Known by some as the Silicon Savannah, Nairobi is becoming an increasingly important player in the international tech scene. Giokos meets with Irene Kiwia, co-founder of Adanian Labs, who explains what her company does, \u201cWe are a technology company, a pan-African technology company, and what founded us was our mission to activate the tech revolution on the continent by making sure that Africans are active participants in the fourth industrial revolution. We invest in tech startups.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kiwia says that Africa has a strong advantage because of the number of talented young people on the continent, \u201cThe good thing about Africa, Kenya, and sub-Saharan Africa is that it\u2019s a young continent.\u201d She continues, \u201cTechnology allows us to leapfrog things in a way that we are not able to do before. If we look at the African history, we missed the industrial revolution. We\u2019ve missed a couple of things, but for the first time ever, we have a technology revolution, where we are able to create impact and change the status quo of this continent. And the young people are the people who are going to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Looking to the future, Kiwia talks about the need to digitise small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), \u201cKenya is becoming a hub of tech for the continent. The future is absolutely exciting, we are building the largest tech company on this continent. And by largest, I mean in terms of the impact that we will create across sectors. But also, the fact that our aim is to digitise the SME eco-systems and build a connected Africa, a borderless Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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