Kenyan Banks to clear inter-bank checks in 15 minutes

Posted on Monday, April 11th, 2011

[This article is a stub. Final version coming up before end of day]
Introducing… Check Truncation.
Kenyan check clearing procedure takes upto 4 days for inter-bank checks to clear.
From 2009, there has been an initiative to cut [...]

The need for an ubiquitous, agnostic parallel Internet

Posted on Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

There was a very thought-provoking discussion on Twitter today about the need to have a network with the following capabilities, in Kenya:

Independent – Not owned by an individual or corporate.
Ever-on. Means it cannot be turned [...]