Op-ed

The latest GSMA report, titled Driving digital transformation of the economy in Kenya, opportunities, policy reforms and the role of...

Kenya, Africa's proverbial Silicon Savanna is about to experience another shakeup affecting digital service providers. Technology startups, betting services, e-commerce...

A recent social media conversation sparked a debate in Kenya. The debate is on patient data privacy, data protection, and...

We are well into October a month that may yet be historic. It is the month Kenyans expect to have...

Could your large social media following be grounds for a lawsuit against you? Is a YouTuber free to share a...

In today’s world, perhaps no piece of standard personal information has more value than your phone number. As we all...

Digital lenders have been in business for an extended period, but their operations have since been halted by the Central...

We argued that tech companies have been copying each other in terms of the number of workers they lay off,...

By John Kamwengu As an ICT pundit, I must admit I was caught off guard when I first heard of...

The global fintech market is valued at close to USD 7300 billion and is projected to grow at an annual...

The 2022 Samsung Unpacked event was held yesterday. This is February so the South Korean technology company usually refreshes its...

The past year has been interesting from a policy POV with the new legislative and regulatory changes in Kenya’s tech...

Every year for the past 6 years we take a trip down memory lane from an ICT Law and Policy...

Let's start with a few disclaimers and disclosures.  First, the opinions and experiences shared herein are solely the author's, personally...

Safaricom has not released a ton of apps over the last couple of years; we can actually track them because...

On 11th June 2020, Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani read the Country’s 2020/2021 Financial Year Budget. There have also been...

When President Uhuru Kenya signed into law the Finance Act 2018, Kenyans did not anticipate the vast implications of the...

Marketing companies, learning institutions or any other utilities have adopted the use of text messages to engage their customers and...

A fair share of Kenyans use mobile money services. Particularly, Safaricom’s M-PESA users are in the excess of 21 million...

The future of video has never been so bright as it appears just about now. From a marketing, and content creation...

A typical Kenyan day involves at least one instance where you will leave your phone number either at a security desk...

A decade or so ago, online shopping and associated e-commerce services were unheard of in the country. This has changed...

This past weekend photographer @simplykech raised a claim against several parties including, musician Octopizzo that his photo (of Octo) was...

Digitization is changing the rules of the game. The digital economy carries the promise of unlimited opportunities, as the latest...

Time to mitigation for professional DDoS protection needs to be emphasized more for many organization as this can mean the...

60 per cent of consumers think their information is safe when they are using public WiFi - completely unaware of...

Taking a peek into 2018 and predicting what we look forward to in the coming year in Kenya legal tech....

Social media has had an unparalleled impact on the world. While the jury is still out on whether the general...

Why is your Kenya Power bill about to shoot up dramatically? If you've read the news recently, you'll have seen...

Free WiFi is a marketing strategy that draws on customers’ immediate internet needs, but someone has to pay for it....

To get small and medium businesses using ICT services more extensively, we have to overcome complexity, affordability, connectivity and a...

Has it ever happened to you that you were out of cash and the only thing you had was a...

For an organization whose name literally means ‘testimony’, there appears to be a problem at Ushahidi. The company has been...

Ever since smartphones hit the markets, human beings have had enough time to interact with the devices and form peculiar...