Kenya

Rhetoric, reality, and re-membering: Reflections on Kenya’s knowledge ecosystem following the June 2024 maandamano

Opening Remarks of Nov 28, 2024 "RDS Database as Book" Event

AOk. Kenya's "global competitiveness" predicated on "re-training and access to technological learning within employment"

This quote from page 11 strikes me for two reasons:

1) It names citizens as "people" once -- applauding their creativity, work ethic, education and entrepreneurial skills -- then refers to...Read more

What kinds of expertise or types of knowledge are mentioned?

Government of the Republic of Kenya. (2018). Marking 10 Years of Progress (2008—2018). Government of the Republic of Kenya.

Thematic Analysis: Qual Open Data

TRANSCRIPT: 190524_002 RESEARCHING IN/FROM NAIROBI

Transcript from one-on-one interview

Friday , May 24 , 2019

Hung out from 10:10 AM – 2:00 PM. Interviewed happened at the beginning of this time (from 10:57 AM - 12:15 PM).

Location: lunch venue in Westlands (Nairobi, Kenya)

Participant...Read more

TRANSCRIPT: 190522_001 RESEARCHING IN/FROM NAIROBI

Transcript from one-on-one interview

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

10:16 AM – 11:44 AM

Location: Research office of interlocutor (Nairobi, Kenya)

Participant: Non-Kenyan woman with kinship ties to the...Read more

Panel 1: "Experimental publishing: new ways of relating around books and data"

Harvest Discussion at Nov 28, 2024 "RDS Database as Book" Event

A swirl of contextual events in/on/related to Kenyan (tech) research

1884-85: Berlin Conference where European imperialist powers met to “regulate the ‘scramble’ for Africa
1888: Imperial British East Africa Company given a royal charter to administer the area allocated to Britain
1890: The British

Mawazo Institute. 2020. “Survey Findings on the Impact of COVID-19 on Africa’s Higher Education System.” Nairobi, Kenya: Mawazo Institute.

AO: This report foregrounds results from an online survey with 501 respondents conducted by Nairobi-based Mawazo Institute in April 2020.Read more

Shupler et al. 2021. ‘COVID-19 Impacts on Household Energy & Food Security in a Kenyan Informal Settlement."

AO: Page 18 states that opening up government data is important to "create transparent public procurement process, public oversight of expenditure and ensure value-for-money towards citizen...Read more

JUSTIFICATION: What reasons are given to describe why data for development is necessary?

Querying Data for Development