InfoDev’s Kenya Focus Group for a Mobile Applications Lab in Africa.

InfoDev is an NGO working within the World Bank that held a stakeholder focus group this week on the 27th April 2010. I attended the focus group which brought together mobile application developers, mobile operators and other stakeholders to brainstorm Continue reading

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Kenyan Mobile Apps and Content to go on Nokia’s OVI Store.

Application Developers and Publishers in Kenya can now publish and distribute their mobile applications directly on Nokia’s OVI Store. The OVI self service tool provides an easy way to distribute and monetize local mobile applications and content by potentially reaching Continue reading

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Cisco TelePresence comes to Kenya.

Cisco has announced that its Nairobi office has become the first business premises in Kenya to offer Cisco TelePresence. Unveiled in Cisco’s Nairobi offices last week, the Cisco TelePresence solution offers a live, immersive, face-to-face experience which enables people from Continue reading

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CIO East Africa Interview on ICT Entrepreneurship.

This is a link to an interview I did with CIO East Africa for their April 2010 edition on the challenges of being an ICT Entrepreneur in Kenya, and the broader East African region. The interview can be read in Continue reading

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Mobile Monday Nairobi: Meeting 1.

This evening the Nairobi Chapter of MobileMonday held its first meeting for mobile application developers at the iHub. MobileMonday is a global community of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influentials fostering cooperation and cross-border business development through virtual and live Continue reading

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Nokia and the University of Nairobi launch Innovation Labs.

This has to be one of the most exciting developments for Kenya in regards to developing world-class mobile software services and products! Earlier today, Nokia Research Centre Africa (NRC-Africa) and the University of Nairobi’s School of Computing & Informatics (SCI) Continue reading

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