By Margaret Nyambura. Artificial intelligence that is popularly known as “AI’’is one of the topic that we had during the 2019 Kenya School of Internet Governance. The Artificial Intelligence technology is here to stay and no longer a thing of the past. What started as a research project on how AI works, has now become …
Written by Mwara Gichanga Kenya’s financial sector is on the brink of yet another sweeping revolution that will define the playing field in the next decades to come: financial technology. Fintech, as it is increasingly being referred to, is taking the industry by storm, causing a major disruption becoming a trailblazer and redefining the financial …
Written by Mwara Gichanga As the world’s biggest social network, Facebook has held a contentious place in the ongoing debate about what role social media is playing in how information is spread around the world today. The norm is that more conversations has moved online and with that a lot of hateful, ugly and false information …
Article written by Mwara Gichanga As the online discussions carried on throughout the week, online/cyber-bullying also came up as point of discussion especially in this digital era where most conversations have moved from offline to online platforms. To grasp the gravity of the issues concerning online bullying we must first understand what it is. Ronald …
Written by Samuel Muchiri, KESIG 2017 participant. If man was left to their own nature it would be very chaotic hence laws are necessary to regulate human affairs and the internet is no exception to this as it was explained by Victor Kapiyo during introduction to legal issues that emanate from this space. There are …
Written by Samuel Muchiri, KESIG 2017 participant. Internet stakeholders are major contributors to the development and governance of Internet. They were termed as entities that use the internet as was defined by Mwendwa Kivuva of Afrnic. Internet governance categorizes them into 5 or 6 groups that is the government, civil society, business community, technical community, …
Written by Samuel Muchiri, KESIG participant. “Because of internet’s nature it cannot be governed by a single sector – it has a lot of “haki yetu”” said Grace Githaiga during her opening remarks at the opening of this year’s start of Kenya School of Internet Governance. The idea of Kenya School of Internet Governance (KSIG) …
Written by Jefferson Anyega: KESIG 2017 participant. The Kenya School of Internet Governance, presently in its second edition, focuses on raising awareness about emerging internet governance issues. The definition of internet governance has evolved over the years as stakeholders understanding of its role in shaping the digital era changed. The World Summit on Information Society, …
It is an election period in Kenya. A season of loud hope that your favourite politician will win and the quiet fear of electoral violence. This fear is due to our unhealed scars from the 2007 post-election violence. Other than the fact that the results of that election were contested, the violence has been blamed …
According to Alice Munyua former Chair of the Kenya Internet Governance Forum and Convener of the Kenya ICT Action Network , the Internet Governance Forum has the most impact at national level (Kenya IGF Report, 12 August 2016). The forum has promoted the use of the multistakeholder model in public policy development across different sectors …