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Lessons from KODI: Completing the Job

Al KagsGlobal, Government, Open Data, Thought Leadership, world viewMarch 1, 2013

My friend, Alex Howard from O’Reilly Radar, asked me a question in September last year that I have wrestled with since: “What are the lessons learnt from the Kenya Open Data Initiative experience?” I have wrestled with this question all of this time because …

‘The Failure of Satire in Campaign-period Kenya’

Al KagsAfrican issues, Society, Thought Leadership, world viewMarch 1, 2013

My friend Stephen Derwent Partington asked me to post this on my blog (Squatting has taken on a new meaning I think – you heard it coined here first: Blog-Squatting) and since he’s so smart and I have to increase the …

This man Sonko… a new kind of leader?

Al KagsGovernment, Thought LeadershipJanuary 27, 2013

This man Sonko. That he has had three blog posts on this blog, (this being the third after this one and this one), must say that he is making an impact – especially if you examine the changing tone of …

Sonko is an idiot. Maybe not.

Al KagsKenyan PoliticsJanuary 24, 2013

Last year, I wrote an angry blog post, where I wondered who Sonko represents. Young people, I wondered? Not me, I averred. Until last night, I was clear on a couple of things. That Sonko is an uncouth, disoriented, criminal idiot. …

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Lessons from KODI: Completing the Job

‘The Failure of Satire in Campaign-period Kenya’

This man Sonko… a new kind of leader?

Sonko is an idiot. Maybe not.