Tag Archives: kenya

OpenStreetMaps to Map Kenyan Slum

November 3, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Kiberia, Nairobi’s million-person slum, will be mapped in November through a project initiated by OpenStreetMap and Jump Start International. OpenStreetMap’s Humanitarian team will collaborate with ...
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Safaricom to Pay Dividends Via M-Pesa

September 8, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Safaricom’s 829,000 shareholders have until the end of September to register to receive their dividends via the popular M-Pesa mobile payment service. Bankele reports on ...
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What Are They Doing Here?

April 29, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
What Are We Doing Here, the documentary film by a lot of brothers and one of their cousins is interesting. While it’s nothing new that ...
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Why Kelele Can’t Fail

March 27, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
I was probably overly excited by the news of a pan-African and International tech conference taking place in Africa when it was announced at Barcamp ...
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Top Social Networks as Countries

February 19, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
MySpace has the most registered users, reporting to have just 50 million less registered users than entire population of the United States at around 250m. ...
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Realtime Web Reports of Crisis in Kenya

January 28, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
#nakumatt_fire is the hashtag being used by citizen reporters to broadcast information about a horrific fire in downtown Nairobi. Even more telling is the following ...
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Web 2.0 Job Opening Round-Up

December 24, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
A number of pretty interesting job openings in the African Tech/Web/Software space this month… Geographic Specialist – Nairobi, Kenya – Google.com Google, the world’s leading search engine, ...
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Intel Offers WiMAX and Training to Kenya

December 23, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Intel, the inventor of microprocessors and the world’s largest semiconductor company has signed a contract with Kenya Data Networks (KDN) and Alcatel Lucent to offer ...
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African Businesses Predict Growth in 2009

December 16, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Africapractice published this press release that reveals high expectations for African businesses in 2009: Business leaders are still bullish about Africa for 2009. africapractice asked business ...
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt Backs Obama

October 21, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Google was one of the biggest backers of cleantech companies last year and Eric Schmidt recently revealed that he was advising the Obama campaign on ...
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