Take Back the Tech Campaign – Show your Support
The Take Back the Tech Campaign has been launched in conjunction with the global 16 Days Against Violence Campaign. The Campaign is being used to highlight ways in which technology can be used to...
View ArticleKenya’s Mobile Revolution
Catch BBC’s webcast on the mobile phone revolution in Kenya (Hat tip Sameer!). AOB: The Acumen Fund is now accepting applications for fellowships – deadline is Jan 31, 2007. They are a great...
View ArticleQuick Hits
- New model for wireless internet? - On why telling a black person thatthey are “articulate” is not a compliment. - 2008 aspirants get their blog on. - Interesting model for smaller scale VC funding –...
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Announcing Bar Camp Nairobi
First, thank you all for your kind words. Have to figure out how to fight off the punks down the road. We are doing well though Mama has to learn how to survive on catnaps since the concept of sleep is...
View ArticleGeekery
I’m still without an ADSL line so in between that and Gabriella, my surfing is spotty at best. The 3-G card hookup was fantastic like for a week and a half then the speed dramatically dropped…classic...
View ArticleQuick hits!
- Presenting Jahazi (thanks Riyaz for initial heads up…man there’s lots of things buzzing in Nairobi, can’t wait to spend more time there). Can’t wait for it to go mobile and very happy to see Kenyan...
View ArticleFree wireless in Nairobi
Apparently KDN is offering free wi-fi in Nairobi (think it’s a promotion for their Butterfly product). It’s supposed to last through the end of the month. If you have a wi-fi enabled laptop, PDA etc....
View ArticleM-Pesa featured in the Christian Science Monitor
They expect to have 1 million customers by Jan 2008! Click here for the story.
View ArticleAnd yet another post on women in tech
The recent “Women in Tech” (disaster) panel at Techcrunch reminded me of a long overdue post I’ve been wanting to write on the absence-of- women-in-tech debate that’s being doing the rounds over the...
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