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3D printing set to spur engineering and manufacturing

3dprintBusiness Daily By Isabella Mukumu

Thursday July 4, 2013

Imagine being able to create a three-dimensional solid object at the click of a mouse. Imagine being able to produce replicas of the same object many times over, without having to break a sweat carving it out to the desired shape.

This is the new precision of additive manufacturing, better known to James Kinongu — a pipe joint manufacturer — as 3D (three dimension) printing. It allows objects to be created from the bottom-up by adding material one cross-sectional layer at a time.

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Deloitte to audit social media event

safaricomtwitterDAILY NATION By NATION REPORTER

Wednesday July 3, 2013

OLX Social Media Awards have partnered with Deloitte for the auditing of nominations whose entries closed on Tuesday.

The financial services advisory firm is to provide quality assurance in the SOMA voting exercise which has so far attracted thousands of entries.

Judges have a fortnight to select winners from the nominees who had 26 days to enter the competition.

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Technology failed, Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Chairman Ahmed Isaack Hassan says

voterTHE STANDARD By Antony Gitonga

Thursay June 27, 2013

Kenya: The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission ( IEBC) Chairman Ahmed Isaack Hassan has now admitted that the last General Election faced “serious technology failures”.

about four months after the hotly contested election, Mr Hassan said it faced serious challenges in the voter verification devices that failed on the Election Day. This forced IEBC to use printouts of voter registration.

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Officials taught how to build Knowledge Society

afictaDaily Nation By PAULINE KAIRU

Monday, July 1  2013

On Friday, July 5, more than 150 mid-level to senior government officials from eight African countries, including Kenya, will be honoured for having successfully completed Africa’s first “leadership in ICT” training aimed at creating knowledge societies.

A knowledge society, as defined by Unesco, is one that “creates, shares, and uses knowledge for the prosperity and well-being of its people.” The concept is pegged on the reality that knowledge informs development.

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Kenya skips the African Internet Summit – again

walubengoDaily Nation By John Walubengo

Tuesday June 25, 2013

Kenya is without doubt one of the most democratic countries in Africa.

Other than Ghana, Zambia and perhaps South Africa one would barely find any other country in Africa that has entertained real competitive politics for over twenty years. By extension, the Kenyan people eat, sleep and drink politics – but only at a local level.

At an international level, Kenya has not found nor defined its strategy where it matters most. In the recently concluded African Internet Summit 2013 in Lusaka Zambia, Kenya's absence was conspicuous.

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