- The university's Vice Chancellor Prof Njenga Munene on Tuesday said Zetech is among the 10 finalists.
- Competition seeks to recognise best practices that can be replicated to provide sustainable solutions to the challenges facing ICT innovators.
Zetech University has been picked to represent the country in this year’s Africa Telecommunication Union challenge.
The university's Vice Chancellor Prof Njenga Munene on Tuesday said Zetech is among the 10 finalists in the challenge that seeks to recognise best practices that can be replicated in Africa to provide short and long-term sustainable solutions to the challenges facing young ICT innovators.
The university joined entities from other African countries including Startup Tunisia propulsse par Smart Capital, Apps and Girls, Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority, The Open University of Tanzania and Adamawa Code Kids in the challenge.
Others are Internet Society Chapitre du Benin, The Visiola Foundation, African Surveyors Connect and St Joseph University of Tanzania.
Prof Munene said students and the University’s Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology Development faculty will be representing the institution and the country as well in the challenge.
“This is a great milestone for the university and our students to competitively represent our country in the challenge whose outcome will provide solutions to a myriad of challenges the ICT world is facing. Our relentless effort to promote ICT and innovations is paying off,” Munene said.
He said the university has invested heavily in research and innovation, citing the opening of a Sh6 million innovation hub that hones and incubates students’ innovations.
“We have fully equipped the hub with relevant equipments and installations that will help our innovative students with great business ideas further and realise them. We are determined to assist our students so that they can be a problem solving lot and make meaningful contributions to the community and the country at large,” Munene said.
The VC at the same time said the university is partnering with other corporates including Red Bull Basement, Huawei, Powermax and Partners for Care among others, to provide an entrepreneurial infrastructure and opportunities to students with viable business ideas and innovations.
“We are partnering with like-minded development partners so that we can create a robust network which will breed our students’ innovations and graduate them to the entrepreneurial world. We are inculcating a culture of problem-solving thinking in our students so that they can participate in the transformation of our country,” Munene said.
-Edited by SKanyara