Category: Guest Speaker
Democracy and Rights Festival 2019
On this year’s edition of the Democracy and Rights Festival, I was invited to make a presentation on data around extrajudicial killings in Kenya. Nation Media Groups data journalism segment Nation Newsplex created the Deadly Force Database , a database of extrajudicial killings based on public, media, and human rights reports and on official records ...
The Hub in the Wild
Sandwiched between Tsavo East and Tsavo West national park is a new technology hub that is raising the technology profile of Voi town. SoteHub , founded in 2010 from the Sote ICT project has been offering business training to students and startups in Taita Taveta county. A few weeks ago, Frank Tamre, Collins Oduor, and I were ...
Losing My Virginity
Back when I was in university it was customary to attend WAPI, a monthly artistic event hosted by the British Council at their offices in Upper Hill, Nairobi. My usual ‘partner in crime’ was @malel and we had a selective routine procedure, first sample the graffiti, check out the clothing designs and end at the ...
Guest Speaking at Rotaract Muthaiga
On March 18th, 2012 I gave a talk at Rotaract Muthaiga titled ‘Emerging Trends and Technologies’ on the invitation of @French_Freddy . In a nutshell I took them through the history of jobs/employements, the nature of such jobs and the careers that emerged during the renaissance, industrial revolution and now the information age with emphasis ...
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