Tag Archives: kenya

Google Developer Days Coming to Kenya, Uganda

Google is hosting two events in September to teach the use of Google technologies and products in Africa… Google is dedicated to making the Internet relevant ...
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OpenStreetMaps to Map Kenyan Slum

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

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?

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

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

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

#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

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

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

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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