Kenyan Pundit

Interesting idea.

They expect to have 1 million customers by Jan 2008! Click here for the story.

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. just search for the essid butterfly and connect. They are supposed to have around [...]

- 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 developers doing their thing.
- Also worth checking out, the Kenyan myspace – [...]

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 bait and switch…MTN is rubbish. I haven’t even dared to check my aggregator recently…opening my [...]

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 out the window.
Still no ADSL at home. I’ve [...]

- 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 – something like this would be easy to implement in Kenya.

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 organization doing interesting work and for those of you MBA-types who are thinking about how to make the leap [...]