In early February, Nairobi hosted a key figure in the technology industry — Nokia’s President and chief executive Stephen Elop in a meet-up with software developers. Mr Elop met with over 50 developers at iHub — innovations centre that houses more than 3,000 software developers.
In the last five years, international firms such as Google, Facebook, Nokia and Blackberry have also combed Kenyan universities searching for developers able to create unique solutions for mobile phones or the Internet web.