Introduction: This article is a brief on the essence of a Pan-African approach towards technological innovation, resilience, and the possibilities of a robust software approach in problem solving for Africa. Pan-Africanism has been hailed for years by greats like Toussaint Louverture of the Haitian revolution in the 18th century to…

On Personal Identity in Africa In the previous post, we established how central the individual is in daily interactions despite holding different credentials. One person may hold a national ID card, a driver’s license, a student’s ID card, an employee card, a club membership card and a health insurance card…

Who you are varies depending on who asks. Your name may be Juma but to your children you are a parent, an employee to your employer, a student to your university, a taxpayer and citizen to your government. Different contexts define who we are over our lifetime and how we…

Your personal ID done right. Across the world, societies are built on relationships. The binding agent of human relationships is based on trust. If the levels of trust are low, the relationships rarely hold. Where levels of trust are high, there exists strong connections between people. Interactions become more regular…

A perspective on the relevance of applying a blockchain solution. Ten years since Satoshi Nakamoto gifted the world the Bitcoin paper, more has been realized beyond the liberalization of the concept of money as a means of exchange and storage of value. Vitalik Buterin later proposed a case on how…

For some time, I have been tinkering with definitions of technical concepts to understand them personally to explore ways in which I can expand their use cases and applications. I believe that the key to mastering a technical concept is to having a somewhat localised version, a close to home…

The promise of blockchain technologies to transform how humans interact has seen the rise in adoption of blockchain and similar distributed ledger technologies. Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) enable recording of interactions between parties allowing the transfer of value on a peer-to-peer basis without the need for an intermediary. Application of…

Hyperledger is an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. It is a global collaboration, hosted by The Linux Foundation, including leaders in finance, banking, IoT, supply chain, manufacturing and technology. Hyperledger Nairobi, the official Hyperledger Community in Kenya will launch on October 6 at Strathmore University…

A simple guide to set up your environment with Hyperledger Composer and allow you to develop a blockchain business network. Hyperledger Composer is an extensive, open development toolset and framework to make developing blockchain applications easier. Our primary goal is to accelerate time to value, and make it easier to…