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Ability: We are Back

We are excited to be back after a long silence since we started the Ability Project in 2018. As you will recall, last year, we worked with volunteers to map out Nairobi’s Central Business District, from University way to Haile Selassie Avenue and from Uhuru Highway to Tom Mboya Street. The idea behind the mapping…

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Our Website Reloaded (Again)

Today, we relaunch (again!) our new website. This would be the fourth iteration of our website since we started out in September 2012. What’s more, is that it is the second iteration since we rebranded in June 2018. This iteration was provoked by a recent hacking attack on our online properties and as we strengthened…

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We welcome Executive Order on Procurement

The Open Institute welcomes the news that President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday signed an executive order requiring all government entities and public owned institutions to publish details of tenders and awards from July 1, this year. We laud this action as a significant step in the fight against corruption. Public procurement is the number one risk of corruption…

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We have Rebranded!

Today, marks a new chapter in our lives. We have rebranded. For the past six years, we have come a long way – from once being horribly incubated by another organisation, to starting from scratch in a small room above a bar in Nairobi West to being a stable, growing inclusive organisation that works towards…

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Introducing The Ability Project

Do me a favour: think back to earlier this morning when you were getting yourself showered and dressed. Perhaps like me, you enjoy catching up with the news on in the background, or your favourite Soundcloud playlist as you get your day started. You did those regular things like shave,  do your hair, fix your…

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Announcing the Kaya Community Lab

The team at the Open Institute is pleased to announce the launch of the Kaya Community Lab. This initiative brings together various stakeholders in communities and/or organisations to address specific, identified and complex problems that do not necessarily have straightforward solutions. The Kaya Community Labs intends to take a Social Labs approach whereby solutions are prototyped, tested…

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