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Three years ago Internet connectivity was a major concern in Kenya, until the undersea optical fiber cable linking the country to the world was installed. This connectivity has enabled business to collaborate with overseas partners among other benefits, though the super highway has brought yet another problem - Cyber security. This has shifted the priority of the Kenyan government to create awareness and secure virtual systems operating in the internet ecosystem.  read more »

Say goodbye to huge data centres and welcome applications running on the cloud. CIOs in East African countries are now tasked with understanding when and how to embrace cloud computing in their operations.  read more »

Hewlett-Packard (HP), has partnered with Chase Bank, Nairobi for a converged hardware infrastructure to accommodate its new software platform that runs core banking operations. The hardware solution is based on modules which will enable the bank grow at its on pace to achieve business agility.  read more »

The Africa Union (AU) on Monday send out a request for proposal for organisations looking to manage the dotAfrica Top Level Domain name (TLD). The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees allocation of Internet domain names and addresses worldwide will be accepting applications for new generic TLDs (gTLDs) between January 12, 2012, and April 12, 2012, a period which the AU will submit its dotAfrica proposal too.  read more »

The Council of Europe (CoE) not to be confused with the more powerful European Union (EU) is leading the rest of the world in a push to have more countries ratify the Convention on Cybercrime. CoE's former Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal affairs, Head of Economic Crime Division, Alexander Seger, was recently in Nairobi for the sixth Internet Governance Forum (IGF). Seger now heads CoE's new cybercrime division as the organisation reorganised itself to put more structure on cybercrime.  read more »

"A city is made of man-made systems" says Tony Mwai, General Manager IBM who describes a city as a system of systems where each of them has its own information needs.  read more »

The sixth Internet Governance Forum (IGF) came to a close on Friday evening after a successful five days of sessions at the United Nations Offices in Nairobi (UNON), Kenya. The IGF has been touted as the largest attracting over 2,000 participants in Nairobi and another 300 remote participants from across the world.  read more »

Safaricom Limited has announced an increase in all its tariffs in Kenya. Bob Collymore, Safaricom Limited CEO says this is because of the drastic weakening of the Kenyan shilling compared to other currencies which has impacted to a challenging economic situation experienced in Kenya in the recent years.  read more »

Dubbed "Getting Kenyan business online," Google Kenya (gKenya) today hosts the second web and mobile conference at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi. The two-day event has its focal point at marketers, businesses and entrepreneurs.  read more »

SAS is moving in to expand their presence in Kenya. The global software firm with revenues of USD 2.5 billion in revenue today held a breakfast meeting at the Nairobi Intercontinental in conjunction with the Kenya ICT Board. The firm announced that it will set up an office in the country in the next 18 months.  read more »