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Eric Schmidt at the iHub

iHub earlier today hosted Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google . Eric toured the iHub ,hung out with techies, met techpreneurs from the iHub, and visited some of the startups here, including...

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Uchaguzi Meet Up | ElectionsKe 2013 and Uchaguzi

It was a full house at the iHub yesterday evening as the Kenyan Uchaguzi Community made up of Social Media users, Mappers, Researchers, Developers, Journalists, and individuals interested in the...

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Startups Win Gauteng Innovation Competition

The eGov Connect team with TIH officials receiving their cheque Tuesday January 15,  eGov Connect and Smokeless coal took home R 250,000 each from the Gauteng Innovation Competition held at The...

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iHub Cluster Goes Live

It’s with great excitement and anticipation that we can formally say that the iHub Cluster is finally up and running! The iHub Cluster was a project thought of by an iHub Community member (Idd Salim)...

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AccessKenya Investment to Fuel Kenya’s Bandwidth Capacity

AccessKenya to spend over Ksh 120 million to fuel Kenya’s bandwidth capacity by over 80 percent By Sam Wakoba Kenya’s corporate internet and IT solutions provider AccessKenya Group is driving up the...

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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...

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Online 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...

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iHub 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...

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Igniting 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...

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In 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...

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CCAACC & 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...

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#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...

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iHub 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...

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Mobile 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...

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Inside 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...

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Inside 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...

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#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:...

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Mobile 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...

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iHub 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...

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Microsoft 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...

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