A curation of essays, interviews, talks, op-eds by and/or featuring yours truly. Also, additional roundups for 2020-2023, 2014-2019 and on COVID-19 ). 2024 How Californian and African City Connections Can Build Up Smart City Diplomacy (An essay I contributed to an exploratory series at Carnegie California to accompany the city of Los Angeles’ development of […]
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A curation of essays, interviews, talks, op-eds by and/or featuring yours truly. Also, additional roundups on COVID-19 and for 2014-2019). 2023 EU AI Act’s possible implications for Africa (I spoke to CGTN Africa on what the landmark legislation could portend for Africa’s AI landscape). On cybersecurity talent and innovation in Africa (On the heels of […]
A curation of interviews, talks, op-eds by/featuring yours truly. You can also check out my op-eds for Kenya’s Daily Nation (2014-2017) here and 2020 onward here. 2019 Recapping 2019: a special podcast interview with Dickens Olewe BBC 100 Women 2019: Who is on the list this year? (Yours truly was! 😊) On Conferences/Events about Africa(ns) […]
The term policy very likely puts off a lot of folks. It probably evokes images of old men in suits and spectacles droning on about something or other. I, on the other hand, am fascinated by (public) policy. The most basic definition of policy is “a course or principle of action adopted or proposed by […]
Abstract Net neutrality deliberations go hand in hand with discussions of upholding and preserving the openness of the Internet, widely perceived as a precondition to the realisation of the Internet’s potential. This is particularly relevant with access to the Internet being increasingly accepted as a basic right. Rules and regulations to uphold net neutrality exist […]
Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of co-authoring a so-titled paper with Dr. Iginio Gagliardone, for the The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). It was a useful exercise in analysing the efforts to enhance cybersecurity in the region, with an initial focus on Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia. Below is the paper’s executive summary, and […]
In 2014, I had the pleasure of contributing to a fascinating production titled Exploring Kenya’s Media Policy Landscape: 1963-2013. Commissioned by the Media Policy Research Centre, I was tasked with exploring the impact of social media on journalism in Kenya. I assessed some conceptual frameworks on social media, social media’s effects on communication – the […]