The Innovation Awards at the Connected Kenya Summit have continuously provided a platform to showcase Kenyan companies that are contributing to improving productivity and efficiency in the country through ICT innovation. The Innovation Pavilion and Awards will this year be sponsored by Google.   In addition to the awards, this year will include an innovation pavilion where innovators can exhibit their creative and life changing innovations.   The selected finalists will both exhibit and receive [...]

88mph, an early stage startup fund and 3 month accelerator program has opened applications for Nairobi. The program assists start-ups by giving them investment of up to a 100k, access to business networks and the know how to quickly grow their businesses. 88mph’s strategy in Africa is to fund strong teams and web-mobile ideas that have the ability to scale across English speaking Africa. Last year 88mph invested in 6 web-mobile startups in Nairobi. The [...]

The Rockefeller Foundation has pledged $97 million in the digital scene in Africa as part of its ongoing initiative to create jobs for young Africans in the rapidly growing information and communications technology (ICT) sector in the continent. This was announced at the World Economic Forum, in Cape Town last week.   According to the foundation, the fund would be aimed at impacting one million lives in six African countries. The investment will impact people who would [...]

After having been fallen behind in the global smart phone market, Nokia seems to regain the lost ground with the introduction of a new family in the series of Asha smart phones. Stephen Elop, Nokia CEO, has recently announced the new Nokia Asha 501 at a global event held in New Delhi on May 9th and also said that Asha 501 is a smart device to compete in the low-cost Android phones market in the [...]

Protocols 1. It is with great pleasure that I present to you today, the 2013 Federal Government Budget. I thank Mr President, my colleagues and the Honourable Members of the National Assembly for their contributions to the planning, preparation, passage and signing into law of the 2013 Budget.   2. I would also like to acknowledge the effort of the Leadership of the National Assembly, all relevant committees and the Budget Office for completing the [...]

The Africa Domain Name System (DNS) Forum will be held on 12 – 13 July 2013 in Durban, South Africa. The event aims to establish a platform for the DNS community across Africa and to advance the domain name industry and domain name registrations on the continent.     Over the years, the Internet Society (http://www.internetsociety.org), AfTLD, and ICANN have supported the continued development and growth of Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) in Africa [...]

Over 32.5 million Nigerians access the Internet via telecommunications networks, the Nigerian Communications Commission has revealed. The fast growing number is led by the rapid rise of smartphone adoption in the country led by smartphone device manufacturers such as Blackberry, Samsung and Huawei.   Nigeria’s largest mobile operator, MTN leads the pack with an estimated 21.3 million users or 65.9% of the overall market share. Airtel, Etisalat and Globacom significantly lag behind with about 5.9 [...]