Nairobi

Nairobi

Nairobi, global conference, environmental.

My mom left Nairobi, Kenya.

So, that's Kibera, the largest squatter community in Nairobi.

Estimated time of arrival, in Nairobi, is 8 30.

It's on the outskirts of Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya.

This was Southland, a small shanty community on the western side of Nairobi, Kenya.

If you were to arrive in Nairobi today and pick up a tourist map,

Because in town this is the bustling squatter city of Kibera, near Nairobi they see action.

He'd spent three years in Nairobi living on the streets because his parents had died of AlDS.

I used to work as the director of the World Bank office in Nairobi for East Africa.

And I found out later that it was Julius' first day in Nairobi, and he's one of many.

We'll touch down in Nairobi, our next stopover in 8 hours, we're at 12.000 meter above sea level.

But it could've been anywhere in the city, because more than half the city of Nairobi lives like this.

Right now, Chris and Kevin and Dennis and Dickson and their friends are watching us, in Nairobi, right now.

And specifically, it's looking at a blacksmith in Kibera in Nairobi, who is turning the shaft of a Landrover into a cold chisel.

loans and investments that will go the long term with them, they built a low cost housing development, about an hour outside Nairobi central.

like healthcare, like housing, and they pay 30 to 40 times what their middleclass counterparts pay certainly where we work in Karachi and Nairobi.

And there was a lawyer in Nairobi, Ory Okolloh who some of you may know from her TEDTalk who began blogging about it on her site,

It's about three miles out of Nairobi, and it's a mile long and about two tenths of a mile wide, where over half a million people

Aside from one person ABC mini bureaus in Nairobi, New Delhi and Mumbai, there are no network news bureaus in all of Africa, India or South America

The first TEDxBrookhouseSchool was organized last year in November, with an audience of a hundred high school students from six schools in Nairobi, and a few adults.

He was only a few weeks old at our school, when he was asked to participate in TED Talent Search in Nairobi, and that's actually what got us curious.

And that's why we set up the iHub in Nairobi, an actual physical space where we could collaborate, and it is now part of an integral tech ecosystem in Kenya.

I want to make this open to everybody, so that the health officer in Nairobi or in Patna, Bihar will have as much access to it as the folks in Ottawa or in CDC.

I will close by saying that, if we solve this for the local market, it could be impactful not only for the coders in Nairobi but also for small business owners who need reliable connectivity, and it can reduce the cost of connecting, and hopefully collaboration within African countries.

In the meantime, I was chairing donor meetings, for instance, in which the various donors, and many of them like to be in Nairobi it is true, it is one of the unsafest cities of the world, but they like to be there because the other cities are even less comfortable.

So we looked at the modem, an important part of the infrastructure of the Internet, and asked ourselves why the modems that we are using right now are built for a different context, where you've got ubiquitous internet, you've got ubiquitous electricity, yet we sit here in Nairobi and we do not have that luxury.