Liberty vs Control
Bruce Schneier on the NSA (and others) surveillance state: Too many wrongly characterize the debate as “security versus privacy.” The real choice is liberty versus control. Read the rest This is the...
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A Turkana Solar Eclipse Expedition
It’s been a few years since I was last up in the northern reaches of Kenya, and what an adventure that was! (blog posts 1, 2, 3 and 4) BRCK Solar Eclipse trip, photo courtesy of Barak Bruerd on our...
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“When You Get to Kenya”
“Because the falam is flooded, you can drive back through South Horr, then to Baragoi then to Maralal, alafu utafika Kenya (then you’ll be in Kenya)” Said a Samburu man to us in Northern Kenya. There...
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Tech Talent and Expat Bubbles – Kenya Edition
(Note: cathartic, bloated essay forthcoming, read at your peril) Say you are a Kenyan web designer living in Seattle, do you think anyone cares that you came from Kenya? No, they only care that you are...
View ArticleA Suswa Excursion
BRCK Excursion: Mt. Suswa from WhiteAfrican on Vimeo. We took a day ride out past the Ngong Hills into the Rift Valley and up Mt. Suswa. Here’s a (very) short video where were playing with a DJI...
View ArticleManaging with Trust and Expectation
For the past 6 years I’ve been part of a rather unique organization in Ushahidi, where we decided early on that how we’d run the organization was that we would trust each other and expect that everyone...
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Remembering the Genius and Grace of Carey Eaton
Carey Eaton, with Isis Nyongo and Mbwana Alliy at PivotEast last year Carey Eaton was one of the true sparks of genius in Kenya’s tech ecosystem… in Africa’s. “It is with great sadness and regret that...
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Kazi ya Mkono
Entrepreneurs who succeed are hungrier, and they get their hands dirty. A couple stories: The Coffee Man Pete Owiti is a coffee connoisseur, he learned the trade back in the late 90′s as one of Java...
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The Road to Harare, and the Zimbabwe Tech Hubs
We made it into Harare, Zimbabwe last night after a long 17-hours traveling. Due to the rainstorm in South Africa we were forced to sleep 230km from the Beit Bridge border crossing, well shy of the...
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The Cross Section of a Tech Ecosystem
I end up talking a lot about our tech community here in Kenya and I’ve had a front seat to what it looks like from the iHub. In my mind, I think about it like the cable conduit below, where you have...
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