AO: This article proposes that Nairobi's nickname of "Silicon Savanna" stems from "Kenya's love for IT." The author then goes on to suggest that the moniker "neatly...Read more
AO: The excerpt from the article below highlights Bitange's announcement about the Kenya Open Data initiative at Pivot 25 which took place in 2011. The article quotes him as saying: "All the data...Read more
AO: This is a digitized copy of the signature page of the informed consent that was reviewed by Participant BCMMDS13 prior to interview # 191204_001 and signed after the interview.Read more
AO: Lots of debate on this issue - sentiments that “Kenyan society doesn’t value research” which was pushed back against: “Academics don’t write things that society wants to read!”...Read more
2019 CODESRIA/ASAA pre-conference publishing workshop fieldnote excerpts
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I find it interesting that in the entire article, which includes descriptions about tech helping to fill voids on the "dark continent", race is not mentioned once. In the...Read more
Angela Okune: Sulaiman Adebowale notes the challenge of ensuring a journal's sustainability and thinks aloud about different ways that could be possible:
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AO: Some may view my uploading of these informed consent forms as simply another push towards an increased "audit culture" within the university (Strathern 1997) and greater politics of...Read more
This brief jotting of an encounter with a Kenyan employee at Org 2 reveals cynicism about why Kenyans don't end up having the highest "boss" jobs in the country... because they are indebted...Read more
This was originally published in Zenodo to supplement a blog post I authored for LSE in May 2019. However, I was...Read more