible throughout the (more)
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2 month agoWe are moving ahead of the regulator - M-Pesa
Boniface Gitonga Mungania, business development manager for M-Pesa at Safaricom, has told the Future Bank Africa 2013 conference one of the (more)
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2 month agoCrowd-sourced election reports soar on Uchaguzi
Incident-mapping website Uchaguzi, which has been documenting the Kenyan elections, has seen crowd-sourced reports soar 480 per cent since (more)
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2 month agoM-Pesa celebrates 6th birthday
As M-Pesa celebrates its sixth birthday, Safaricom chief executive officer (CEO) Bob Collymore says the service has developed “beyond any (more)
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2 month agoIEBC chairman jumps to Safaricom’s defence
Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairman has absolved Safaricom of blame over the system failures during (more)
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2 month agoIEBC site may have been hacked
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission’s (IEBC’s) system may have been hacked, as the country turns to manual counting of (more)
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2 month agoSystems collapse causes counting delays in Kenya
Electronic systems collapse has delayed the counting of votes in the Kenyan elections, with regional election officials told to physically (more)
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2 month agoIEBC website down today
Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) website has been down all day, as the country awaits the results of (more)
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2 month agoUchaguzi documents incident reports from Kenyan election
Event mapping website Uchaguzi has at the time of writing documented 770 incident reports from members of the public during the Kenyan (more)
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2 month agoAl Jazeera implements Voices system to report Kenyan election
Al Jazeera has launched its Al Jazeera Voices SMS and audio system to enable citizen reporting of today’s Kenyan elections.
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2 month agoKenyans to report hate speech through Twitter hashtags
Kenyans have been encouraged to report hate speech and lies about the upcoming elections through Twitter via the hashtags #NipeUkweli and (more)
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2 month agoKenya ICT Board partners in Sing and Unite initiative
The Kenya ICT Board is one of a number of partners spearheading an initiative that will see Kenyans uniting at 1pm today to sing the (more)
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2 month agoQ&A: Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore
The regional vote-transmitting system provided by Safaricom for the Kenyan elections will be secure, and will reduce the possibility of (more)
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2 month agoSafaricom: voting results collection system safe
Safaricom says the system that will facilitate the electronic collection of regional voting results in the Kenyan elections is entirely (more)
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2 month agoTwo Kenyans first ever Africa Diaspora Fellows at global event
The Capital City African-American Chamber of Commerce (CCAACC), an African-American businesses promoter, has selected two Kenyan (more)
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2 month agoNew elections portal launched in Kenya
As Kenya approaches its most hi-tech polls, another election portal has been unveiled detailing news from different media houses.
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2 month agoIEBC computers stolen, may contain voter data
Two computers have been stolen from the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) offices in Kisumu, Kenya, which may contain (more)
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2 month agoFeature phones still king in Africa
Research unveiled by mobile content company biNu suggests there will be 990 million feature phones by 2016, highlighting the need to still (more)
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2 month agoMocality, Dealfish victims of too much Internet hype
The collapse of Mocality and the rebranding of Dealfish to OLX is due to too much hype on their platforms rather than their significance, (more)
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ICT experts advise African brands to embrace mobile Web
Brands are yet to realise the true value of mobile Web, according to experts, even though Africa’s Internet users primarily go online via (more)
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2 month agoKenya ICT Board launches Julisha ICT Survey report 2013
Kenya has witnessed an increase in Internet users to 17.38 million from less than 10 million in 2011, according to the Julisha ICT Survey (more)
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2 month agoKenya ICT Board to launch Julisha II Survey results tomorrow
The Kenya ICT Board will tomorrow release the findings of the study of the national ICT industry, Julisha II.
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2 month agoTechnology will prevent election rigging, IEBC boss assures Kenyans
Kenya’s electoral commission the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has said it has sealed all loopholes for rigging (more)
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2 month agoNairobi’s digital TV migration deadline set for September 2013
The Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) and the Consumers Federation of Kenya (COFEK) have finally agreed on September 15 as the (more)
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2 month agoElectricity biggest challenge to ICT expansion
A team of experts from the Linkoping University, the University of Nairobi and a number of other institutions of higher learning have (more)
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3 month agoFEATURE: Technology features in Kenya's democratic advancement
Growth in technology demand and use in Kenya has heavily influenced political campaigns in the country ahead of the March 4 polls.
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