In his 2011 book “Civilization“, Niall Fergusson comments that news of the Indian Mutiny in 1857 took 46 days to reach London, travelling in effect at 3.8 miles an hour. By Jan 2009 when US Airways flight 1549 crash landed in the Hudson river, Jim Hanrahan’s message on Twitter communic...
Dealing with these challenges requires an understanding of the causes driving non-reporting. This study triangulated between routine data reported through DHIS2 and a cross-sectional health facility assessment survey to assess whether a lack of diagnostic capacity drove non-reporting in Kenya’s DHIS2...
Driving in Nairobi is often akin to navigating an obstacle course. Residents can now do something about it thanks to an app developed with EPFL. Credit: EPFL / Alain Herzog The roads in Nairobi are studded with potholes, ditches and other rough spots. There are no signs to warn people dri...
In Kenya, school fees were an important topic of the electoral cam- paign in the run-up to the contested Kenyan presidential election of 2002. The governing party wanted to reduce fees, while the oppositional coalition promised to abolish them. Shortly after winning the election, the new ...