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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?

2020_SEPT_24 WRITING MEETING_Transcript

Thematic Analysis: Qual Open Data

AOk. Liberalized telecoms and fiber networks

AO: This excerpt from the article (below) highlights the key role that liberalizing telecom and fiber networks in Kenya had for attracting American multinational tech...Read more

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

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

Analytics Across Scales and Systems: Qualitative Data Capacity

TRANSCRIPT: 190514_001 RESEARCHING IN/FROM NAIROBI

Transcript from one-on-one interview

Tuesday, May 14 , 2019

10:23 AM – 11:28 AM

Location: Research office of interlocutor (Nairobi, Kenya)

Participant: Kenyan woman who resides in...Read more

Mwangi, E. (2010). Between imagination and delusion: Cosmopolitan postcolonial critique in Ken Walibora’s Ndoto ya Amerika [The American Dream]. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 46(2), 125–137.

AO: This article by Mwangi analyses the late Ken Walibora's "Ndoto ya Amerika", arguing that it promotes “rooted cosmopolitanism” as a framework for literary and political development.Read more

Transcript: Panel 1 at Archiving Kenya's Past and Futures

Transcript of Panel 1 Discussion at "Archiving Kenya’s Past and Futures: Stewardship and Care of Research Data"

November 12, 2019

Venue: McMillan Library

Moderator: Leonida Mutuku

Speakers:

Leah Komen

Joyce Wangari

John Osogo...Read more

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September 25, 2019

2:30 PM - 5 PM

NMK Ford Hall

Reflections:

What does an independent postcolonial nation do with a painful colonial past? It was noticeable how the speaker, a Kenyan Indian included...Read more

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

2020_SEPT_24 WRITING MEETING_VIDEO RECORDING

https://youtu.be/lqrFU9Y81g4

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

AOk. Skunkworks and other dev community groups circa 2008.

This article from 2008 mentions one of the early tech community groups, Skunkworks. The Skunkworks community was a precursor to many who ended up getting involved in setting up the iHub including...Read more

MESO: What groups, networks and publics are implicated in qualitative data infrastructure, work, governance and capacity in this setting? What data and visualizations of these groups and networks are available?

Learning from Nairobi

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

2020_SEPT_24 WRITING MEETING_Transcript

AOk. Liberalized telecoms and fiber networks

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

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

TRANSCRIPT: 190514_001 RESEARCHING IN/FROM NAIROBI

Mwangi, E. (2010). Between imagination and delusion: Cosmopolitan postcolonial critique in Ken Walibora’s Ndoto ya Amerika [The American Dream]. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 46(2), 125–137.

Transcript: Panel 1 at Archiving Kenya's Past and Futures

pece_artifact_fieldnote_1570187599

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

2020_SEPT_24 WRITING MEETING_VIDEO RECORDING

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

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.

AOk. Skunkworks and other dev community groups circa 2008.

MESO: What groups, networks and publics are implicated in qualitative data infrastructure, work, governance and capacity in this setting? What data and visualizations of these groups and networks are available?

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

AOk. Racial categories unarticulated in 2011.

NANO: What cultural frames and dispositions enable or deflect qualitative data work and capacity in this setting?

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

Kenyan citizens protest in Nairobi against government corruption

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