Nairobi

In 2019, Cindy, a Kenyan national moved to Nigeria. She shares her tech experience of the city of Lagos and her surprise at how the city is behind on technology.

Launchpad Start is a week long pre-incubation program for early-stage startups

Selected startups will spend one month in Silicon Valley

First stop, iHub Nairobi

It’s supported by The MasterCard Foundation and The Doen Foundation

A few weeks ago, Safaricom partnered with Craft Silicon to launch LittleCabs, a reincarnation of Rocket Internet’s failed effort, EasyTaxi. I reckoned that to attract enough drivers to make the platform worthwhile, they’d have to jack up prices and pass the cost on to the consumer. Now, Uber has slashed its prices by up to 35%, […]