Looking at the positive side of the COVID-19 pandemic
By Lynn Anyango what is really going on in the world right now might think I am crazy right? Covid-19 is devastating but we all have to be strong and believe that God is going to take this pandemic...
View ArticleInvitation for public participation and submission of memoranda
Finally, there is some progress and good news to the ICT practitioners in Kenya. The Information Communication Technology Practitioners Bill, 2020 (National Assembly Bill No. 38 of 2020) introduced by...
View ArticleThe Freedom of Expression and the Digital Environment in Eastern Africa
In 2015, Kenya accepted a wide range of recommendations including to specifically guarantee freedom of expression, associations, and peaceful assembly of journalists, activists, and participants in...
View ArticleMost Kenyans state that they will be worse off financially if the spread of...
The negative impact of Covid-19 on the country’s economy continues to be felt across the country in almost all households. It is said that nine out of ten Kenyans say that they will be worse off...
View ArticleDCI Arrests Blogger Edgar Obare Over Fraud Claims
Blogger Edgar Obare was last evening arrested for publishing information that is deemed false on his Instagram handle. According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the blogger runs a...
View ArticleAddressing The Challenges To The Rollout of Covid-19 Vaccines in African...
The Rockefeller Foundation has been at the forefront of closing the inequity gap through covid-19 testing and investing. Ahead of the vaccine rollout in Africa, the foundation announced an initial of...
View ArticleHow Social Media Fueled Misinformation During The Covid-19 Pandemic
Social media has become a very crucial tool for communication in recent days with almost everyone now depending on it fully largely interaction and as a source of news due to its reliability and...
View ArticleSocial Practices and The Stigma Around Covid-19
While Covid-19 came about unexpectedly, we had high possibilities of it ending in a few weeks and having everything go about normally as it used to be. We anticipated to have a Covid-19 free 20201 and...
View ArticleCovid-19 in Africa and How Governments Have Adopted Measures To Curb its Spread
The first case of Covid-19 in the world was first reported in Wuhan, China in 2019. However, the origin of the virus and transmission to human beings is still unknown. It was speculated that the virus...
View ArticleKCAA Allowed to Operationalize Drone Charges in Kenya
The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) has been permitted to operationalize the Civil Aviation (Regulatory Fees Charged for Unmanned Aircraft Systems) after they were acceded by the National...
View ArticleKenyans’ reaction to the Covid-19 vaccine
Kenya received its first batch of the covid-19 vaccine on the 3rd of March 2021. The Ministry of Health received about one million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine at the Jomo Kenyatta International...
View ArticleThe Rising Covid-19 Cases in The Third Wave of The Pandemic
In the past few weeks, Kenya has registered an increase in the positivity rate of covid-19 up to about 22 per cent from 5 per cent in the previous period. Despite there being an introduction of the...
View ArticleFACT CHECK: DCI Letter Subjected to Vehicle Clearing Agents is Fake
Early this week, there has been a letter circulating online directing all clearing agents to subject their vehicles to a forensic analysis/tape lift that was alleged to have been shared by the...
View ArticleBusiness and Human Rights Issues Within the Tech Sector
Human rights activities date back to the early years of national development across the globe and have served as standard tools for governments to coordinate and prioritise actions on a topic....
View ArticleThe Role of National Action Plans on Business Human Rights
National Action Plans are a set of well structured and comprehensive ideas that provide a framework for anchoring national regulation of business conduct in relation to human rights. Kenya is the first...
View ArticleNEMA Shifts Blame on Protecting Lake Victoria and Lake Nakuru
The National Environmental Management Authority remains non-committal in protecting Lake Victoria and Nakuru despite confirming that their mandate to safeguard the health of citizens remains critical...
View ArticleCA in last stages of children, niche and local content programming guidelines...
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) is in the last stages of the review of children, niche, and local content programming guidelines, to accommodate the ever-evolving broadcasting models....
View ArticleKEPSA Appoints First Female Chair, Ms Flora Mutahi, During 17th Annual...
The Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) has appointed Ms Flora Mutahi as the first female Board Chair and Mr. Jaswinder Bedi as the Vice-Chair. Ms Mutahi is part of the new leadership team unveiled...
View ArticleCivic body Vuka! moves to counter stigmatisation, criminalization of foreign...
The Vuka! Coalition under the auspices of its Rapid Response and Catalytic Initiatives Action Teams will rely on a series of dialogues to unpack the three key elements of civic space resourcing:...
View ArticleSanergy and Amitruck partner for sustainable waste management
Technology startup Amitruck and waste management solutions provider Sanergy have announced a partnership to tackle waste management in Nairobi, Kenya. Through the partnership, they have built an...
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