PIVOT East is a startup competition and conference held annually since 2011. PIVOT East has officially opened the call for applications for its 2016 edition and will continue to accept applications until midnight EAT on 8th September 2016. Startups from across the region that meet the requirements can start applying…

PIVOT East 2016 is finally here! The organizing team is excited to officially announce the open call for applications for the PIVOT East 2016 edition. PIVOT East is Africa’s biggest startups competition and conference held annually since 2011. The competition comprises of a series of activities that will culminate in…

In the first part of this article, we covered our first trip with Women for Women International to rural Bukavu in The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This was the first phase of a project the iHub UX Lab undertook with Women for Women International to understand the mental models…

Since its inception, iHub Software & Design has been working on raising the quality of software development standards locally, not only by providing trainings but also by improving access to great software development jobs. …

This September 29th and 30th, software developers from all walks of life, technologies and biases will join together in Nairobi Kenya for what promises to be Kenya’s biggest software development event, DevCraft. What is DevCraft? DevCraft is a 2 day conference being curated by the iHub Consultancy team, with an audience of software…

James Mwai, alongside Eric Asiago, are the oldest consultants in the Software & Design team at the iHub. They have been here longer than everyone else. This includes even the full-time team. To say Mwai has made a significant contribution to the Software & Design team at the iHub would…

Jean-Paul Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher and pioneer, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist and critic. He stands alongside Richard Kuhn, Adolf Butenandt, Gerhard Domagk, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, and Le Duc Tho as a Nobel Prize winner that has rejected the award. …

Every time we have a visitor at the iHub, one thing always happens after we explain our consultancy offering; they always ask what UX is all about. The tech ecosystem is particularly good at creating lingo that anyone outside the ecosystem wouldn’t understand. When a company is sold we say…

“Data science is about telling stories with data.” — Sidney Ochieng’ (iHub Data Scientist) In October/November 2015, Ma3Route approached our Data Lab with an interesting conundrum. Their platform had achieved unprecedented and unparalleled success at providing a source of information for Kenya’s motorists. They had, in turn, become a reporting…