by David Indeje | Sep 1, 2023 | Access to information, Highlights
By John Walubengo. Kenyan President William Ruto has taken a keen interest in the global challenge of climate change. From September 4–6, Nairobi will host the Africa Climate Summit where over twenty heads of state and government and their high-level delegations of...
by David Indeje | Aug 24, 2023 | Access to information, Freedom of Expression, Highlights, Human Rights, kictanet
We, the undersigned organisations, note with great concern a petition tabled on 15 August 2023 before Kenya’s National Assembly seeking to ban TikTok. While we note the salient issues concerning TikTok’s content moderation practices that have led to the spread of...
by David Indeje | Aug 8, 2023 | Access to information, Cyber Security, kictanet post, Privacy
By John Walubengo The Cabinet Secretary in charge of Interior Security, Prof. Kithure Kindiki, ordered the Kenyan operations of a startup organization called Worldcoin to stop last week. This came after the media reported long queues of Kenyans who were receiving 50...
by David Indeje | Jul 27, 2023 | Access to information, Digital Resilience, Highlights, Human Rights, kictanet post
The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multistakeholder platform and think tank based in Nairobi. The network provides mechanisms and a framework for continuing cooperation and collaboration in ICT matters among stakeholders. It also encourages synergies for ICT...
by Neema Mujesia | Jul 21, 2023 | Access to information, Digital Resilience, Highlights, kictanet post
Safaricom, a leading telecommunications company in Kenya, has faced legal challenges from customers who lost funds in M-PESA and M-Shwari accounts. In a recent case, the High Court upheld a ruling that Safaricom was liable for a customer’s loss of KES 751,680 due to a...
by David Indeje | Jun 14, 2023 | Access, Access to information, Digital Economy, Highlights, kictanet post
By John Walubengo It has been slowly happening over the last twenty years, but developing countries haven’t been keen to notice. We do have what is currently called the ‘Data Divide’ though some would want to call it the ‘Data Colonisation’. The “data...
