Innovation

• Students' Usalama mobile app boosts individual safety

  
  1 month ago
  Three Strathmore University graduates have developed an application that is meant to fix public safety problems in Kenya and beyond

• JKUAT student improvices floor cleaning device for persons with disability

  
  1 month ago
  A Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology student has invented a cleaning device to help people scrub their floors with fewer struggles

• Opinion: Transforming Kenya through science and innovation

  1 month ago
  Though its importance to our daily lives is not always obvious, we make many choices each day based on good science. Science and technology influence the food we choose to eat; the products we purchase at the pharmacy, the way we communicate with our family and friends, the way we interact with the environment.

• Three young Kenyans honoured by the Queen

  
  1 month ago
  Trio among 60 youth from across the commonwealth who were feted for their life-changing ideas.

• Kenya wins big for innovation at continental fete

  
  1 month ago
  Kenya has won the top award for innovation at the just-concluded Africa Public Service Day (APSD) in Kigali, Rwanda.

• No more exam cheating as student develops top spy gadget

  
  2 months ago
  Boniface Mutegi, the brains behind the innovation says that the gadget will detect hidden communications such as voice calls, both ways messaging and even sear

• Moi University’s waste recycling project wins innovation contest

  
  2 months ago
  Moi University’s waste recycling project wins innovation contest

• Kenyan picked for top African engineering award

  
  3 months ago
  Kenya’s Kelvin Gacheru has been shortlisted for the Royal Academy of Engineering Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation set for Nairobi next week.

• MPs told to give Sh290 million for innovation hubs

  
  3 months ago
  Principal Secretary Sammy Itemere said the innovation hubs would offer free working space to innovators and create jobs for jobless graduates.

• Moi University on the verge of producing the next Mark Zuckerberg

  
  3 months ago
  Social Media platforms are taking Kenyans by storm

• Innovation the way to go for Kenya

  
  4 months ago
  Countries like Kenya facing massive youth unemployment and general poverty in the population for a number of reasons have an opportunity to change course thanks to fast changing technologies which are becoming available and cheaper

• Why bosses tend to crush good ideas

  
  5 months ago
  You have most likely heard the plea from on high at your company: we want more innovation from everyone at every level.

• Konza boss John Tanui takes ICT innovation hub model to rural Kenya

  
  5 months ago
  His love for technology and belief in what it can do for the country has seen him rise to head the ambitious Konza Technopolis project.

• Why innovation in Kenya ‘died’ in 1985

  5 months ago
  According to the World Intellectual Property Organisation, 32 years ago Kenya held more patents than the global economic giant China. Dr XN Iraki writes on where the country went wrong

• Sh3 billion set aside to advance research in 2016/17 Financial Year

  
  5 months ago
  The idea was for the cash to reach two per cent of the GDP or Sh67 billion. “The ideas is supposed to mobilise funds from the government and development partners and put together into a kitty for research,” he said.

• Apply now for Postharvest Technologies and Innovations Challenge

  
  6 months ago
  The organizers of the inaugural All Africa Postharvest Technologies and Innovations Challenge, 2017 have announced that the deadline for receipt of entries has been extended to February 24, 2017 to allow researchers and innovators more time to participate.

• Embrace innovation, Manu Chandaria tells girls

  
  6 months ago
  Businessman Manu Chandaria has challenged girls to think critically and embrace innovation in order to solve poverty and unemployment.

• Want motorised cart? Talk to this Standard Two drop-out

  
  6 months ago
  Alex Ukhevi drives his motor cart, which he made in 2001 despite droping out of school.

• Partnering on e-learning good for Africa

  
  8 months ago
  At least 92 per cent of government decision-makers in the field of education across Africa believe e-learning is important in improving education while 57 per cent believe their governments could do better by implementing e-learning initiatives to bridge the digital divide.

• Students’ fish pond slab innovation to save farmers costs

  
  9 months ago
  A group of three students from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology have a solution that will help you actualise your dream of starting a fish farm.