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Kenya leveraging on tech to combat counterfeits

Counterfeit products pose a major challenge to manufacturers in Kenya with the loss estimated at  between Sh85billion and Sh...

MozzartBet turns heat on Sh256m software supplier

Betting firm MozzartBet has moved to court to freeze the accounts of a supplier over Sh256 million allegedly paid...

The state of Cyber Security in Kenya

The regulatory authority responsible for ICT, and specifically CyberSec in Kenya is the Communication Authority (CA) of Kenya. It...

Kenyan, Ugandan Firm Team Up to Roll Out an Agency Banking Platform

A Kenya-based tech firm, Software Group, has partnered with BRAC Uganda Bank Ltd to rollout market-leading Agency Banking digital platform. According to a press statement from Software group, the global software company with its regional head office in Nairobi, won a new contract for its latest Agency Banking platform with BRAC Uganda Bank Ltd, a [...]

How Kenya’s new personal data protection law could affect researchers

The risk of infringing on privacy is growing by the day given the increased frequency and granularity of the data being collected, and advances in the technology for processing them. This has, inevitably, led to the need for laws to secure personal data privacy. Researchers and research data are not exempt: advances in big data [...]

Goodbye Project “Loon”

Remember the Loon Project to Kenya? It was one of Google's parent company, Alphabet, long-term experimental projects. The company...

Loon sends internet connection balloons to Kenya

The fruition of a project that has been a decade in the making, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc, which...