Next banking frontier is fintechs, lender tie-ups

This week, two things happened in the ICT industry that caught my attention.

The first was news that Kenya’s quest to bring to life the first Technopolis was confirmed as a pipe dream, blamed on lack of funding and labelled as ‘too ambitious’. Heaped with much praise and touted as what would finally emboss the Silicon Savannah title on Kenya, it was expected that in another year, we would have basic infrastructure in place, a handful of institutions training a tech-savvy workforce commensurate to the opportunities from the country’s bustling tech-enterprises.