Publications

By JOHN WALUBENGO I always hesitate talking about crypto-currencies and their economy because they always take away the thunder from the more important benefits of blockchain technologies. However, in recent months, Kenya has become flooded with many projects launching their own version of crypto-co...

By: Tomslin Samme-Nlar Globally, people are connecting more and more “things” to the Internet. Devices that were traditionally offline or dumb like refrigerators, cars, watches, home cameras, air condition, door locks, agriculture monitoring devices, etcetera, are now being connected to the Inte...

By: Arthur Gwagwa Introduction Due to its unprecedented ability to continually learn from collected data, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are transforming the publication of online content, for better or for worse. Today, the search engine algorithm decides the results of our searches (Nai...

By JOHN WALUBENGO I have written extensively about the implications of the dominance of Safaricom over the Kenyan economy and its implication as a potential single point of failure. To be fair, the M-Pesa service has only failed twice or thrice in its 10-year history and that should be com...

By JOHN WALUBENGO There has been talk that Kenyan leading communication operators are experimenting or testing next-generation mobile technologies like 5G. This is all very good but there are some issues worth discussing as we head into the 5G world. Perhaps, so as to be on the same page, we should ...

By: Oloyede Ridwan Abstract The continent is witnessing a burgeoning growth in its digital economy. The increased internet penetration means more users joining the grid and has seen growth in the adoption and application of digitalisation in governance and business models. The emerging datafied mode...

By Michael Awoleye (Ph.D) Background Activities in ICT clusters hold promising potentials as agents of industrial regeneration. This is a major element in the quest of building knowledge-driven economy. The influence of innovations on business performance cannot be overemphasised; it has been adjudg...

By Afolabi Elebiju and Chuks Okoriekwe Introduction In line with global trends, Nigeria’s Information Technology (IT) sector has been witnessing increasing investment, growth, and innovation from both global and local stakeholders. Home grown tech start-ups are positioning themselves as increasing...

By JOHN WALUBENGO As the Christmas Season kicks in and the year comes to an end, it is customary to do stock taking of what worked and what failed during the year. It was quite a busy year from policy, legislative and regulatory perspectives with three key ICT related policies and acts being put on ...