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iHub Research By Editor / June 6, 2013

Online vs. Offline: Tales from Mathare

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By Chris Orwa (@blackorwa) Last week, the iHub Research team visited Mathare to interview residents to better understand any disjoint between offline and online worlds in respect to incident reporting during the 4th March elections. From our initial interviews, it is apparent that much more happened than was reported on

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iHub Research By Angela Crandall / May 24, 2013

Characteristics of Incident Reporters on Twitter

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By: Chris Orwa As part of our Crowdsourcing Validation project, during the general Kenyan elections in March 2013, iHub Research collected over 2.5 million tweets related to the polls. We are now in the process of crunching the data to unravel the profile of tweeps highly likely to report an

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iHub Research By Leo Mutuku / May 20, 2013

Open Data in Developing Countries -Monitoring and Evaluation study on Kenyan OD technologies

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  By Elly Okutoyi iHub Research   For the past six weeks, iHub Research has been conducting an ongoing Monitoring and Evaluation study on the impact of open data applications and technologies in promoting access to information . The focus for this study include technologies born out of the Code4Kenya (http://www.code4kenya.org/) pre-incubator

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iHub By Gladys Kitony / May 17, 2013

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – 2013 L’Oreal-UNESCO: Regional fellowship for Women in Science in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Women scientists who are nationals or permanent residents of any country in Sub-Saharan Africa have from 01 April to 30 June 2013 to apply for the 2013  L’OREAL-UNESCO Regional Fellowships. The aim of the  fellowship is to assist women scientist to achieve a PhD degree in all fields of science. Ten fellowships to the value of

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