(BBC) – Kenya has great ambitions to establish itself as a tech-hub for Africa. But can it really keep up the pace of innovation? The BBC’s Egon Cossou visited iHub, Nairobi’s innovation hub. This functions as an incubator, bringing together creatives, developers and investors. He spoke to Jessica Colaco, manager of iHub, and Sam Gichuru [...]

Kenya’s recent referendum was a much touted success in the sense that it was violent free largely free and fair. Technologies such as Uchaguzi/Ushahidi are a part of the reason why. Watch CNN/Erik Hersman (co-Founder, Ushahidi) talk about the use of technology in tracking voting/electoral fraud in the just concluded Kenya referendum.  Nigeria should take [...]

(CP-Africa) – Provisional results reflect a landslide win for the yes vote according to Kenyan news site, the Nation. Kenya’s electoral board, the Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC) reported that  the Yes vote had 4,141,521 votes (67 per cent) against the No vote’s 2,054,946 (33 per cent). Contrary to the electoral violence experienced in December 2007, [...]

(CP-Africa) – Kenyans have started voting  today  for a referendum aimed at improving governance and promoting democracy. With support from President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga, a “yes” vote in the referendum aims to install a new constitution which would herald changes in the way government is run in Kenya including the installation [...]

…Historic…despite the criticisms here and there… After nearly two decades of waiting, Kenyans may finally receive a new constitution. Political leaders are calling for Kenya to support the proposed set of laws, but controversial amendments threaten its passage through referendum in the coming months. Kenya moved one step closer to reform last week when parliament [...]

Makmende is a Kenyan superhero who is derived from popular oldie action flicks. The character was created in a music video forthe song Ha He from the album 82 from Kenyan boy band, Just A Bandwidth. After the introduction of the character on Youtube, the character went viral first on Twitter where he was constantly [...]

Written by Anand Giridharadas in the New York Times “Could wiki technology find Osama bin Laden? Imagine if any Pakistani could send an anonymous text message to the authorities suggesting where to look. Each location could be plotted on a map. The dots would be scattered widely, perhaps, with promising leads indistinguishable from rubbish. But [...]