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KDN subscribers enjoy more bandwidth[Carole Kimutai] Kenya Data Networks have quadrupled its bandwidth offering for all its existing and new clients. This offer went into effect on Wednesday, 21 October 2009. Clients previously receiving 1Mbps now enjoy 4Mbps and only pay for 1Mbps and the other 3Mbps are offered free of charge. 26 Oct 2009 07:41 Refugees take on digital jobsRefugees living at the world's largest makeshift camp in Kenya are being offered the opportunity to earn up to two US dollars an hour by participating in a digital pilot project. 16 Oct 2009 09:37 Mobile Internet revolution targets Africa's rural areas[Issa Sikiti da Silva] After sweeping the urban population off its feet, the mobile Internet revolution is now targeting the rural areas of Africa, where more than 70% of the continent's 890 million people live in extreme poverty and in the fringes of society, thanks to governments' ‘discriminatory' policies prioritising urban areas. 15 Oct 2009 07:29 Alvarion, Safaricom to deploy nationwide WiMAX network in KenyaAlvarion has announced its selection by Kenyan mobile services provider Safaricom for a three-year turnkey WiMAX project to deploy high-speed broadband services throughout Kenya. Using Alvarion's BreezeMAX solution at 3.5 GHz frequency band, the WiMAX network will enable wireless broadband for residential and corporate users, rural areas, municipalities, banks, schools and universities. 8 Oct 2009 07:55 Finlay shuts down Mara Mara factory
Joint ICT project launched for education in KenyaNAIROBI: Intel, Cisco, Microsoft, the government of Kenya and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a joint partnership to improve education in Kenya. Launched in collaboration with Kenya's Ministry of Education, the Accelerating 21st Century Education (ACE) project aims to improve the quality of primary and secondary education through the effective use of information and communications technology (ICT). 25 Sep 2009 10:54 Altech increases stake in KDNAllied Technologies (Altech) earlier this week announced that it would increase its economic stake in Kenya Data Networks (KDN) from 51% to 60.8% by investing a further USD39.5 million into the company. The capital injection will be used to roll out the KDN fibre-optic network. 25 Sep 2009 09:50 Kenya: e-Commerce is here, finally
Kenya: Consumers furious over high internet prices[Carole Kimutai] SEACOM and the East African Marine Systems (TEAMS) undersea fibre optic cables went live about a month ago but internet consumers in Kenya are yet to enjoy price cuts. The arrival of the much hyped fibre optic cable raised expectations amongst Kenyan consumers who were looking forward to faster speeds, more bandwidth and cheaper connectivity costs. 9 Sep 2009 10:35 Kenya: Farmers “need help to reap rewards of El-Niño rains”NAIROBI: Following below-average harvests in 2007 and 2008, Kenya's grain farmers need seed and fertiliser support to enable them to make use of El Niño rains, expected between October and December 2009, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says. 28 Aug 2009 09:51 Kenya: Massive crop failure in "grain basket"
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Biggest windfarm in Africa slated for Kenya[Alison Walkley] A 300 megawatt windfarm, coined the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project, is being developed in Kenya in the hope of decreasing the country's greenhouse gas emissions. A total of 365 wind turbines are slated for installation in northern Kenya. 17 Aug 2009 10:39 Media News powered by allAfrica.com > More news >> Latest jobs | Ad showcase |
NJORO: Two months before harvest time, the maize in Kenya's Rift Valley should be tall, lush and green, bursting with life. Instead, crops in the province's Lare division are stunted, barren fields of parched browns and pallid yellows. 
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