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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 [...]

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 [...]

Lessons from Anonymous on cyberwar  This article appeared on the Al Jazeera website A cyberwar is brewing, and Anonymous reprisal attacks on HBGary Federal shows how deep the war goes. Haroon Meer Last Modified: 10 Mar 2011 16:11 GMT After Anonymous hacked into HBGary’s network and published over 71,000 private emails, signs of a brewing [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

By Owiti Gabriel Ogudah   One of, and perhaps, the major impediment to good and sound governance is lack of accountability. Rules of accountability dictate that astute representation can only be attained when a leader applies the ‘bottom-up’ paradigm in his discharge of duties. The paradigm works from the notion that the common man at the [...]

The Kenyan IT Training Scene: Some Observations[i] Matunda Nyanchama, PhD; Nsemia Information Technologies Ltd; P. O. Box 62423, Nairobi, Kenya; Telefax: 254-2-242479; matunda@csd.uwo.ca; nsemia@africaonline.co.ke Preamble Information Technology (IT) is becoming a catch word and part of the common vocabulary in the local market. A perusal of local papers reveals trends that are taking root in [...]