The following is an article I wrote that was published in the September 2009 edition of the Kenya Institute of Management’s (KIM) Magazine, Management, as a special feature: By all considerations, 2009 has been a remarkable year for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in Kenya. The first game changer of

In the course of this week, two very significant developments happened in Kenya’s Internet content space. The first is that the global online classifieds behemoth CraigsList launched a Kenya variant of their highly popular service at http://kenya.craigslist.org. The second development is that Kenya’s Nation Media Group (NMG) also launched an

So, its just over a month since the SEACOM high speed cable went live, connecting Eastern and Southern African countries to broadband Internet for the very first time. In East Africa, SEACOM is gradually connecting hinterland countries like Rwanda and Uganda through regional and national fibre backbones. However, Kenya has