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Government partners with Microsoft to launch roadmap for Agricultural digital transformation

Grace MathekaJune 11, 2021

The Government of Kenya, through the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries recently hosted a national dialogue with stakeholders in partnership with ...

4 USIU-Africa students emerge top in 2021 Microsoft’s annual global technology competition

Grace MathekaMay 29, 2021

A team of four Kenyan university students are the winners of the 2021 Microsoft's Imagine Cup, an annual global student technology challenge. The four students,...

Huawei urges private sector to strengthen trust in technology

Grace MathekaMay 14, 2021

The St. Gallen Symposium, an annual gathering of leaders from across the globe, marked its 50th anniversary this year. 1,000 participants took part in the three...

Microsoft Teams launches additional features to support educators and learners

Staff WriterMay 6, 2021

Microsoft has added several new features to Teams designed to support educators and students in creating a holistic learning environment for the next chapter of...

There is a need for continuous mentorship of students to enable them excel in their fields of study

Samson NderiApril 22, 2021

In March this year, the Microsoft’s Africa Development Centre (ADC) announced the kick-off of Season 2 of its Game of Learners (GOL) program. GOL is an initiat...

Over 1,000 university students in Africa participate in data science competition

Grace MathekaApril 9, 2021

UmojaHack Africa 2021 brought more than 1,000 students from 126 universities across Africa to compete on Zindi, in a virtual machine learning hackathon on the w...

Microsoft launches Season 2 of the Game of Learners hackathon

Samson NderiApril 1, 2021

Microsoft has launched Season 2 of the Game of Learners (GOL) program. It is an initiative aimed at enhancing digital and coding skills among university student...

Microsoft helps millions across the world gain digital skills

Grace MathekaMarch 31, 2021

Microsoft recently announced it has helped over 30 million people in 249 countries and territories gain access to digital skills. This number exceeds its initia...

Microsoft unveils findings from its first-annual Work Trend Index

Grace MathekaMarch 27, 2021

Microsoft has announced the findings from its first-annual Work Trend report titled, The Next Great Disruption is Hybrid Work – Are We Ready? The report uncover...

Wentors partners with Microsoft to offer digital training and mentorship to women

Grace MathekaMarch 25, 2021

Wentors, a women’s mentorship organisation, and Microsoft, have committed to mentor and train 1,000 women working in the technology industry, as a way of promot...

3 Kenyan teams among those selected by Microsoft to participate in this year’s Imagine Cup World semi-finals

Grace MathekaMarch 23, 2021

Microsoft’s annual global student technology competition, Imagine Cup, has revealed the selected entries to compete at the World semi-finals taking place on 24 ...

Cyber Basics for Small Businesses; a free webinar for SMEs slated for April 14

Grace MathekaMarch 19, 2021

The Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) in partnership with The Cyber Readiness Institute (CRI), is launching a three-week webinar series. The series, dubbed Cyber Basi...

Women in Kenya to benefit from Microsoft digital training

Grace MathekaMarch 9, 2021

Microsoft has partnered with Tech4Dev, a social initiative, to train girls and women across Africa in coding and technology skills. The partnership aims to brid...

Microsoft unveils new digital innovations at Microsoft Ignite 2021

Grace MathekaMarch 4, 2021

Microsoft has announced new digital innovations during the Microsoft Ignite 2021, the company's flagship virtual enterprise conference. The conference was presi...

50,000 entrepreneurs to acquire digital skills in a project by Stanbic & Microsoft

Grace MathekaFebruary 16, 2021

The Government of Kenya, through the Ministry of Industrialization, Trade and Enterprise Development is preparing to impart digital skills to over 50,000 entrep...

Microsoft Viva platform launched to boost productivity in the workplace

Grace MathekaFebruary 12, 2021

Microsoft has announced an employee experience platform that enhances employee engagement, learning, wellbeing and knowledge discovery, directly into the flow o...

Farmer’s Choice embraces new technology to enhance productivity

Grace MathekaDecember 23, 2020

Farmer’s Choice has announced its intention to increase use of advanced technologies within its existing agriculture ecosystem. The technology will enhance prod...

Microsoft & AGRA partner to co-create technology solutions in agriculture

Staff WriterSeptember 21, 2020

Microsoft and the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to co-create technology solutions in agricult...

Over 2,300 Kenyan students set to acquire Microsoft certification

Samson NderiSeptember 3, 2020

Over 2,300 Kenyan students will receive Microsoft training and certification by the end of this month. This is in an effort aimed at closing the ever-present sk...

Cloud productivity solutions wins at the 2020 Microsoft Inspire awards

Samson NderiAugust 5, 2020

Cloud Productivity Solutions (CPS), a Kenyan IT firm has emerged as one of the winners at the 2020 Microsoft Inspire awards. The awards recognize partners demon...

RemD wins the Microsoft Game of Learners hackathon

Staff WriterJuly 24, 2020

Mobile Based Medical App RemD has emerged as the winner in the Microsoft Game of Learners (GOL) hackathon that was hosted recently. The hackathon was aimed as p...

Organisations need to think critically about digital skills for the new world order

Staff WriterJuly 10, 2020

More than ever before, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the place of technology and elevated the need for employees to have digital skills to thrive in thi...

Microsoft launches Android antivirus app

Samson NderiJune 24, 2020

Microsoft has launched a preview version of its antivirus. It will include protection against phishing and go a step further than Google’s built-in malware prot...

Microsoft launches Game of Learners hackathon for university students in Kenya

Samson NderiJune 16, 2020

Microsoft has launched the Game of Learners (GOL) programme in the form of a hackathon aimed at spurring innovation among university students across Kenya. T...

JKUAT students win Ksh. 1.6 million in the Microsoft Imagine Cup competition

Staff WriterMay 21, 2020

Two students, Michael Mwaisakenyi and Kenneth Gichira, from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) are the regional winners of the 18th ...

Microsoft to support online learning through Teams

Samson NderiApril 21, 2020

Microsoft has announced that it has integrated Teams, which is a unified collaboration and communication platform to a number of learning management systems (LM...

Microsoft to suspend optional non security Windows updates

Samson NderiMarch 25, 2020

With people around the world working from home courtesy of the Corona Virus, Microsoft has announced that it is pausing all optional non-security releases for s...

Microsoft and Ministry of Agriculture partner to help farmers solve challenges

Samson NderiMarch 16, 2020

Microsoft and the Ministry of Agriculture have partnered in a bid to help farmers solve key challenges affecting them. This is part of Microsoft’s ongoing inves...

Microsoft has offered a remote working solution for free with the prevalence of COVID-19

Samson NderiMarch 11, 2020

With the rapid spread of COVID-19, employers around the world including Google have resorted to asking their employees to work from home so as to avoid infectio...

Microsoft launches Global Social Entrepreneurship programme to empower startups

Samson NderiMarch 3, 2020

Microsoft through its Microsoft for Start-ups initiative, has launched the Global Social Entrepreneurship programme at a plenary session of the Sankalp Africa ...

Banks need to use technology to drive customer growth according to Microsoft

Samson NderiFebruary 5, 2020

During the just concluded 2nd Annual Africa Banking & Finance Innovation Summit that was held in Nairobi. Microsoft which was one of the sponsors of the eve...

Kendi Ntwiga–Nderitu is the new Microsoft Kenya Country Manager

Staff WriterJanuary 7, 2020

Microsoft has announced the appointment of Kendi Ntwiga – Nderitu as the new Country Manager for its operations in Kenya. She replaces the previous country lead...

Microsoft partners with Harvard Business Review to host roundtable for CFOs

Staff WriterNovember 27, 2019

Microsoft in partnership with Harvard Business Review hosted a roundtable that targeted Chief Financial Officers (CFO) and Chief Operations Officers (COO) worki...

Liquid Telecom partners with Microsoft to launch the new Azure Peering Service in Africa

Staff WriterNovember 27, 2019

Liquid Telecom is working with Microsoft to launch new enterprise cloud services designed to improve business collaboration, increase productivity and drive bus...

Liquid Telecom in partnership with Microsoft to launch new enterprise cloud services

Staff WriterNovember 15, 2019

Liquid Telecom, is working with Microsoft to launch new enterprise cloud services that are designed to improve business collaboration, increase productivity and...

Microsoft partners with SheHacks in a Hackathon to support women in cyber security

Staff WriterOctober 18, 2019

SheHacks is a community of women in cybersecurity from various backgrounds and counties across Kenya. This community brings together learners and experts who sh...

Microsoft announces winners in their LEAP Engineering Acceleration Program

Staff WriterJuly 16, 2019

Microsoft has announced winners for its Leap Hackathon for women in technology as part of the LEAP Engineering Acceleration Program. The event aimed to increase...

Stanbic Bank to offer short term loans to SMEs via M-Jeki

Staff WriterMay 29, 2019

Stanbic Bank Kenya has announced a new initiative that will offer short term loans to distributors and suppliers. This new initiative was launched after the ...

Microsoft and ALN Academy push for adoption of Artificial Intelligence in the Finance Industry

Staff WriterMay 28, 2019

Microsoft and the African Legal Network (ALN) Academy have called on the financial services sector to build artificial intelligence (AI) capacity. This will ens...

Mest Africa Summit 2019 to take place in Nairobi in partnership with Microsoft

Staff WriterApril 19, 2019

MEST Africa has officially announced its fourth annual MEST Africa Summit, in partnership with Microsoft. The 3-day event will take place in Nairobi, Kenya from...

Microsoft launches Artificial Intelligence for Africa White Paper

Staff WriterApril 18, 2019

Microsoft in partnership with Strathmore University yesterday launched “Artificial Intelligence for good” event series. The event which took place at the Micros...

Microsoft opens two data centres in Africa

Staff WriterMarch 8, 2019

Microsoft has announced that it has opened the first data centres in Africa, with the general availability of their cloud service Azure. The new data centres ar...