To catalyze the Kenyan tech community’s growth.

overview...

iHub - Nairobi's Innovation Hub for the technology community is an open space for the technologists, investors, tech companies and hackers in the area. This space is a tech community facility with a focus on young entrepreneurs, web and mobile phone programmers, designers and researchers.

It is part open community workspace (co-working), part vector for investors and VCs and part incubator. We also have a number of initiatives designed to build an ecosystem around the Kenyan tech entrepreneur: iHub Research, iHub Consulting, iHub Supercomputing Cluster, and the iHub User Experience (UX) Lab. We’re trying to create the place where seeds are planted and are easily found by the people with money to help them grow.

It is a paradigm shift towards the areas where technology approaches a barrier, and new technologies emerge to cross it. This is achieved through the idea of Open Innovation, which is the process of combining internal and external ideas as well as internal and external paths to market to advance the development of new technologies.

The space was made possible by funding to Ushahidi by the Omidyar Network and Hivos.

iHub Partners

• Intel
• http://www.intel.com

• Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live.

• Omidyar
• http://www.omidyar.com

• Omidyar is a philanthropic investment firm. We create opportunity for people to improve their lives by investing in market-based efforts that catalyze economic and social change

• Google
• http://www.google.com/about/

• Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

• Nation Media
• http://www.nation.co.ke

• The Nation Media Group (NMG) founded by His Highness the Aga Khan in 1959 has become the largest independent media house in East and Central Africa. It has been quoted on the Nairobi Stock Exchange since the early 1970s.

• Samsung
• http://samsung.com/africa_en/

• Samsung has been dedicated to making a better world through diverse businesses that today span advanced technology, semiconductors, skyscraper and plant construction, petrochemicals, fashion, medicine, finance, hotels, and more.

• Hivos
• http://www.hivos.org/about-hivos

• Hivos is an international development organisation guided by humanist values. Together with local civil society organisations in developing countries, Hivos wants to contribute to a free, fair and sustainable world.