MIT AITI: Press Coverage

This article in West African Technology Blog TechLoy details the 6 project groups that emerged from the AITI's Nigeria 2011 Summer program.

This article details the final application showcase of the Rwandan Summer 2011 program.

Encipher's Co-founder & CEO Saheed Adepoju comes to speak to the MIT AITI students at the University of Ibadan about business ethics in Nigeria and starting up a business. He also delivered the story of his startup and his company's Android tablet, INYE. The students had a chance to play with the tablet and also interact with Saheed.

A representative from the World Wide Web Foundation visited Rwanda to access "opportunities and challenges of implementing a Mobile Entrepreneurs program in Rwanda." AITI was prominently featured in the field visit summary document. The summary was a bit harsh in that it called AITI's interventions "low scale" and did not mention that there is local ownership of the program as demonstrated by KIST holding an AITI extension course, instructed by local instructors.

A Time article on the transformative effect of mobiles in Africa, particularly Kenya. The company m-Farm, founded by AITI 2010 alumnus Susan Eve Oguya, is mentioned in the article.

Three students from AITI's 2010 program in Kenya have developed a disease tracking mobile service. Strathmore University's press release details the developments.

The Randan New Times has a great article that covers Hehe, Ltd’s recent activities. Hehe, Ltd is a startup that grew out of AITI’s Rwanda Summer 2010 program. The company was founded by AITI students and has achieved great success in the short time since the program.

MIT AITI is marking 10 years. The climax of the celebrations will be a mobile programming business plan competition on Friday, 30th July at the auditorium from 10.00am to 1.00pm at Strathmore University in Kenya