Kenya Engineer

  The Kenya ICT Board announced the Digital Villages (Pasha) Loans Calls for Applications on 24th January. The Loan is a revolving fund for those who qualify and the applicants must be in their or in a constituency where the Pasha Centre or Digital Village is much needed.   Applicants have 30 days  from 24th January...

  PCCW Global Limited, a subsidiary of Hong Kong’s premier telecommunications provider, PCCW Limited, and Kenya Data Networks (KDN), Kenya (Kenya reviews)’s leading full service data communications carrier, have successfully conducted the first High (High reviews)-Definition Video Conferencing (HDVC) connecting the United States, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Kenya.         The link-up is...

Nairobi’s status as a conference and business centre hub got a major boost with the official opening of the Sankara Hotel owned by The Grenadier Group in Westlands by Prime Minister Raila Odinga. The Prime Minister was accompanied by Grenadier Group Chairman, Mr Baloo Patel, the hotel chairman Mr Charles Njonjo, Tourism Minister  Najib Balala and Mr Rohan Patel,...

East African Portland Cement Company in November 2010 appointed Mr Kephar Tunde as its new managing director replacing Mr John Nyambok who quit in July. Mr Tunde had been acting as MD since Mr Nyambok’s departure and was previously the general manager in charge of finance.   EAPCC has been feeling the weight of increased competition...

  Delft University of Technology researcher Eleonora Westebring-van der Putten has developed a device aimed at training surgeons to perform keyhole surgery. An exploratory operation – known as a laparoscopy when carried out in the abdominal cavity – is generally less invasive for the patient.   However, problems with keyhole surgery partly arise because it is...

  When former US President George W Bush visited Tanzania in  February 2008 he signed with Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete a $ million 698 five year grant Agreement to stimulate economic growth through targeted investments in the transportation, water and energy sectors.   The grant was channeled through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) an innovative and...

Kenya is seeking sites at the coast for  the construction of a nuclear power plant, Energy Minister  Kiraitu Murungi said in a government notice. The government has formed a committee to help identify the sites and ensure that all the terms and conditions of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) necessary for the approval of a nuclear power plant...

The Kenya National Highway Authority (KeNHA) has awarded a Chinese contractor Jianxi Zhongnei Engineering Construction  Company a  Sh13 billion contract to construct  the 121 kilometre Marsabit-Turbi road.   The road, financed jointly by the government and the African Development Bank is part of the Isiolo-Motyale road that will ultimately connect Kenya to Ethiopia.   The  road...

  ‘Small-cell technology, as we go through this data tornado, is absolutely essential.’   Future mobile phone networks are set to use intelligent miniature base stations to manage vast amounts of data transfer without central planning. Phone companies and academics are researching how to cope with the huge demands on radio bandwidth that will come with the next generation...

  A new formula has been devised to help wind farm owners generate energy more cost efficiently. Charles Meneveau, a Johns Hopkins University (JHU) fluid mechanics and turbulence expert, working with a colleague in Belgium, has devised the new precept through which the optimal spacing for a large array of turbines can be obtained. ‘I believe our results are...