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You’ve heard about search engines, have you heard about Knowledge Engines? How about one built in Africa?
One of my greatest areas of interest in computer science/software engineering has always been massively scaled systems. You know, the kind of systems that run Google. It is in this pursuit that some time last year I met Haythal [...]

We’ve recently covered stories about iHub that is opening up in Nairobi, Kenya in March. And I’m sure many people reading this are also aware of Appfrica Labs in neighboring  Uganda.
It seems the trend of creating community innovation centers is spreading throughout the continent. West Africa is not left behind. Bantalabs is the new kid [...]

Almost two weeks ago ihub launched a logo design competion on 99 designs whose deadline was later on extended to end on February 3rd 2010. This was quite succesfull and the competition attracted a whooping 577 entries! On the 3rd day of February 2010, the winning logo was picked and the logo was unveiled during [...]

In the spirit of improving the standards of living of the women in Kireka in Uganda, Sienna Anstis has lauched a website that basically explains what the projects is about.
Sienna Anstis, as described on the website, is a Swedish-Canadian and is currently working in Nairobi as the Regional Communications Officer for the Aga Khan Foundation [...]

The Business Daily ran a story on a Kenyan (obviously a script kiddie) who was recently caught up in an international case involving a hacking attempt on Google’s Chinese online properties.

Here’s a little teaser from the article:
…Using his rudimentary knowledge of hacking internet sites, he then posted the stolen passwords on Facebook, for fun.
But then [...]

Njeri Wangari (or KenyanPoet) is ranked as one of the top bloggers in all of Africa and a top 20 blogger in Kenya according to  on Afrigator. She writes a blog where she shares her life through her poetry and highlights the arts across Africa.
Afrinnovator sat down with this amazing lady to pick her brain [...]

We continue our live coverage of the Mobile Web East Africa conference. This is the second and last day of the event. So far the discussion has been very lively and the insights have been enlightening. You can review yesterdays proceeding from our live coverage of the day.
MWEA Live Coverage Day 2

Here below is the are the live proceedings of the event. Join us from 9 am when the event begins.
MWEA Day 1
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Aside from blogs and mailing lists, the Kenyan web scene is somewhat still crawling with little else in terms of dynamic content and services that make the internet indispensable in the west. This is however quickly changing as connecting to the web becomes cheaper. Here are a few niche websites that I think should be [...]

Sasanet Limited, a tech company known mostly for free smses a few years back then turned into a pyramid scheme, conned many of its shareholders who sought legal redress to get back that which belonged to them. The High Court of kenya has allowed some investors who lost millions in Sasanet pyramid scheme to sell assets [...]