iHub Research | Supporting Startups
By Gladys Kitony You may have a brilliant idea for your startup, but the end product fails to live up to its brilliance in the market. Understanding the market ensures that actual needs are captured...
View ArticleOnline Community’s responsibility in curbing dangerous speech
Guest Editorial : By Jessica Musila As Kenya heads to its most complex election ever on 4th March 2013, the role of Kenya’s online community especially on social media is a point of concern. While the...
View ArticleiHub Research in 2013
iHub Research engages in community-oriented research and is therefore keen to ensure community collaboration at different levels. It is for this reason that we have recently initiated an Outreach...
View ArticleIgniting the invisible: African Tech Innovation Index
By Gladys Kitony On Monday, 16th January 2013, the African tech-Innovation Index (ATII) Research project was initiated at iHub Research. The project brings together a highly qualified team, which is...
View ArticleIn Praise of the ICT Middleman
By Chris Foster How many times have you heard it said in ICT business discussions “we need to get rid of the middleman” or “too many intermediaries are making our operations inefficient”? Some might...
View ArticleCCAACC & SXSW ANNOUNCE FIRST AFRICAN DIASPORA FELLOWS
Nairobi tech start-up founders selected to attend and participate in 2013 SXSW Austin, TX The Capital City African American Chamber of Commerce (CCAACC) and South by Southwest Interactive Festival...
View Article#PeacefulElections – A Real Time Feed of Peace SMSs from Passengers on Buses
Beginning in February 2013, passengers on FlashCast’s smart-buses were prompted to send in SMS contributions with the topic: “A Peaceful, United Kenya”. A real-time feed of these messages is...
View ArticleiHub Cluster | A Technical Deep Dive
By Moses Temu What is a cluster? To put it simply a cluster is an aggregation of several computers, the computational nodes that are networked together in a way that allows for them to act as one. So...
View ArticleMobile Opportunities in Africa – Engaging with the Next Billion
Guestpost by Rudy De Waele, CEO & Founder of Nyota Media. Part 1 I started investigating mobile in Africa, in early 2010, which resulted in the Mobile Trends 2020 Africa document I curated...
View ArticleInside the Uchaguzi Situation Room at the iHub – Updates
Quick Summary Over 200+ made up of the iHub community both globally and locally are at the iHub, which has been converted in to the Uchaguzi Situation Room. 80+ hours later, the volunteers working in...
View ArticleInside the Uchaguzi Situation Room – The Visuals
Here’s the visual representation of the data from the reports coming in on Uchaguzi: (View all these visuals and more on: visuals.uchaguzi.co.ke) Incidences Violence Uchaguzi Status (as at today...
View Article#KenyaDecides – Best Places to Get Ke Election Visuals
How the Election Data is Being Visualized: Uchaguzi Visuals: visuals.uchaguzi.co.ke IEBC is the source of the data: http://vote.iebc.or.ke/ Nation Media has the best visuals:...
View ArticleMobile Friendly Real-time Provisional Results IEBC feed for All Levels of...
The design & developer tag team ( JeffMaina & ckithika ) from the iHub, here at the Uchaguzi Situation room have been putting together a simple way to visualize the provisional results...
View ArticleiHub Robotics Meetups – A Recap
By Muuo Wambua, Robotics Intern As promised, Friday the 15th saw a bunch of hardware and software enthusiasts meet-up and hack on the Raspberry Pi, a small, barebones computer developed by The...
View ArticleMicrosoft Unveils Strategic Cooperation With iHub and m:lab to Accelerate...
As part of the recently launched Microsoft 4Afrika Initiative, Microsoft Corp. today announced a strategic cooperation with business incubator iHub and the m:lab East Africa consortium to enable...
View ArticleSoftware Development in Africa, How Does It Look Like?
How Does it Look Like Now? Watch Erik Hersman,Managing Director & Co-Founder iHub with Renee James, Intel Executive Vice President, Intel Software and Services Group, talk about the opportunities...
View ArticleAkiraChix to host Girls in ICT Day on 27th April 2013
We are all aware that career paths are chosen, or at least heavily decided upon on completion of High School in Kenya. This is one of the reasons why AkiraChix has embarked on mentoring young girls in...
View ArticleThe Global Neighborhood Challenge
Are you pioneering a neighborhood-level project so awesome that you think it should happen everywhere? ( Read More ) The Global Neighborhood Challenge: A Pop-Up Fellowship with GOOD’s Global...
View ArticleMicrosoft announces end of Support for Windows XP
Microsoft Corp. has today announced that it is officially retiring support for Windows XP in the commercial market. However, the end-of-support will be reached gradually over the next 12 months to...
View ArticleHarnessing the Internet to Drive Socio-Economic Development in Africa
Over the last few years Internet penetration has continued to grow in Sub-Saharan Africa. While the access gap remains significant in most countries, policy makers and the public now know that it’s...
View ArticleFirst Congress for African Tech Hub Network
AfriLabs, the African tech hub association, gathers for first annual meeting at re:publica AfriLabs (afrilabs.com), a pan-African network of 19 technology and innovation hubs in 13 African countries,...
View ArticleGlobal gathering of innovation hubs at re:publica
Across Africa, in cities from Cairo to Addis Ababa to Dar es Salaam, technology innovation hubs are mushrooming around the continent and are playing a central role in the fledgling tech and...
View ArticleGIST Tech-I Competition
GIST invites all eligible participants from GIST eligible countries in the three regions of Africa, Asia, and Middle East & Turkey to participate in its annual GIST Technology Idea (Tech-I)...
View ArticleWelcome to Tech4Africa 2013, Nairobi!
The one day event that has prevously been held in Cape Town and Johannesburg makes its debut in Nairobi ,this July 3rd from 8am to 10pm at iLab, Strathmore University, Ole Sangale Road, Madaraka,...
View ArticleOnline vs. Offline: Tales from Mathare
By Chris Orwa (@blackorwa) Last week, the iHub Research team visited Mathare to interview residents to better understand any disjoint between offline and online worlds in respect to incident reporting...
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