Our April 2024 virtual lab meeting will be held on April 17, 2024 at 1:00pm to 2:30pm (UK Time).

Speakers;

1. Tabea Brüning, Doctoral Student at Leuphana University of Lüneburg

2. Parijat Chakrabarti, PostDoc at the University of Michigan

The INTERA February 2024 Virtual Lab meeting will be held on February 14, 2024 at 1:00pm to 2:30pm (UK Time).

Speakers;

1. Alexandrine Royer, PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge

2. Maria Schmidt, PhD Candidate at RWTH Aachen University

We will hold our January 2024 virtual lab meeting on January 17, 2024 at 1:00pm to 2:30pm (UK Time)

Speakers;

1. John Kieti, Global ICT4D Technical Specialist

2. N'zoret Innocent Assoman, Doctoral Candidate at Kansas State University

Our December 2023 virtual lab meeting will be held on Wednesday, December 13, 2023, from 1:00pm to 2:30pm (UK Time).

Speakers;

1. Kyeyoung Shin, DPhil Candidate at the University of Oxford

2. Tim Weiss, Assistant Professor at the Department of Management & Entrepreneurship at Imperial College London and Joel Bothello, Associate Professor in Management at the John Molson School of Business

Our first virtual lab session took place on Wednesday, October 11 2023 from 1 to 2.30 pm (UK time).

Presentations;

1. Breaking Bad: The Mechanisms of Institutionalizing Destructiveness in an Africa’s Illegal Gold Mining Context.

   Presenter: Fardeen Abdulrahman Dodo, PhD Candidate at the University of Bologna

   Discussant: Joel Bothello, Associate Professor in Management at the John Molson School of Business

2. LAKOU: An Exploration of Entrepreneurial Communities in Haiti

   Presenter: Howard Jean-Denis, Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at Pepperdine University

   Discussant: Helen Haugh, Associate Professor in Community Enterprise at University of Cambridge

We are excited to announce the second meeting to launch the INTERA virtual lab model. This will deepen research on Africa-related phenomena in digital technologies and entrepreneurship. This meeting will be held on September 13 at 1 to 2pm London Time.

We have 35 predoctoral, doctoral, postdoctoral and faculty members that are already signed up.

We look forward to meeting you all.

It is with great excitement that we announce the launch of the INTERA virtual lab model to deepen research on Africa-related phenomena. The first meeting will be held on August 30 2023 at 1 to 2pm GMT. 

We have 35 predoctoral, doctoral, postdoctoral and faculty members signed up to the virtual lab.

We look forward to interacting with you all and a successful launch.

By: Angela Okune and Leonida Mutuku (iHub Research).

Discussant: Seyram Avle

Abstract:

Drawing out a genealogy of Kenyan STS that links to and also complicates Nairobi as a hub for techno-capital and venture philanthropy, in this essay, we build on work by critical computing and communications scholars to better understand the increasingly fraught discussions about race, privilege, expertise and capital which are transpiring in the Nairobi tech sector. As founding members of iHub Research, the research department of Nairobi’s flagship co-working technology space, we interweave our experiences from five years of strategizing and developing the research department of Nairobi’s flagship technology center with critical analysis of policy documents, research reports and funder narratives to understand the emergence of Nairobi as “Silicon Savannah” and the production of the Black African Techpreneur as another figure of international development.