Category Archives for Inspiration

At SXSW, when dots connect, they make a full circle!

Here’s a little thing you didn’t know about me: I never owned a laptop till my third year of University. A lot of people, like you, are probably wondering how I managed. In 2010, I heard about a conference called … Continue reading

12. March 2013 by mtoto wa jirani
Categories: Inspiration | 8 comments

Thoughts on Dojo Hubs

About a year ago, a couple of colleagues and I went to Nsambya in Kampala to train a community of Congolese refugees on the value of social media and how they could use it to meet their goals. We did … Continue reading

03. February 2013 by mtoto wa jirani
Categories: Education, Idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Musings, Projects | Leave a comment

Goal Setting: A Manual for East African Techies

Last week I had the opportunity to interview Vint Cerf, the “father of the Internet”, at the iHub Synergistic Communities event. Naturally, my questions we’re targeted at Google’s “devotion” to the Internets’ roots as built into the TCP/IP protocol (I … Continue reading

04. October 2011 by mtoto wa jirani
Categories: Innovation, Inspiration, Musings, Technology | 5 comments

Why you should edit your Country’s Wikipedia page

It has nothing to do with Wikipedia itself! Wikipedia is a great resource contributed by thousands of people who seem to understand the value of consolidating knowledge and sharing it with the world. This is the popular theory. I have … Continue reading

10. February 2011 by mtoto wa jirani
Categories: Inspiration, Musings | 5 comments