The Peepoo bag - an upgrade to the flying toilet issue:

The Peepoo bag is a biodegradable bioplastic bag “that sanitise the human excreta shortly after the defecation, preventing the faeces from contaminating the immediate as well as the larger environment”. It’s clearly aimed at current users of flying toilets (~ defecate in a bag during [...]

Something tells me that this gadgetimoja will become very popular in some parts of Kenya….

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AOB: my first post from Ubuntu! Earlier this week, a colleague of mine asked me which firewall software he should use next to his Avira antivirus scanner on WinXP. I told him to try Ubuntu instead if all he does is [...]

Ok ok, while I can perfectly attribute this “seniormost” to the peculiar psyche of some folks out there, why-o-why is Githongo labeled as “runnaway bureaucrat” on the English page of “Kikuyu” @ Wikipedia?

This (quote from an article by Rebecca on the new M-Pesa online payment gateway):

Intellectual property is another challenge identified by Mulamba, where software developers who work for a company realize they can offer similar services.
“Safeguarding intellectual property is a challenge; people thrive on stealing other people’s ideas and that is why there is a high [...]

Maybe it’s just me and my way of looking for the core information on websites that goes beyond the usual marketing blabla - but could it be true that there have been various Kenyan websites coming up lately that actually do NOT have any serious content? Or at least not much more than what the [...]

source: Understanding Small Scale Providers of Sanitation Services: A Case Study of Kibera, WSP, Nairobi, Kenya.
Found this in a very nice & detailed & straight forward + honest field note on SSPSS in Kibera, published by the WSP.

Ever wondered what happens to your *waste*?

…and that’s just Dandora.
Now, since an agreement to form a great coalition gov. has been found, maybe the Deputy of the Deputy to the Deputy Vice Mheshimiwa will eventually put this on the national agenda.
In reality, those who can afford to worry about the environment just don’t care or [...]

dafür, dass unser musikalischer Botschafter Walter Lindner im ersten Jahr seines Schaffens den goldenen Käfig Nairobi gut ausgetestet hat, war das jetzt aber ein sehr, sehr positiver Bericht im Weltspiegel (mit Video).
Lindner in Mützelburgischer Art bei der Erkundung Kamukunjis Kiberas im Gespräch mit Einheimischen zu beobachten, zeigt wohl das momentan Mögliche auf.
Für seine Sicherheitsbeamten sind [...]