These are photos from the dotMobi registry meetup at the iHub yesterday. An interesting presentation was made by Francesco Cetraro who is the Business Development Manager for the registry. They have lots of web sites that are useful for mobile (web) developers. Here is the link to the photos which you can also tag.
Here is a link to photos from the Kenya ICT Board organized Tandaa Kenya meetup on local (digital) content from earlier this week. You can view them (and tag them!) here>
Here is a link to the photos from the MobileMonday (MoMo) Nairobi Chapter Launch that happened last night in Spring Valley. You can view them (and tag them!) here>
Below is the “full” Kenya Digital Study key findings summary on Internet usage that was presented a week ago to Media, Marketing and ICT Professionals by the ICT Board and TNS Research International. It was uploaded to the Kenya ICT Board web site just a couple of days ago:
Digital Kenya Key Findings March 2010
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This is an interesting development! Kenya Commercial Bank or KCB as they are better known and Safaricom have launched a marketing partnership called “Laptops for All” according to the news today. Basically, you can pay as little as Kes. 2,735.00 per month in loan repayments to KCB for 12 months to purchase a laptop.
The kicker in the deal and where Safaricom comes in is that the offer includes a free 3G modem with an initial 40MB of free data. If you look at this partnership what you can see is a win-win where KCB grows its loan portfolio and Safaricom gets more subscribers on its 3G Internet service which incidentally is still one of the most expensive in the marketplace on a per megabyte basis.
However, seems to me there is a hidden rider for KCB in the Laptops for All campaign. I have bolded it as per the terms and conditions below:
- Identify the laptop you wish to purchase from any Safaricom Retail Center near you.
- Go to any KCB branch countrywide and apply for the “Laptops for All” loan. This offer is open to both KCB and non KCB account holders.
- If you do not already have an account with KCB, simply open one at your nearest branch and apply for the loan.
- KCB will give you a voucher which you will use to collect your laptop from a Safaricom Retail Center.
Well, there it is. Safaricom gets your data and KCB gets your bank account. Pretty nifty if you ask me. Its not the front-end offer that matters – its the back-end “total customer lifetime value” they are both after, and they will get it!
This is a presentation I made this morning at the Kenya ICT Board’s Tandaa Symposium on (digital) local content. I talked about the some of the history of the Internet since in landed in Kenya (widely) around 1995 to-date as well as implications going forward where local content is concerned. You can view the SlideShare presentation below:
Tandaa Kenya Moses Kemibaro
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This is an article on the growth of the mobile web in Africa that was published in the March 2010 edition of CIO East Africa Magazine. Symbiotic’s Mbugua Njihia and I were quoted in the article following last month’s Mobile Web East Africa Conference. You can read the article here>
This is an article I wrote about what happens when technology fails us that was published in this week’s edition of the East African Newspaper. You can read it here>
Its finally here! ICANN 37 will be happening in Nairobi next week between the 7th and 12th of March 2010 at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC). There have been so many concerns that ICANN 37 may not have made it to Kenya after all the security warnings that kept coming up in the preceding months leading up to this point. However, we can now rest assured its actually happening! Nairobi had originally been slated to host ICANN 35 in 2008 but due to the post-election violence that year Kenya lost the slot. You can find out more information on the ICANN 37 conference which is free (yes, free!) to attend at the conference web site: http://nbo.icann.org/
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was formed 1998 as a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. ICANN promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet’s unique identifiers. ICANN 37 is being hosted in Nairobi by Kenya Network Information Centre (KeNIC) which manages the Kenya Domain Name Space (.ke). KeNIC was found to be best suited organization as the host for ICANN 37 since it is representative of the local internet community and has been established with the appropriate resources to move Kenya forward in the global world of the Internet.
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