By David Talbot
March/April 2012

Views of Kenya’s IT Culture

Students, startups, and corporations pioneer mobile health applications in a mobile-saturated nation.

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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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