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33-year-old Emma Nyambura led the team that coordinated transfer of servers across three across three continents. “Emma Gichonge was the Project Manager in charge. Not available for poaching! #MPESAImewasili,” wrote Mr Collymore, cheekily alluding to the recent appointment of the company’s Director of Corporate Affairs Nzioka Waita as the Secretary of Delivery in the Office of...

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) has won the Grand Challenges Explorations grant, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to foster groundbreaking research in global health and development. Dr. Agnes Mindila, a Lecturer and ICT for Development researcher at the Department of Computing and COD at the Department of Information Technology will...

The JKUAT School of Computing and Information Technology (SCIT) in collaboration with Microsoft conducted a training to sensitize students on the Microsoft Graph, a unified API (Application Programming Interface) that is used to build apps for organizations and consumers who interact with large amounts of data. Speaking during the training, held June 20, 2019, Microsoft...

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Kariuki KJ IT course and exam  involves designing a software project that will solve problems in our society. All students are required to undertake this venture with the help of supervisors. The process involves individual and team work whose outcome have led to innovation of new products. The climax involves presentation of...

The new world economy has gone digital, heralding the age of disruption. This became clear at a futurist conference I attended this past week. Technology is making a new onslaught on economic, social and political spheres. Already the landscape in media, education, health, agricultural production, advanced manufacturing and biotechnology is experiencing unimaginable transformation, and the...

Ever since Thomas Panek learned at age 20 that he would lose his eyesight due to a condition called retinal degeneration, he vowed that his disability would not prevent him from living a full life. “I wanted to do everything that sighted people do,” he says. He has not let himself down: In addition to...

Smart Harvest in partnership with Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (KARLO), and Smart Farmer magazine are holding the first-ever East Africa Digital Farmers Conference next week and for me, this is welcome and timely. Indeed, the next level farming will be driven by data and technology. Despite the proven potential of digital tools to...

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Kariuki K Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co said it would spin off and merge its struggling IT services business with Computer Sciences Corp, allowing the company to focus on its cloud services business and other fast-growing units. Shares of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, formed after Hewlett-Packard Co formally split in November, rose 10.5 percent...

“Prof. Schmidt (Centre) presents a signage of the Data Analytics Centre to Prof. Imbuga as Dr. Blumbach looks on…” A new centre to drive data sciences and business analytics in Africa has been unveiled at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. The Kenyan German Centre for Data Analytics (KGDA) is a culmination of successful...

A new center to drive data sciences and business analytics in Africa has been unveiled at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology.  The Kenyan German Centre for Data Analytics (KGDA) is a culmination of successful academic and research collaboration between JKUAT and the German Flensburg University of Applied Sciences (FUAS). The Centre is expected...