Bloggers Association of Kenya extends submissions for the 2014 Kenyan Blog Awards.

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Awards CoverPress Release:The Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) has today announced the extension of the submission phase for the 2014 BAKE Kenyan Blog Awards. The submissions were to end on February 10th but will instead end on February 17th 2014. This is in response to public demand and an overwhelming number of submissions made in the last few days.

This will result in the judging phase being altered as well, but other key dates will remain the same. Here is the new timeline for the 2014 BAKE Kenyan Blog Awards.

 

1. Submissions

From January 10th 2014 to February 17th 2014, we will be accepting submissions in the competition’s 17 categories.

 

2. Judges Choose the Best 5

From February 19th 2014 to February 28th 2014 judges comprised of bloggers and media experts will decide on the 5 blogs that advance to the next round in all 17 categories. These are the blogs that will be in the running to win a BAKE Kenyan Blog Award.

 

3. Online voting

The ballot box will be opened on March 1st 2014 and it will close on April 30th 2014. We will be limiting votes to one time per category.

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Sam Wakoba
Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Sam Wakoba is a pan-African technology journalist, author, entrepreneur, technology business mentor, judge, educationalist, and a sought-after speaker and panelist across Africa’s innovation ecosystem. He is the convenor of the popular monthly #TechNight evening event and the #StartupEast Awards and Conference, platforms that bring together startup founders, developers, entrepreneurs, investors, content creators, and tech professionals from across the continent. For more than 16 years, Sam has reported on and analysed Africa’s technology landscape, covering some of the continent’s most impactful, and at times controversial policies, programs, investors, co-founders, startups, and corporations. His work is known for its independence, depth, and fairness, with a singular goal of helping build and strengthen Africa’s nascent technology ecosystem. Beyond journalism, Sam is a business analyst and consultant, working with brands, universities, corporates, SMEs, and startups across East Africa, as well as international companies entering the East African market or scaling across Africa. In his free time, he volunteers as a consulting editor and fintech analyst at Business Tech Kenya, a business, technology, and data firm that publishes reports, reviews, and insights on business and technology trends in Kenya. He also teaches entrepreneurship at Moran Technology & Management Institute (Moran Tech). Follow him on X: @SamWakoba