iHub Research By Angela Crandall / April 25, 2013
The Responsibility of Working with Communities
By: James Ndiga An iHub Research and Ushahidi project, Umati (Swahili for “crowd”), has been monitoring online dangerous speech since September 2012. The Umati (Swahili word for “crowd”) project was set with an aim of identifying and monitoring hate/dangerous speech from the Kenyan online space and forwarding incidences of dangerous
iHub By Gladys Kitony / April 22, 2013
Start –up Corner | Now’s the time to have your story heard!
In keeping up with our community spirit, we would like to reward all start-ups that have formed out of the iHub space.We welcome you to keep us posted on your start-up which we will feature on our blog, which has an audience of over ten thousand people. Isn’t this a
iHub By Juliette Wanyiri / April 21, 2013
International NASA Space Apps Challenge 2013
NASA Space Apps is back! This two-day international event, that was being held in 76 cities around the world from 20th-21st April, was focused on technological development in software, open hardware, data visualisation and citizen science. This year’s challenge required each team to build solutions that could be integrated with
iHub By Jessica Colaco / April 17, 2013
The power of openness in revealing hidden talent in a tech community
I joined the iHub over 3 years ago as the founding manager and it was learning experience: How to work with the tech community? How to set up the space? How to engage the community? Being the Research Scientist, I came up with the following syllogism in 2010: “Mental Frame
iHub By Juliette Wanyiri / April 17, 2013
OPEN HARDWARE
Ever wondered how to make a hardware bartender for mixing cocktails, dubbed Bartendro, which is connected to a wireless network via tablet or smart phone? How to create a video wall using multiple TV screen? Or build a Google Reader but you don’t want to have to learn all about
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