If all went according to plan, it was to take on Bangalore - the centre of India’s high-tech industry - and America’s Silicon Valley. But today, the dream of turning Kenya into a Silicon Savannah appears to have come a cropper. Major innovations, including the world-beating mobile money service M-Pesa by Safaricom and crowd-sourcing platform Ushahidi, are some of Kenya’s rich tech exports. He noted that the country may have faltered but added that the Silicon Savannah dream is not lost and “it is going to come”. “The other major challenge is the low rate of adoption of local technology by government and even private sector users.

Source: Standard Digital May 10, 2021 21:33 UTC