First, people-centricity must be at the heart of technology and innovations. Any technology and innovation must answer the question of what need it is solving. We are increasingly attracted by the fanciness of technology and innovation and are blinded to the problem it is solving. Kenya’s mobile money story has become a global posterchild of innovation.
What is often missed, is the problem of transferring money from urban to rural areas, that spawned the digital revolution in Kenya. My clarion call to students who are in the audience and are aspiring to be innovators and entrepreneurs is to keep people’s needs at the centre of everything that you do.