My Top10 Picks… Art, Design, Electrical, Mechanical… The Maker Faire Africa 2010, second edition celebrating African ingenuity, innovation and invention, was held on the 27th and 28th of August. Here are afer highlights of the exciting exhibits on display at the show. 1. Pata Pata Art Pa...

at the iHubNairobi Every FOSS allied geek has his/her cryptonite. Mine caught up with me a week ago when I had to indulge in the forbidden drink, ‘wine-doors’. Since I went *nix about five years ago, I’ve managed to do almost anything under the sun comfortably under Linux except,...

First Peaks The Ministry of Higher Education and Technology has organized a Robot Contest (RoboCon), between Kenyan Universities and middle level colleges. The regional competition is taking place today at the Kenya Polytechnic. Here are the first looks at the Robots from institutions taking part in...

Paula Kahumbu - WildLife Direct This self professed tree hugger does not watch TV. Instead she has ‘the wild’ for her daily dose of actions and admits she fights for the environment for a selfish reason. She just wants to enjoy it. Many Kenyans, including me, have grown up being taught t...

Now this was one event I that will live in my heart. It was as it promised to be, a confluence of people with ideas worth spreading! For a moment there, I couldn’t help notice that there was a little part of me in everyone who spoke… and what was most thrilling was the emotional roller c...

There will be a Skunkworks Meeting, this Tuesday, 4th August at Teleposta Towers, 4th Floor, MMU. The we are honored to have the Information and Communication PS, Bitange Ndemo, giving the talk. The talk will cover the following topics: ICT Entrepreneurship in Kenya Fibre; What it can do for Kenya...

Time: 2.30 pm Date: Tuesday, 4th AugustVenue: Engineering Department, University of NairobiSpeaker: Dr. Luke Ouko Luke Ouko graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology’sMedia Lab in Media Arts and Sciences specializing in Media Technology.He did most of his research at MIT’s Ar...

From Afrigadget, WhiteAfrican Maker Faire Africa (MFA) is a new event celebrating the innovation, ingenuity and invention within Africa – happening August 14-16 of this year in Accra, Ghana. It’ll be a convergence of the types of individuals who show up on AfriGadget and Timbuktu Chro...

A mobile boot camp is a crash-course session usually spanning 2 – 3 days, whereby participants will gain insights on mobile application development as well as acquire practical skills on the use of current platforms, frameworks and tools used for the development of mobile applications. Strathmore ...

The ministry of higher education has organized a Robot Contest between kenyan universities and middle level colleges. The contest will be based on the need to provide sufficient food to the Kenyan communities for their upkeep. For this to be achieved the food must be transported from the granary to...