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Tweet   By Matunda Nyanchama, PhD click here for a pdf version of this article. On January 17th, 2012 Kenyans woke up to news of desecration of a number of government websites. A hacker has taken liberty to expose the weaknesses in the security of government systems, reportedly after a short tutorial. The hacker, coming [...]

Young, gifted and crooked: Hi-tech fraud soars in EA nb: see original article from the East African at this link Tweet The young technophile and the finance savvy guy, who has worked for one organisation for several years, is the apple of any human resource manager’s eye. In Summary Employee training: Focus on training employees [...]

Africa banking on mobile to be first post-PC continent Projects driving online penetration are focused more on mobile devices than on PCs Rebecca Wanjiku 06 April, 2011 02:13 A convergence of historical circumstance and an increase in innovative mobile applications may make Africa the first post-PC continent. Low investment in wired telecommunication infrastructure has driven [...]

11th – 14th May 2010, Sarova Whitesands Beach Resort, Mombasa, Kenya GLOBAL BEST PRACTICES TO ENHANCE CYBER SECURITY & PROTECT CRITICAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURES & ASSETS ACROSS AFRICA PROG 5 – ICT Security Africa Summit – May 2010 Kenya _CISO Summit Africa Opening Keynote Speeches Confirmed By: Dr. Bitange Ndemo, PhD, CBS, Permanent Secretary, Office of [...]

Kenyan Safaricom extends money transfers to Britain Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:18am EDT By Helen Nyambura-Mwaura NAIROBI, Oct 13 (Reuters) – Kenyan mobile operator Safaricom (SCOM.NR) extended its money transfer service to Britain on Tuesday and may roll it out to other countries. The service – known as M-Pesa – transfers over 600 million shillings [...]

NAIROBI, Kenya/TORONTO, Canada – Monday May 18, 2009. A partnership agreement for Information Security Training has been reached between Canadian-based Agano Consulting Inc and Nairobi-based K-Ninety East Africa Ltd (K-90EA). The deal was reached between Dr. Matunda Nyanchama of Agano Consulting Inc. and Mr. Preston Odera of K-90EA. The two companies will collaborate to bring [...]

Business Opportunity Study within the IT and Telecommunication Industry in Kenya A sector study prepared for Danida by Håndværksrådet (the Danish Federation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises) in collaboration with Growth Africa, Kenya; November 2006 Below is an extract of the Executive Summary Click here to download the full report. The Kenyan ICT industry The [...]

Mobile Banking Empowering the poor Written by: Natasha Elkington Six years ago on a whim, I was lucky enough to buy a farm with two friends in my native Kenya. The farm borders the Shimba Hills National Reserve, high above the coastal plain. It’s an enchanting other world, but also very remote. As I live [...]

This article appeared in Forbes Magazine. Refer to Wikpedia for description of the term Creative Destruction. Creative Disruption Citizen Voices by Megha Bahree 12.08.08, 12:00 AM ET On a recent day in November 15,000 people were pushing up against the barbed wire outside the United Nation’s mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo in Goma. [...]

By James Anyanzwa The Co-operative Bank’s pursuit to raise Sh10 billion through an initial public offering (IPO) has started off with early indications that the offer could be priced at about Sh14 a share. In the IPO, billed to the second largest after Safaricom, more than 50,000 individual shareholders of the bank are expecting to [...]