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Microsoft’s rural Kenya Internet bid gets Sh400m
Students browse the Internet provided by Mawingu Networks Limited in a joint initiative with Microsoft to connect rural residents in Nanyuki to the service. PHOTO | FILE
Microsoft’s bid to offer cheap web connections in remote parts of Africa has got financial backing from the United States’ development finance institution, OPIC, with the signing of an agreement to fund Mawingu Networks, a provider of solar-powered wireless Internet in rural Kenya.
Overseas Private Investment Corporation president and chief executive Elizabeth Littlefield, who was in Nairobi for the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit, signed the deal alongside Microsoft’s head of legal and corporate affairs for the Middle East and Africa Antony Cook.
