Tech Initiatives Have Not Benefited Smallholder Farmers
Tech Initiatives Have Not Benefited Smallholder Farmers The last few weeks have been tough for Kant Governor Charity Ngila, after it appeared that she wouldn’t meet her promise to find a match for future products. Mama Ngila, as she is known, had boldly promised farmers that she would find the market, and all that the farmers […]
Open Data Should Help in Anti-Graft War
Tech Initiatives Have Not Benefited Smallholder Farmers In July 2011, Kenya became the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to launch an Open Data portal for the first time, giving citizens public and free access to key information that anchors policy-making. The Open Data portal was expected to provide openness and engagement on government spending and […]
Kirenga Girls: State of ICT
Kirenga Girls: State of ICT Thirst for knowledge: Kirenga Girls students attend a computer class in their ICT room. The room only has 9 functioning computers which are too few for the school population of over 300 girls. This, however, will soon be a problem of the past since Fireside Group has committed to setting […]
The Refu-SHE program
The RefuSHE Programme Civil and political war always leaves behind a trail of destruction in affected regions, particularly infrastructural destruction. Of more concern, however, are the psychological wounds inflicted on residents of war torn regions, especially women and children. For this vulnerable demographic, getting life back on track and pursuing their dreams is almost impossible […]
Why Fibre Service Providers Need to Head Downstream
Why Fibre Service Providers Need to Head Downstream In the past half-decade, Kenya has seen a surge in high-speed broadband adoption with the country’s internet users growing exponentially.In 2010, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) said the total available bandwidth capacity was 202,720 megabits per second (Mbps). In 2016, this number had grown to […]
Women Businesses Need Process Reform
Women Businesses Need Process Reform Here are the paragraphs extracted from the provided HTML content: The National Treasury recently reported that woman-owned businesses received Sh27 billion of the Sh50 billion tenders set aside by government agencies over the past four years. The 23,165 tenders were the result of Access to Government Procurement Opportunities (AGPO), whose […]