Open Source and Free Web Applications You Might Like

We expect internet usage in Africa to double in the next few months and that gets us thinking of a few things we need to work on to tap some profitability before the Internet becomes another way of taking the African resources to the west because they already have systems in use. I have had [...]

Kenya, Tanzania Owns Only 35% of Seacom Cable

Good job done by Seacom so far is commendable. So I take a moment to try and figure out who Seacom is and according to their website, “SEACOM is a Mauritian company owned 75% by African investors as a collaboration between East and Southern Africans and owns 100% of the SEA International Cable. A small [...]

Time to Get Creative, Fiber is Here

There is an old Kikuyu saying that goes …”You cannot take a donkey to the river and force it to drink the water”. So Seacom has delivered proper bandwidth at our doorsteps. Soon retailers will be giving us a share of the affordable and better internet. Question is, what are we going to do with [...]

Get your own .ke Blog for 7k

Just thinking, I want to play a role in the Internet revolution in Kenya and also make some small dime. We all most likely have blogs running on either wordpress, blogspot or self hosted. I am offering to register a domain name of your choice (.co.ke, has to be available), offer you hosting and install [...]

On Student Riots and Live Police Bullets

I will never stop being amazed by some of the things we wake up to read in the news. This morning am shocked at a news item about students being shot by police while on riot at a Kampala international school. Student riots can get ugly and I have no doubt about that but my [...]

Safaricom among the first to use Seacom Link

Seacom may have arrived in Kenya but the expectation that people had on 23rd July were way beyond reality. People, including those with little use for the internet expected a complete U-Turn which basically takes time, resources, will and the correct planning. Good news though, Safaricom has gone live on the Seacom link.
Am currently using [...]

Welcome to Majibu, what to expect…

This is the first post on Majibu.com. Majibu is Swahili for answers. So yeah, you can expect answers to most common questions in picked categories. Basically its based on my experiences on the web and in life. You can call me Dr. Charm, I live in East Africa where internet just landed via the under [...]

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