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Will Open Data Give Rise to Great Stuff?

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Sindo District Hospital

Sindo District Hospital in Western Kenya. source: Flickr - DFID-UK

There’s a health center in my village. I don’t know how many health care workers have been assigned to it, how much money it was allocated in the last fiscal year, how many people it serves or who’s in charge. I don’t know what the mortality rate is in my county or how we measure up when compared to the neighboring counties. If nothing changes, I probably never will.

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Written by Muchiri Nyaggah

July 7th, 2011 at 1:37 am

PIVOT25, East Africa’s First Mobile Developer Conference

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PIVOT25 - Nairobi, Kenya. 14 - 15th June, 2011

PIVOT25 is East Africa’s first mobile developer challenge and conference. Happening on the 14 & 15th of June, 2011 the event enjoys the support of Nokia, the World Bank’s infoDev, Google, DEMO and Equity Bank among others. The winner of the challenge will get an opportunity to pitch at DEMO in September 2011. See the press release here.

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Written by Muchiri Nyaggah

May 21st, 2011 at 8:48 pm

Workshop: Building a Business on Mobile Apps.

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Semacraft Consulting invites you to register for a workshop on Building a Business on Mobile Apps to be held in Nairobi, Kenya.

The workshop is based on research and insights gathered by the Semacraft team on the African market and will equip participants with the information they need to: Read the rest of this entry »

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May 6th, 2011 at 1:30 pm

Apps for Africa: 3 Reasons To Focus on Mobile

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MXit's Android App

The iTunes App store has had phenomenal success as a content distribution platform starting with music and then moving into magazines, books and software applications. There are currently more than 300,000 apps on offer on the App store and numerous stories of developers who went on to make millions of dollars from publishing the apps to the store. The App store may have been solely responsible for spawning a whole new sub-sector for application development that wasn’t taken very seriously until then. Read the rest of this entry »

Africa: Opportunity Awaits

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I looked up a Nairobi-based digital strategist Mark Kaigwa last month, smart and insightful, he’s become a voice to listen to on East African social media and internet marketing affairs. Mobile quickly became part of the conversation since internet penetration is still relatively low. In fact, telecommunication companies across the continent have identified data subscriptions as the next frontier for growth as voice revenues decline due to increased competition and regulatory intervention.

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Written by Muchiri Nyaggah

March 28th, 2011 at 6:52 am

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