Frequently Asked Questions published by Kenya Revenue Authority — Originally published by KRA here on Jan 2021 1. What is Digital Service Tax (DST)? Digital Service Tax (DST) is payable on income derived or accrued in Kenya from services offered through a digital marketplace. 2. What is a Digital Market Place? A digital marketplace is a platform that enables direct…

Important decisions about your life are being made by artificial intelligence — and the algorithms could be biased against you. — Some of the decisions algorithms make about our lives are fairly benign, such as those irresistible ‘Suggestions for you’ on Netflix. But it gets far murkier when artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are used by businesses and governments for decision-making that affects our lives without us ever knowing about…

A university student from Kenya recently reached out to me on e-mail to ask for advice on his final year project so I’ve decided to publish the response incase it can help others; Hi Bryan, Thanks for reaching out. Specifically on your computer science project for final year, I doubt…

Technology notes on improvements to StarHealth’s design and scalability — In 2014, Dodgy Doctors began in Kenya as an online and SMS tool for citizens to check if a doctor they were seeing was for real or a quack masquerading as a physician. In October 2015, a Kenyan claiming to be a gynaecologist was arrested in Nairobi for drugging and…

… and how you can run your own too. — We sat around the office trying to come up with the best way to give out a drone to one lucky community member. Print numbers? Business cards? Lucky seat? A question? Most of the ideas we came up with were either time consuming or had loop-holes. …

Getting Citizens to the Polling Booth Informed and Ready — This is a lightning talk I gave at Media Party Africa. Check out the #MediaPartyAfrica tweets here. And awesome recap by Kainaz Amaria here. The 2007-2008 Kenyan crisis was a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis that erupted after incumbent President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner of the presidential election…

“Never stop learning.” Something we all know we’re supposed to be doing.. but are we really? We get comfortable with what we are good at and we try to build on that. Don’t get me wrong, that is important but to really grow, we need to get uncomfortable. The one…

He’s not from the North Pole but from right here in Nairobi; Agape Hope Children Centre and the amazing work being done by Oliver and Margaret. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days in a year. Finding Agape Hope Children Centre Pronounced “a(pple)-ga(p)-pe(ncil)”. Like many cities around the world, in Nairobi, there…

A public statement from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. Why? No one knows. Ongoings at the UN are complicated. Sometimes States will align with others for better trade deals. Sometimes to piss off the other side. …