THELOGICALINDIAN - Nairobibased agenda bill wallet provider Bitsoko will badly account from the new addition and accord amplitude appear by the New Yorkbased accouterments behemothic IBM at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit cohosted by US President Barack Obama on his aboriginal anytime appointment to Kenya as the President
The IBM Innovation Space will appear up @ iHub – the affection of Nairobi’s tech association – and will accessible from August 2015.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded agenda bill start-up Bitsoko is accepted to abound decidedly column the barrage of this addition platform. Bitsoko has been alive out of the iHub for the accomplished several months and has been appliance IBM’s Bluemix, Platform-as-a-service to advance a adaptable wallet appliance based on the blockchain technology.
Allam Juma, Co-founder and Chief Developer at Bitsoko said,
“There is a absolute fizz in Kenya and across Africa right now in the ambitious association as technology and added admission to all-around markets is affective us into a new era of African innovation. As a Kenyan administrator with all-around ambitions, actuality able to collaborate with a aggregation like IBM and altercate ideas, extend our able arrangement and admission cutting-edge technologies is a potentially game-changing opportunity.”
Nick Nesbitt, Country General Manager, IBM East Africa commented that, “Africa has millions of entrepreneurs who are experts in their own markets and who are now attractive to technology to differentiate and attempt on the all-around stage. With the IBM Innovation Space @ iHub, we are extending our attendance appropriate into the affection of the bounded abstruse association so that entrepreneurs and start-ups accept admission to the accoutrement and ability to accomplish in this agitative new era of Africa’s economic development.”
The agenda currency-based aggregation afresh accustomed $100,000 in Phase 1 of the Global Challenges Exploration organized by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
