Build it Kenny, and they will come

Ken Banks has been invited to attend a number of conferences and internal meetings over the next four months. Six of eight confirmed conferences include: - Open Source in Mobile (OSiM), Berlin (September 2008)- Pop!Tech, Maine (October 2008)- “Technology: a platform for development?”, London (October 2008)- 2008 Net Impact, Philadelphia (November 2008)- A Better World By Design, Rhode Island (November 2008)- National Endowment for ....

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kiwanja.net was recently asked to contribute a short essay on mobile technology for "Publius", a Berkman Centre publication which seeks to bring together a "distinguished collection of Internet observers, scholars, innovators, entrepreneurs, activists, technologists and still other experts, to write short essays, to foster an on-going public dialogue". kiwanja's article - "Time to eat our own dog food? Releasing the potential of ....

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This is no ordinary August. In fact, it's a bit of a double anniversary for me... If you'd have come looking for me fifteen years ago, you'd have needed to get yourself to Chilubula, a small town about an hours drive from Kasama in northern Zambia, where I was working on a building project. In little over a month, about fifteen of us (aided ....

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International press interest may be on the wane following the heady heights of recent months, but the daily struggle continues for millions of people living in Zimbabwe. An inflation rate of over two million percent - usually a leading headline in itself - merely serves as a backdrop to the political manoeuvring taking place following the recent flawed presidential 'elections'. It would be all ....

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kiwanja's latest article has just been posted on the PC World website. "Mobile Phones and the Digital Divide" takes a look at some of the challenges the industry is going to have to work through if mobile phones are truly going to be the devices that close the digital divide. The article can be read here ....

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It's 1.4.7... One month ago the new version of FrontlineSMS was released. Well over three hundred NGOs responded and downloaded the software, and over a hundred of them have joined the new online community. Apart from the excitement surrounding the software itself, the new community is already proving its worth. I'd easily have settled for a hundred members after one month - hopefully the other ....

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Found this today on Facebook (sadly no credit available for the artist), a day after posting my latest PC World column on the application of anthropology in ICT. Very funny - and no doubt just how it is... =) ....

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