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Introducing Research Practices in Universities.

I read this great post on Chao’s blog. I was to leave this as a comment on the post, but it got too long. So I decided to post my thoughts here. First, I think the word tech is rapidly losing any nuance it has. When you look at Twiga, Eneza and Sendy, while each […]

Sidney Ochieng in research, Uncategorized, University | 25th November 2016 | 672 Words | Comment

Universal Service Fund

The Universal Service Fund, created by The Kenya Information Communications Amendment Act 2009 (KICA 2009) and the Kenya Information and Communications Regulations 2010 (KICR US&A 2010), was to create a fund that would compliment the commercial roll-out of communications infrastructure. The objectives of the Universal Service Fund as provided in the Kenya Information and Communications […]

Sidney Ochieng in Uncategorized | 13th April 2015 | 419 Words | 1 Comment

BarCamp Nairobi 2013 is Here!

The last one of these I attended was the very first one in 2010 and it was a lot of fun I hope you’ll be there… BarCamp is an international network of user-generated unconferences primarily focused around technology and the Web. By definition, an unconference is a participant-driven meeting that tries to avoid one or […]

Sidney Ochieng in Uncategorized | 20th August 2013 | 311 Words | Comment

2 reasons we should stop calling it ‘the Jubilee’ Government

Today I’d like to put to you something that you may have noticed, or not. Whenever you watch news these days and the government is mentioned it is referred to as “the Jubilee Government” which is very accurate as they control both the executive, the legislature (both houses) and, depending on whom you ask, the […]

Sidney Ochieng in Uncategorized | 26th July 2013 | 645 Words | 1 Comment

Special Internet IDs?

Last week I read a headline in my Google Reader that had me more than a little worried: Special IDs planned for net user to curb attacks. It immediately had me worried about the potential privacy issues this could bring up. Who would handle these IDs? How would then be issued? What data would be […]

Sidney Ochieng in Uncategorized | 25th November 2012 | 770 Words | Comment

Pressure

I gave my editor a bunch of topics I wanted to write on; things that float around in my head that could be posts if I thought about them long enough. The whole idea was to have a constant pool of ideas to pull from and right about. Yeah… in retrospect it now seems like […]

Sidney Ochieng in Uncategorized | 23rd November 2012 | 684 Words | Comment

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