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The iHub is officially accepting membership registration. If you want to be part of this burgeoning community, now is the time to register and be part of it. The registration is being carried out via the new look website that will eventually be a community website. There are different levels of membership – white, red and [...]

iHub will be screening this year’s TEDGlobal conference live from Oxford! *iHub_ brings TEDGlobal 2010 to you in Nairobi from Wednesday – Friday from 10.00 a.m. – 7.00 p.m. this week. TEDGlobal 2010 is happening this week in Oxford and is a lineup of amazing speakers, performers and attendees have gathered for four days of [...]

Appfrica has announced a new initiative called Hive Colab, a place for freelance developers to find a good working environment. Hive Colab is a collaboration between Appfrica Labs, Project Diaspora, UConnect, and Node Six: Hive Colab is a collaborative, community owned, open work environment for young tech entrepreneurs looking to focus on projects, to access [...]

CORRECTION: The event is taking place on Monday, 28th, June (today); not Tuesday eVentures Africa Fund (eVA) is a VC firm based in the Netherlands that has a keen focus on investing in Internet and Mobile based tech companies in Sub-Saharan Africa. The firm is currently focused on Ghana and Kenya as investment destinations: The [...]

UPDATE: Pizza will be available. Please register to make planning easier. Following the recent Swift River ‘crash course’ at the iHub, we are planning a similar event for developers interested in getting involved in contributing to Ushahidi. This is the second Ushahidi 101 session the first having primarily focused on Ushahidi from a deployment point [...]

We’ve uploaded our photos from Barcamp Nairobi that was held this past Saturday and Sunday. Apparently there were about 600 attendees on Saturday alone and nearly 250 on Sunday, making it probably the biggest Barcamp ever in Africa and maybe even one of the largest in Africa. A big congratulations to the team that set [...]

Last weekend the iHub hosted the Random Hacks of Kindness hackathon, as part of a global event that saw people from different cities around the world gathering to hack on projects aimed at some kind of social good. Read summaries from day 1 and day 2 on the ihub blog. Erik (@whiteafrican) captured some of [...]

A popular meme of recent posts has been the continued growth of specific tech hubs in specific areas in west, east, south and northern Africa. In most cases,  it’s the ‘small guys’ the ‘community’ young, ambitious  entrepreneurs who you find pushing things. It becomes quite interesting, though, when a big and influential organization somehow involves itself [...]

Barcamp Nairobi and WhereCampAfrica have come together this year to create what will probably be the largest community technology event of the year in Nairobi, Kenya. 500 enthusiastic techies and geo geeks crammed in between the massive spaces at the iHub and naiLab (iLab) for two days. The official event website shows a comprehensive list [...]

Here’s a short clip of how it went down at the CS5 launch that took place at the iHub last week. The video is courtesy of Cesar Harada (a new volunteer at iHub), Joshua Musau and James Muriithi. Adobe CS5 Kenyan Launch at the IHub Nairobi Innovation Hub from Cesar Harada on Vimeo.