The Kenya Association of Records Managers and Archivists (KARMA) is the premier records management organisation operating within Kenya. The organisation is a professional body and community for all those who work, and are interested in, records and

We, at The Filing Room, care about efficient management of records and documents. That care expands beyond the records you store with us. We want your whole process streamlined. We know about this stuff and thought we

The new decade brings with it fresh opportunity and a chance for a new start for many people across the globe. It is a symbolic moment where possibilities are endless and the desire for personal change is

Records management is a very important part of maintaining a healthy business. At businesses where records management is not taken seriously, the concept is often reduced to simply the filing away of records. Archiving and document storage

It has been a big year for The Filing Room. We have implemented a number of wide-reaching and exciting changes. All of which are part of our mission to build a modern, dynamic and, most importantly, African

Kenya’s capital city is of vital importance to the emerging East African powerhouse and, indeed, the world. It is home to the United Nations African offices as well as that organisation’s Environmental Programme. The UN, among other

As any business owner or resident in Nairobi will tell you, property prices are on the rise. HassConsult Limited, the property investment consulting firm, have monitored prices in Kenya’s capital for nearly two decades. Over the first

Archiving is a skill. The goal is to file all your important documents in as little space as possible whilst retaining ease of access and an intuitive organisational scheme. If you have absolutely nailed your document management

Online, our data comprises our lives. With all the shopping and interacting we do on the web, interested observers can tell where we’ve been, who we went with, what we ate there, etc. Data collection is a

The traffic in Nairobi is some of the worst in the world. However, according to online resources, Nairobi is far from the levels of congestion experienced by many cities in the US and in India. These online

If Blockchain is that thing you hear about at dinner parties and at work and you have no idea what it means but in order to not seem ignorant you smile and nod and make the right

It has now been two months since the launch of the Mara Smartphone handsets. The first ever made-in-Africa Smartphones have hit the markets and now  there are two manufacturing plants. One in Kigali, Rwanda, and another in

Many archived files hold the potential for serious financial consequences should they fall into the wrong hands. A company that fails to respect the integrity of other businesses by not securing files is destined to fail. With

At the heart of The Filing Room’s core values is a deep interest in data. The service we provide is rooted in the belief that data should be stored safely, it should be easy to access, and

So you’ve decided to digitise your paper records? Maybe, that’s because your physical documents are taking up too much space and need to be destroyed. Maybe, it's because you’ve realised that some documents are too important to

So, you’ve decided to store your records with a professional archiving company. You work for or own a fast-growing business and you simply haven’t got the resources to store sheathes and sheathes of paper documents. Many business

At The Filing Room, we archive and scan a multitude of documents every day. These documents are the ongoing evidence of thousands of contractual agreements being made between Kenyan businesses.  In many ways, an increase in archived

Companies decide to store their documents with third-party record management companies for a variety of reasons. Some make the decision because their office space is getting too cramped to store all their physical files. For others, it

Humanity’s collective memory is one of the reasons we are able to continue developing and improving as a species. A key component of this collective memory is our ability to document events that occur around us and