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Kenya’s IT Profile Raised With New IBM Tech Lab

Kenya’s IT Profile Raised With New IBM Tech Lab

From Standard Digital

Kenya’s profile as a technology hub is set to receive a major boost as technology giant IBM earlier this week opened its first research lab in Africa in Nairobi.

The facility, which is situated at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, is IBM’s twelfth research lab in the world and its first commercial lab.

The lab will be a center of creating IT solutions and taking them to market based on research and data on different sectors generated from around Africa.

The opening of the facility further cements the growing stature of Kenya as an ICT hub.

Through the center, the youth will have the opportunity to learn from the best minds from the world such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.

During the official opening of the laboratory at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, President Uhuru Kenyatta underscored the role of Information, Communication and Technology as a key driver to the country’s targeted economic growth prospective of 10 percent annually.

“The envisaged activities of the partnership will yield solutions and systems that will address very specific local problems through commercially viable innovations,” the president said.

“Through applied and exploratory research, people will be empowered to overcome challenges and improve their lives, while entrepreneurs involved will generate incomes and employment,” he noted.

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