Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is visiting Kenya this week on his first trip to Africa, using his time in the country to visit the iHub technology hub in Nairobi, meet with developers and partners, and explore how the country’s pioneering mobile money ecosystem is evolving.
Zuckerberg is in Kenya to see how technology innovation is changing the country, learn more about what mobile entrepreneurs are doing with the latest technology, and find out how Facebook can better support small businesses, developers and content creators across growing markets.
He landed in Kenya yesterday after visiting Lagos, Nigeria. He was particularly excited to see how mobile money and social media are driving commerce in the region and creating new opportunities for entrepreneurs and communities.
One of Zuckerberg’s first stops on the trip was iHub, an Innovation hub and hacker space started in March 2010 by TED fellow and entrepreneur, Eric Hersman. Here, he met developers and entrepreneurs:
Zuckerberg also spent some time hanging out with developers in The Community Space and marveling over the ingenuity of BRCK, an American-owned, Kenya-based start-up that built a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure.
The billionaire eating pap with fish in Africa
Smart boy, humble and leading by example. of course he would never visit Zambia with cadres running the Country. Lungu is a good person but I hate to see Zambia lose law and orderliness. There is no ways the bus stations, councils are being controlled by cadres. its a shame.
Well, we salute the drive of Zuckerberg and the impact he has continued making in the eco-system. No doubt Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and South Africa not forgetting Cameroon have let us behind many knots to cover. Zambia needs to put its acts together and exploit its army of smart young population of youths we can cultivate into versatile resources. Today we have more Zambians in Diaspora who are reading most advanced IT innovations in all domains and modules of technology. Like South Koreans did it, politicians must realize the need to give space to these experts to lead incubations and technology transfer. Small initiatives build economic evolutions and not multinationals. The biggest liability is a cadre of job seekers in policy positions even fearing experience and ideas…
Zuckerberg that is great BRAINSTORMING WITH THE NATIVES.. ENJOY THE AFRICAN FOOD. And help us refine i our technology… US YOUNG ZAMBIANS CAN LEARN A LOT FROM YOU.
Zambia cannot attract people like Zuckerberg it is a failed state with Lungu as president. Lungu is a product of corruption and everything he has done is thru crooked means. Look at the elections. They were a sham. Police behaviour, ECZ, ZNBC, and ZAF for that matter all created hell for the opposition. The playing filed was so uneven but Lungu and PF failed lamentably to win the elections. Actually UPND won these elections. I hope the concourt makes the following recommendations: 1 Nullify the elections and order a re-run.2 Disband the ECZ. 3. Remove all top leadership who have been meddling in the election especially ZAF, Police, OP ,ZNBC, Times of Zambia and the Daily Mail. The idea is to create fairness. People must been seen to succeed fairly and squarely rather than always…
@4, Keep your hallucinations and protruding ignorance to yourselves. Do you know of what another HH of Kenya cam Kalusa Odinga did? He too vainly tried to smear democracy and Kenyattha’s Presidency but left injured in ego and hatred. That is exactly the fate of you chaps past midnight 14th day of the petition. Ndipo chizakupayani chikonko 5 years of Lungu popular mandate.
Senior Citizen, grow up. How do you abuse a Lunda name? Are you senior or a semblance of senior. Keep blogging every day as you still a small boy.
resorting to dishonesty methods which sadly pearmeats the Zambian Society.
Africans we are so docile and very accepting…if this guy asks for access to anything we will give no questions.
Zuckerberg going to Kenya and Nigeria because they’re technology heavyweights but we in Zambia are nowhere to be seen or even heard because we have visionless leaders.Even tiny Rwanda is miles ahead of us in information technology.
Africa: you can do it! Yes you can!!!