Kenyan entrepreneurs win big in NYC

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http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130208002058-36792-kenyan-entrepreneurs-win-big-in-nyc

Published on February 8, 2013 4:45 am.
Filed under: Innovation, Science 'n' Technology Tags: ,

Kenya begins construction of ‘silicon’ city Konza

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21173158

Published on January 23, 2013 9:49 am.
Filed under: Business, Jobs Tags: , ,

From flying toilets to fertiliser, slum sanitation in Nairobi is changing

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/nov/19/flying-toilets-fertiliser-slum-sanitation-nairobi

Published on November 20, 2012 9:56 pm.
Filed under: Business, Ecology, Health and Hygiene Tags: , ,

Kenyan capital Nairobi gets new train

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-20310767

Published on November 13, 2012 6:41 am.
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Kenya building a digital future in Africa’s silicon savannah

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/30/kenya-silicon-savannah-digital-technology

Published on November 2, 2012 11:17 pm.
Filed under: Science 'n' Technology, Social Tags: , ,

What Kenyan students’s startup could do that a big telecommunications giant Airtel couldn’t do!

Check out the inside story on what a team of Kenyan graduate students’s startup did during a Spring internship with a pay of $150 a month that Bharti Airtel proposed for $1.9 million

 

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http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/39673/

Published on February 22, 2012 11:39 pm.
Filed under: Business, Enterprising, Science 'n' Technology, Social Tags: , , ,

Wind power project raises development hopes in N. Kenya

An upcoming Wind power project raises development hopes in North Kenya. But will it REALLY benefit the locals who live in (energy) poverty?

Published on November 16, 2011 6:30 am.
Filed under: Ecology, Science 'n' Technology, Social Tags: ,

Solar street lamps help Nairobi see the light

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http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/solar-street-lamps-help-nairobi-see-the-light

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

Published on November 8, 2011 12:30 am.
Filed under: Ecology Tags: , , ,

Kenyan farmers beat drought – and then battle pests

A drought-resistant maize variety sits on display outside a retail seed outlet in Machakos, Kenya. ALERTNET/David Njagi

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http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/kenyan-farmers-beat-drought-and-then-battle-pests/

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

Published on September 29, 2011 3:52 pm.
Filed under: Agriculture Tags: , ,

Africa Views – Information as aid in East Africa’s famine

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http://www.trust.org/alertnet/blogs/africa-views/information-as-aid-in-east-africas-famine/

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

Published on September 22, 2011 3:45 pm.
Filed under: Enterprising, Science 'n' Technology, Social Tags: , , ,

Backpack Farms: Targeted solutions to help African farmers become more resistant to drought

 

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http://dowser.org/backpack-farms-targeted-solutions-to-help-african-farmers-become-more-resistant-to-drought/

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Dowser Media

Published on August 10, 2011 10:43 pm.
Filed under: Agriculture, Economy Tags: , , , ,

‘Stove Man’ videos aim to light a fire

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http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/Change-Agent/2011/0628/Stove-Man-videos-aim-to-light-a-fire

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The Christian Science Monitor

Published on July 5, 2011 1:43 pm.
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