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About Nekesa Were

I take responsibility for the success of my teams, projects, and organisations. I provide leadership across Africa’s technology innovation ecosystem. I work in different sectors and relish new challenges.

Here’s to 2024

May our homes wrap us in comfort.  May the love we give return to warm our hearts.  May we persist in loving deeply, letting our hearts overflow.    May our friendships stay genuine, anchoring us through life's waves.  May our connections endure, fortified with resilience.  May we uncover a sense of belonging, shielding us from [...]

By |2023-12-19T15:44:00+03:00December 19th, 2023|2024|0 Comments

Celebrating One Year at Medic: Embracing Purpose and Impactful Work.

I joined Medic in December of 2022 after a fulfilling two years supporting innovation hubs across the African continent. I watched the work that Medic was doing at the height of the covid pandemic and when the opportunity arose, I knew I had to grab it. As I reflect on my first year, I’m struck [...]

By |2023-12-14T15:53:16+03:00December 14th, 2023|Community Health|0 Comments

Public Sector Innovation Summit at the Kenya Innovation Week 2023.

I'm excited to be leading the Public Sector Innovation Summit at the Kenya Innovation Week for the second year running. This year, I am bringing together public and private sector actors who have successfully collaborated to innovate in the public sector. My summit will explore critical elements of national deployments, the role of behavioural science [...]

By |2023-11-27T15:55:15+03:00November 26th, 2023|government, innovation in Africa, tech|0 Comments

Rugby Is Home.

I was probably about 9 or 10 years old the first time I watched rugby. It wasn't a match. I was watching my brothers training at Strathmore School where they were for high school. My mother would pick me up from Lavington Primary School. We’d drive to Strathmore and wait in the parking lot for [...]

By |2023-04-21T13:09:53+03:00April 21st, 2023|Sports|0 Comments

BUILDING AN ARMY OF AFRICAN HUBS

AfriLabs has come a long way. We have grown from five member hubs, annual gatherings in Berlin and one staff member, to four hundred hubs as at December 2022, five successful annual gatherings held in Africa and close to 40 team members. We have also grown from mostly organic connections to intentional, structured upskilling programs, [...]

By |2022-12-16T10:50:35+03:00December 16th, 2022|AfriLabs|9 Comments

Partnering with Africa in the Digital Age.

Africa presents big opportunities for everyone willing to put in the work, time and money so it is no surprise that over the last couple of years there have been increased programs connecting Africa’s innovators to innovators in other ecosystems. Corporations like Microsoft, with its Africa Developer Centres in Nairobi and Lagos as well as [...]

By |2022-05-25T12:53:24+03:00May 25th, 2022|innovation in Africa|0 Comments

AFRILABS: Moving Forward With Purpose

Image:AfriLabs This article was originally published in Kubatana, a new annual collection of African innovation stories from AfriLabs 2021 has been an exciting year for AfriLabs. What better way to celebrate our 10 year anniversary than to reflect on the work we have done over the years and to map an exciting path for our [...]

By |2022-03-07T14:30:52+03:00March 7th, 2022|AfriLabs, hubs in Africa, innovation in Africa|0 Comments

Protecting Innovators

Innovators are often driven by a passion to impact their societies and to earn a living by creating relevant products. Their products make it easier for us to learn, to access more affordable health care, to access food, to access government services and so on. These innovations are precious. A key feature of mature innovation [...]

By |2021-01-11T10:44:40+03:00January 11th, 2021|hubs in Africa, innovation in Africa|4 Comments

Deep Tech In Africa

Deep technology has been defined as technology that is based on tangible engineering innovation or scientific advances and discoveries. Deep Tech is often set apart by its profound enabling power, the differentiation it can create, and its potential to catalyse change. Africa has had great success over the last 20 years. The last 10, in [...]

By |2020-09-17T10:57:58+03:00September 16th, 2020|innovation in Africa, Uncategorised|2 Comments

The Future Of Technology And The Role Of Africa

This was initially delivered as a keynote address at the Techpoint Build conference on 28th August, 2020. The future of technology concerns all of us. For example, across our companies, we are having conversations about the impact of the fourth industrial revolution, AI, or perhaps big data. We expect the future of technology will impact [...]

By |2020-09-01T10:33:05+03:00August 28th, 2020|blog, hubs in Africa|0 Comments