This is the third in a series discovering how nerds, in Nairobi, get their stuff done. You can read the first and second posts if you haven’t. Interesting to note, most have pretty much the same tools accessible to them as those interviewed here. Cool beans, huh? This time we focus on the girl...

As promised, we have two more Nairobi Nerds, spilling the beans on how they get their mambo done… ‘How Nerds Get It Done’ is a series of posts inspired by this one and tries to find out exactly how our local elite (as in ‘tech-elite’) get to pull some awesome fetes, s...

There will be a Skunkworks Meetup on the 2nd of February 2010. This will be the first meeting this year, and it’s an honor that we will be discussing iHub, Nairobi’s new Tech Innovation Hub… The meeting will be coordinated by Erik Hersman, who is a co-founder at Ushahidi (www.usha...

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...