There are some careers where experience trumps education, and vice versa(again, this is me still discovering after trying to apply for some contracts) Fields like engineering will value experience over education for obvious reasons but not fileds like “Computer Science” (for sure), you just need to show an online profile of what you have done [...]

The ICT Board’s deadline has come and gone. The number of people that have come to the NAILAB for assistance drafting and submitting their ideas in was beyond my expectation in every manner. There were more ladies than gents! If you know me I am definitely no chauvinist, but that was very impressive. You go [...]

User experience (UX) in Africa refers to the interaction of a person with a system including their actions and perceptions, i.e., what the person wants to do, what they actually do and their feels about using a system. There will be a talk here at NAiLAB on the 27th of July 2010(Tuesday) and the title [...]

Share Yup!  The BarCamp Nairobi 2010 is going down!  The summary of what Bar Camp is  can be read below.  We have just less than 24Hours to get the iLAB and iHUB packed with 500 hundred (you read that right!) people for two days. BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people [...]

Share This was a busy day….We had a surprise visit from Tipape & Tumaina of Pillar for Maasai Development www.maasaipillars.org We discussed the 1%CLUB in great details and even invited them to join as members. They are working on posting a project on the international website (www.onepercentclub.com) for construction of the floor of a school [...]

Ok!!!! We complain about watchies all the time…. well here is one you cant complain about. His name is James Orengo! yes, you better believe that! he gives this profession a new meaning. He was at Capital Center , then at the Junction and now he is at Bishop Magua’(The Building where the NAiLaB is [...]

Today was a busy day, the ‘fundis’ were making furniture and the whole room smelled like turpentine. The final work after that was furniture! and the tables are there to show how the ‘fundis’ were quick. From nailabkenya Ok, for the boots on the table? Excuse Tonee, he really wanted to buy them from Johnny [...]

Share You are not going to believe this! these four ladies (still in college and graduating in June) came up with a project, worked on it, raised some of the money (around2,000 Euros!) yeah, and they needed 3,500Euros…then they raised the remaining amount through 1%club. Just check out the video. Playground for change from nailab [...]

The iLAB Nairobi has been going through some virtual reconstruction over the last few weeks as we create the 3D image of what our office should be. The brief is simple. There are various great business ideas that are tech heavy or just fully technology based that are done innovating, all that is left is [...]

Down Memory Name Name calling is part of everybody’s schooling experience and anybody who tells me they didn’t do it, think again, I have a general message for them-I don’t believe you. I can almost see the smirks on the readers’ faces right now-especially the ones that went “uh huh not me.” To be able [...]