Views of Kenya’s IT Culture
Students, startups, and corporations pioneer mobile health applications in a mobile-saturated nation.
Students fill the computer lab at Nairobi’s Strathmore University. Young Kenyans with code-writing and engineering chops are playing growing roles in providing IT infrastructure for health and other applications. Riyaz Bachani, CTO of the fast-growing Kenyan ISP Wananchi, told me: “Having grown through the system here and been exposed to the developing world, we actually see no reason why these things can’t be built—even at a better level, and a better scale—locally.”
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