August 29, 2015 04:00 am
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Kenya's iHub Creates Accelerator Program For Tech-Hardware Entrepreneurs
An anonymous reader writes: The iHub in Nairobi has long been at the epicentre of tech developments in Africa, and has been lauded by both Barack Obama and Satya Nadella in recent weeks. It currently has about 3000 software devs registered as members, but since last year has been building a makerspace for hardware entrepreneurs, too. Gearbox, as its called, it's just launched its first incubation program with the backing of Village Capital, offering $100,000 in investment opportunities for 12 entrepreneurs through a three month program. According to the organisers, it's the first of its kind on the continent.(It's certainly not the first hackerspace in Africa, though -- even in 2012, there were quite a few.)Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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