By Francis Monyango When I walked into the Visual Room of Las Naves building, I expected to see faces from the global south. But the attendees present were from all over the world. I took a deep breath and I smiled. I welcomed them to the session then I asked them to introduce themselves. “Hi, …
This article was first published in the Daily Nation newspaper February 22, 2018. I was buying a SIM card when the customer care agent asked me to pose for a photo, saying it was a government requirement. I would later discover, after reading the Kenya Information and Communications (Registration of SlM Cards) Regulations, 2015, that …
This article was first published in the Business Daily September 21, 2017. The Computer and Cybercrimes Bill 2017 is a major improvement from the two cybercrime Bills published by the Senate and the National Assembly last year. The objectives are to protect the confidentiality and integrity of computer systems, programmes, data while preventing unlawful use …
This article was first published in the Nairobi Law Monthly June 2017 edition. When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was being drafted over 50 years ago, no one could have foreseen the impact of some of its provisions on the future. Priority was world peace as the world was just healing from the Second …
This article was first published in the Nairobi Business Monthly May. It is no secret that technology has disrupted the media industry. In the past few years, media houses have downscaled operations, leading to many loss of jobs and have also changed their approach and joined the muddy battle for clicks. Every media house now …
This article was first published in the Nairobi Business Monthly magazine December 2016. Web presence is a requirement in modern business. It is hard to trust a business entity which you cannot Google. How else will you know about the previous customers’ feedback? Trending online can really boost sales and businesses strive to trend for …
This article was first published in the Nairobi Business Monthly magazine September 30, 2016. Lady Justice Mumbi Ngugi of the High Court of Kenya declared, in May, section 29 (b) of the Kenya Information and Communication Act unconstitutional. This provision of law was found to be vague by the learned judge. Geoffrey Andare, a web …
This article was first published in the Business Daily newspaper September 1, 2016. Land is dear to Kenyans. Despite how we abhor agriculture, everyone wants to own a plot somewhere. A result of this obsession is a lot of speculation in buying of land, over pricing and graft in the land registries. The process of …
This article was first published in the Business Daily newspaper 14 August 2016. If there is an industry that is hard to regulate, it is information and communication technology. Other than being too dynamic, it is complex. There is a common saying that a year in tech is 90 days. This means it is an …
This article was first published in the Business Daily newspaper 26 July 2016. In February, the Bangladesh Central Bank was hacked and $81 million stolen in hours. Cybercrime is a common occurrence in today’s digital world. Many nations and entities are usually caught flatfooted when such attacks occur. To address the problem, the ICT ministry …