On last weeks post on Nation’s Newsplex, we featured an analytics post on the perception of women issues on social media. The link to the post can be found here: https://www.nation.co.ke/newsplex/onlinegendercampaigns/2718262-5368756-fpvkmz/index.html
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 ...
The 2nd Annual Banking, Financial Services and Insurance Summit will take place in Nairobi on 4 – 5 February 2020. The event brings together some of the top CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, Heads of IT, ICT, Risk, Compliance, Retail Banking, Customer ...
What’s the probability that the Ethiopian flight 320 was Boeings error? https://www.nation.co.ke/newsplex/2718262-5024656-13r6oljz/index.html
There is a 20 km stretch of road along the A104 highway between Sachangwan and Salgaa in Nakuru County that has gained a reputation as the habitation ground of grisly road accidents. The commonplace blame is on a steep unwinding section of the road that currently hosts a black stop signage to caution drivers. Other ...
The political dust has settled in Kenya, the legislative wing of the government is now on full throttle with the re-introduction of the ICT Practitioners Bill and the Presidential ascent of the new Marriage bill permitting polygamy. These debates have intrigued Bobbie Macdonald – a comparative politics PhD student from Stanford currently residing in Kenya. ...
The Election Act 24 of 2011 describes a total of 81 forms for conducting elections in the Republic of Kenya. Infamous among these forms are; Form 34A, 34B, 34C used to transmit Presidential election results. Recent public debates has brought to fore Form 24A legal use by a candidate in withdrawing from a Presidential election. This ...
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 ...
Tomato farming and electricity generation share a common problem – the problem of immediate consumption. Due to lack of scalable means of storage, electricity has to be consumed as soon as it is generated. Furthermore, the demand for electricity rise and fall by day and night. To counter these problems, electricity distribution companies such as KPLC ...
The Kenyatta Family windfall came from the first President of the Republic of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta. Much has been written about how the initial wealth was “acquired”, but of greater importance is how the wealth has been maintained, distributed and expanded. Notable of the first family are the branch from Mama Ngina Kenyatta. However, from piecing ...
The City of Nairobi has 1,695 restaurants – compared to major cities in the world, Nairobi is underserved by restaurants (see chart below). Disparities in per capita income which stands at $1,081 in Nairobi and $54,373 in New York City explains the difference in number restaurants per person. However, an assessment of MPESA’s role in ...
There’s a raging debate on whether Nairobi residents can sustain the mid to high-end businesses being setup in malls and other “middle class” neighbourhoods. What better way of tracking purchasing power of Nairobians than monitoring the conspicuous consumption of coffee 😉 .In the spirit of being humorous and factual, I give you The Espresso Index – ...
In December 2005, I finished my high school education in the lake town of Homa Bay and packed my bags for Nairobi. One of the things I looked forward to was access to interesting books for they were in short supply around Homa Bay town. Luckily, two months into Nairobi adult life I got a job ...
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Kenya Election Alternative: The Limited Preferential Voting
Kenya could borrow a leaf from Papua New Guinea’s electoral practice. With a population of 7.6 million people and 850 spoken languages, Papua New Guinea has one of the world’s most ethnic driven politics. In 2002, the country ushered in a new voting practice known as Limited Preferential Voting to encourage voting for other clan candidates. ...
By blackorwa on October 16, 2017