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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 [...]

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This article first appeared in the Daily Nation of January 3rd, 2030. By JOE MUCHERUPosted Monday, January 3 2011 at 18:00 In Summary Among other areas, advertisers will take advantage of direct link between offline events and subsequent surge in online search In light of the mushrooming ICT evolution and innovation experienced in Kenya over the past two years, as [...]

OUTSOURCING TO AFRICA: A Relative Ranking of 15 Country Locations This is a Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) study of 15 countries resulting in a ranking of their relative readiness. Criteria used include infrastructure, people/skills and business environment. Below is an extract from the report from the report’s overview: “Egypt turns out as the most attractive [...]

By Prof. Timothy Mwololo Waema Executive Summary (See full report at: 2007-kenya-telecoms-sector-performance-review) This report reviews the status of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector in Kenya in 2006. The report of the study is an update of a similar review carried out in 2003, which covered the period 1999 to 2003. This earlier review [...]

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The following are concluding remarks from a report titled ICT Investment Opportunities in East Africa Country Specific Market Analysis Kenya of October 2004 authored by Tina James Trigrammic, SA), Kimmo Kartano (Independent Consultant) Finland) and Tim Mutinda (Technology Consulting, Kenya). The remarks capture the essence of the findings and suggestions to the future. “The ICT [...]