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ICT in Agriculture: How techies get it all wrong with Agriculture
Editor's Note: This is part 1 of the 3-part series pinpointing the reasons why bridging the gap between technology (with a focus on ICT4Ag) and agriculture hit a peak a while back and is currently stagnated. For many low-volume Kenyan farmers, the only source of... Read More

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Coding is the new “Read, Write & Arithmetic” Skill — and you need it!
The new frenzy around town is that now coding is as (and sometimes more) important than the 3Rs -- Reading, Writing & Arithmetic. As such new online coding schools such as Codeacademy, Code.org, Codenow, Codeschool, Treehouse and hundred others sprung up to help you with... Read More

Onyango Obbo: Digital platforms are killing traditional media
At the commencement the new millennium, the future of traditional media was obscured by the internet, a new platform that presented limitless possibilities of exchanging information. They had to adopt it or die. Many did adopt it, however, still maintaining their rather archaic style guides... Read More

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Dear Facebook, Google, Microsoft, want to help Africa? Here’s how
Mobile visionaries as well as internet giants are at the mobile world capital in Barcelona, Spain to deliberate on what they believe should be the new direction that the industry should take. The 3-day glamorous event is punctuated by the latest flagship devices from global... Read More




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Smart Cities, 3D Printing, advanced 4G and Mobile Money among big tech predictions of 2014
Research firm, Juniper just released its top 10 tech trends for 2014. The firm documents Technology trends that cover a range of fields, from smart cities to education, from wearable devices to 3D printing, where it believes there will be significant activity – be that adoption or disruption –... Read More

Android hits 1 Billion Mark: Google achieves in 5 years what Microsoft did in 27
It's now 5 years since the HTC Dream (also known as the T-Mobile G1 in the United States and parts of Europe) -- the first android powered smartphone -- was released in the market and just one year before the Android operating system was officially unveiled.... Read More




If these maps can predict the future then Kony’s days are numbered
Prophecy may still be qualified to those with divine powers, but modern technology has blessed us with clever systems that can make accurate guesses about the future. DigitalGlobe is an agile mapping company whose sophisticated constellation of imaging satellite is a key interest to companies such... Read More


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Mobile peer-to-peer lending: An innovation still brewing at the backyard
I was a bit disappointed at the recent Pivot East Africa camp held at Sheraton Kampala, It was a nice event with many great and bright people participating from across all the East African countries. My disappointment was borne mainly out of what I think... Read More

“The web is your school, go and learn”: Here’s Google’s approach to education
Google at this year's Google I/O 2013, an annual event where the search giant showcases its latest products and services to the world, has finally made an attempt to step into the educational waters. Google has been lagging behind its competitors like Apple which has iBooks, an... Read More
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