Comments on: Developments in Kenya’s ICT sector

By: Joe Donde

Joe Donde — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:00:39 +0000

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By: Juma Musa

Juma Musa — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:41:35 +0000

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By: toiyoi

toiyoi — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:02:26 +0000

Qeustion and opinions-anyone:
With only one commercial/private company operating an optical fibre backbone, how likely are biz and individuals in kenyans to see drop in cost (ie is competitive with the rest of the world) of bandwidth, given there will be no competition? Or is the govt likely to have a say in the operation of this backbone? How have countries such as India managed this issue of fibre backbone?

Good questions, will try and address them in a future post.

By: Abdurahman

Abdurahman — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:38:59 +0000

First few minutes of the broardcast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijsNmMZt9fc

By: Abdurahman

Abdurahman — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:16:28 +0000

Aljazeera English has just launched with a great new website, digg it and bookmark it and link to it.

By: Gathunuku

Gathunuku — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:56:04 +0000

Read the report, great work they are doing the minister and his PS.

“[...]On Software, we are negotiating with Microsoft to provide package deals to schools and Government. The response has been very positive compared with how much we paid for software in the past. We are also encouraging open source for those who can manage to use it.”

Perhaps some more effort on open source software then there’ll be no need for negotiations with Microsoft

By: Noli Irritare Leones » Blog Archive » Africa blogwatch

Noli Irritare Leones » Blog Archive » Africa blogwatch — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:15:53 +0000

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By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:58:54 +0000

Hi KP
Thanks for the article
My jaw almost dropped to the floor when i read this point in the story that said “Ndemo (who usually works in his office until midnight most nights and sometimes survives on four hours of sleep a day)

I couldn’t believe this was refering to one of OUR ministers!

Thanks also for the Mzalendo project-quick query-is it possible to include such similar items e.g. articles etc about our MPs, ministers, assistant ministers etc? such information makes it easy (for me at least) when it comes to making the vote count, especially in an up-coming election year