Nairobi

AOk. Google chose Nairobi for its African regional base because the Kenyan government embraced the Internet

This excerpt from the TIMES article repasted below explains that Nairobi was seen as attractive for American technology company, Google, to set up a regional office because of government support...Read more

META: What discourses shape the way people in this setting talk about and conceptualize qualitative data infrastructure and capacity, right-to-know, freedom of information, the potential of expanded public participation, and so on?

Perry, A. (2011, June 30). Silicon Savanna: Mobile Phones Transform Africa. Time.

Analytics Across Scales and Systems: Qualitative Data Capacity

Okune. 2015. Notes on being researched while working at iHub.

I stumbled across this document, which I had created in 2015, on my computer today [Oct 2020] and decided it was a nice artifact to upload to RDS as "fieldnotes" of a few out of many more experiences as a research subject. These were just two of many innumerable times I participated in somebody'...Read more

AO. High interest in qual data across diverse groups in Nairobi.

AO: The last panel seemed to be most worried about privacy and the capitalist profit made off of individual’s data; the system forces you to consent and there are not options for...Read more

DEUTERO: Who and how are those in this context thinking and worrying about the kinds of qualitative data infrastructure, work and capacity called for currently and in the future?

Proceedings of Archiving Kenya's Past and Futures

Analytics Across Scales and Systems: Qualitative Data Capacity

2020_SEPT_24 WRITING MEETING_VIDEO RECORDING

https://youtu.be/lqrFU9Y81g4

AOk. Google's selection of Nairobi for its Africa office as "Nairobi’s highest-profile validation"

Google opened a development office in Nairobi in September 2007 which the author labels as "Nairobi’s highest-profile validation".

The article includes a...Read more

MACRO: What laws and economic drivers produce (or undercut) qualitative data infrastructure, access, work and capacity in this setting?

Zachary, G. P. (2008, July 20). Inside Nairobi, the Next Palo Alto? The New York Times.

Analytics Across Scales and Systems: Qualitative Data Capacity

Learning from Nairobi

Something Kim said - about Nairobi being an important site to learn from given that many in the US may be forced to go into the more informal economy, etc. - reminded me of a twist of that point...Read more

How is “Nairobi”, “Kenya”, and/or “Africa” invoked when data (sharing) is mentioned?

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Thematic Analysis: Qual Open Data

Nzekwe, H. (2020, August 17). Kenya Hunts Foreign-Owned Tech Startups With 30% Local Ownership Law. Wee Tracker.

This blog post builds on ongoing discussions in the Nairobi tech space where race-based privilege is being increasingly articulated to describe the unequal playing ground that black Kenyan founders and white expatriate founders face when looking for start-up capital. This post focuses on the 30...Read more

AOk. "Kenya's love for IT has earned it the nickname Silicon Savanna"

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

META: What discourses shape the way people in this setting talk about and conceptualize qualitative data infrastructure and capacity, right-to-know, freedom of information, the potential of expanded public participation, and so on?

Perry, A. (2011, June 30). Silicon Savanna: Mobile Phones Transform Africa. Time.

Analytics Across Scales and Systems: Qualitative Data Capacity

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

Keynote Presentation at IBM Research Lab. (2014, March 18). [Transcript based on personal recording].

0:02 CTO, IBM Watson We're very glad to be here in Africa. As you know, late last year, we opened our 4th research lab in IBM, here in Africa. And Africa represents to us an incredible, very exciting set of opportunities. And that's for many reasons, okay, not the least of which is the African...Read more

Okolloh, O. (2017, July 11). No Sacred Cows. Medium.

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

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