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Zindi is Africa’s largest data science competition platform, with the mission of building the data science ecosystem in Africa. Zindi hosts a community of over 23 000 data scientists across Africa dedicated to solving the world’s most pressing challenges through machine learning and AI. Data scientists come to Zindi to hone their skills, build their professional profile, find job opportunities, and to connect with fellow data scientists across Africa and beyond.

ISACA Kenya Chapter invites your institution to participate in an inter-varsity bootcamp that will be held from Monday 29th March to Tuesday 6th April 2021. The bootcamp will be a 5-day training that will cover ISACA’s Cybersecurity Fundamentals (CSX) curriculum, offer hands-on cybersecurity training and mentorship. Students will also have the opportunity to sit a mock certification exam at the end of the event. The cost of participating is Ksh 2,000/= for ISACA student members and Ksh 5,000/= for non-members.

The University of Nairobi Virtual Open Day is scheduled for 18th and 19th February 2021.
This is a critical activity of the University, which provides an opportunity for members of the

public to interact with the Faculty, sample the programmes offered and receive career guidance

through organized webinars. This is to urge you to make necessary preparations for the success of

A final year student at the School of Computing and Information, Maluki Muthusi, has
been awarded the first prize for winning in the global Huawei ICT Competition in the
network track. This is a skill-based competition involving hands-on experience in computer
networks and network security. Over 109 teams from Asia, Europe, Southern, and Eastern Africa participated in the global finals. A total of 327 students managed to get to the global finals out of the

Zaka, in partnership with Microsoft, is launching the AI Ready Academy.

This third-party webinar is the first of a 3-month series to launch a skills-driven program, which introduces higher education students to fundamentals and concepts of data science, machine learning and AI, and cloud computing.

Maluki Muthusi Maluki from School of Computing & Informatics is among the 6 finalists of the Global final round of Huawei ICT Competition.

the Competition commenced with registration and a road show in October 2019, this was followed by the National, Regional and now finally the Global Final competitions.

Thecompetition comprised of two tracks Network and Cloud.

The University of Nairobi wishes to inform all students from the Colleges Of Agriculture & Veterinary Sciences, Architecture & Engineering, Biological & Physical Sciences, Education & External Studies and ODeL Campus who qualified for the award of various degrees and diplomas at the end of last academic year (2019/2020) and members of the public, that the 63rd Graduation Ceremony will be held VIRTUALLY on Friday, September 25, 2020, commencing at 8.00 a.m. at the Great Court.

Gladys Maina wasn’t always going to be a STEM professional. She initially pursued a medical laboratory certificate but realized rather quickly that a career in medic was not for her. She quit and travelled 250Kms to Nairobi where she was hired as a cybercafé assistant and her passion for technology started.

Game of Learners is a five-week virtual hackathon developed by the Microsoft Africa Development Center (ADC) to be executed by Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors.

Two of School of Computing and Informatics students, Sharon Kerubo (Second Year) and Easter Kerubo (Third Year) are among other teams of students taking part in this Episode Hackathon

The program is aimed to establish a fun and experiential learning competition for undergraduate students.

Crowdsource, also known as Google Crowdsource, is a crowdsourcing platform developed by Google intended to improve a host of Google services through the user-facing training of different algorithms. Crowdsource was released for Android on the Google Play store on August 29, 2016, and is also available on the web.

The students downloaded the app and started making contributions which was an amazing thing.