Technology – my blog posts on tech-related topics
On January 17th, 2019, we kicked off the inaugural event for Kaleidoscope Africa, at Nailab in Nairobi with a catchy topic: Launch to Scale: How Successful Startups Scale into Global Enterprises. Only two days after the horrendous terror attack on Dusit D2 here in Nairobi, we had to make some tough decisions: People were still…
Upon getting elected, President Uhuru Kenyatta promised to bring “digital government” to Kenya. A key ambition is to bring government service delivery online, eliminating paper trails and endless queuing. The bigger vision is to use modern technology wherever possible to improve efficiency and expediency in all branches of the public sector. The Immigration Department, while…
Having relocated from Nairobi to Lagos in January 2013, I have settled down, and gotten more or less used to living here. Apartment, car, driver, etc., are already in place, and I dare commend my own exploration work on the wining and dining scene. Getting to terms with the almost exclusively cash-based economy is a challenge,…
Konza Technology City – Africa’s “Silicon Savannah” Konza Technology City, dubbed “Africa’s Silicon Savannah”, some 60km from Nairobi, is one of the most publicized elements of Kenya’s Vision 2030. The US $10bn project aims to create a world-class technology park on roughly 2,000 hectares of land. Connected to Nairobi (60km) and to Jomo Kenyatta International…
Breakneck competition between Kenya’s mobile operators Whenever a text message pops in these days, I pray it is not more spam from the operator. Too often, it is. Safaricom and Zain seem to have gone crazy with their sms advertizing, and there is no way to stop them! I have no idea what Yu and…
M-pesa – disrupting how people pay! Until recently, cutting-edge technology was not something most people would associate with Kenya. M-pesa has changed that! It’s already been three years since Safaricom, the leading mobile operator in Kenya, launched its m-pesa service. The competitors have since followed suit, and today, virtually every Kenyan has a mobile wallet…
Bauck.com has now been re-born as a WordPress blog! It all started back in 1998, when my professor Espen Andersen at the Norwegian School of Management encouraged his students to publish their assignements on a web site. At the time I had a very simple 1-pager at one of those free services. Think it was…
