Mozilla Africa Mradi in collaboration with Nairobi City County Government (NCCG) has entered into a partnership to support tech startups in Nairobi County.
This is part of a new Mozilla grant-making mechanism dubbed Mozilla African Innovation Mradi, which is designed to promote innovation led by and grounded in the unique needs of users on the African continent.
The partnership is in the background of the Mozilla Africa Mradi Innovation Challenge that will be held in June 2023 in Nairobi.
Mozilla’s Africa Mradi Innovation challenge will identify and support Kenyan tech entrepreneurs/startups and tech students through an acceleration program that will provide; technical support, access to grants, and ultimately, market access for their products.
“Exploring and developing new projects, technologies, and products grounded in open innovation that produce a meaningful impact on the African internet ecosystem is at the heart of our work at Mozilla Corporation”, said Alice Munyua, Senior Director of Africa Mradi.
Mozilla Africa Mradi Innovation Week will be held on June 26th and 27th 2023 in Nairobi. The initiative is part of the Africa Mradi which aims to leverage Mozilla’s role as stewards of the open web to promote models of innovation that are grounded in the unique needs of users in the African continent.
Kenya is the regional ICT hub of East Africa, with the country being a leader in broadband connectivity, and general ICT infrastructure, and home to more than 300 tech start-ups.
Through the Innovation Challenge, Mozilla seeks to support this ecosystem to ensure that youth innovators across Kenya have access to the information and knowledge needed to establish and run profitable startups.
“ Nairobi City County Government will be working with Mozilla Africa Mradi in two key areas; in conducting a situation analysis of all our tech-start-ups and to building the capacity of tech innovators in Nairobi City County so as to ensure they have equal opportunities and platforms to showcase their innovations, are exposed to how venture capital investments work and trained on startup accelerator opportunities available to them in Africa,” said Governor Johnson Sakaja.
