I archive this important report by Mathare Social Justice Network to help grow the respository of important, grassroots work being conducted to document and help address injustices in Nairobi. This report by the Mothers of Victims and Survivors Network of The Mathare Social...Read more
AO: The article explains (see excerpt below) that the Government of Kenya (GoK) demonstrated its tangible support of the Internet when it decided to lay down its...Read more
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Beye, Gora. 2002. Impact of Foreign Assistance on Institutional Development of National Agricultural Research Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa . FAO Research and Technology Paper 10. Rome: Special Program for African Agricultural Research, Food and Agriculture Organization...Read moreAO: 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
I mentioned, that despite a continued need articulated by Wambui, Hawi and Wangari earlier in the conversation for greater citizen engagement around data, it's ironic because ...Read more
Here is a comparative analysis highlighting various countries' stimulus support to address the economic effects of COVID19 with specific reference to Kenyan government actions shared by Ann Ichungwa on LinkedIn.Read more
AO: This is the official copy of the Kenya Data Protection Act, 2019 which was adopted by the Parliament of Kenya on November 8, 2019. The document was sourced from the CIPIT repository. Emerging analyses/guidance/opinion pieces...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
This is the outline program for the "Extending Knowledge and Publishing Infrastructures in and from Africa" Workshop held at the British Institute of Eastern Africa (BIEA) on December 8 and 9th, 2025.Read more
This brief Medium post was written by an influential leader in the Nairobi tech space, Ory Okolloh, who was a former co-founder of Ushahidi. In the post, she raises several points including that "we as a tech community must examine the series of events that led us to a point where an...Read more