Late today afternoon, I had a thought to crowd-source traffic information via Twitter, just for Nairobi. I passed on the idea to fellow Iborian tweeps (twitter-people) and response is slow but sure, sure. Not wanting to sound cliche, however, we are a peculiar people. If M-Pesa worked ‘onR...

The newly acquired MIT Fablab at the University of Nairobi’s Science and Technology Park is a unique and exciting design environment created to encourage innovation. The Fablab is equipped with mostly table-top CNC machines will serve as a rapid prototyping center in the Science Park’s business ...

For the last one month I have been doing some research on the EV’s(Electric Vehicles) that are manufactured in the US and Europe to find out their best design criteria and approach. For those of you who missed this, De Uitvinders(The Inventors Foundation – Netherlands) in conjuction with Dev...

After a relatively long hiatus, I am determined not to abandon this forum for a while now. With my exams out of the way, I will do a round-up similar to the November post for purposes of catching-up. Here we go… Aga Khan University: Projected Arts and Sciences University in Tanzania Last month...

It’s been two months of buzz, excitement, relief and disappointment for some. Not having been able to catch as much as a breath, I’ve decided to melt it all into a Round-Up, hopefully informative. Information and Communications BillWhen the village-cryer’s house is burning, he wail...

The Inventers (De Uitvinders) is project initiated in the Netherlands by Hugo Vridag, an Expressive Artist, Film maker. It is one of the initiatives through which the Technific Foundation is promoting technological thinking among young people. He is in Kenya to pursue the project under the auspices ...

WAZA is an up and fast becoming popular club in the School of Engineering at the University of Nairobi. Participants meet every week on Thursday and Saturday for interactive sessions that revolve around how innovation and technology can be used to provide modern and affordable solutions for our day ...