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Jul 25 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
.@SafaricomPLC hired 400 software developers this year as the company seeks capacity to run its highly digitised business, underlining the demand for tech talent even as global digital companies set up shop in Nairobi. - @BD_Africa
The new hires are 6.4% of @SafaricomPLC's 6,230 permanent, temporary, and contracted employees at the end of last year highlighting the aggressive acquisition of tech-savvy workers.
.@SafaricomPLC CEO @PeterNdegwa_ said the company is expanding its tech staff as they transform from a connectivity business to a tech company offering a wide range of IT-linked services from e-commerce platform on #MPesaSuperApp, loans, wealth management, savings and insurance.
.@SafaricomPLC is now in direct competition for tech talent with global firms setting up in Nairobi including Google, Microsoft, and Amazon who are offering the tech community better perks.
Tech developers are being sought after in the industry as local and international companies fight for top talent in the country.
American tech giant Google is investing in it’s first-ever Africa product development hub in Nairobi as part of the tech firm's Sh115.5B investment on the continent over the next five years.
Google’s new investment underscores the emergence of Nairobi as a regional tech hub following the unveiling of Microsoft’s Sh3B office and labs for its premier engineering hub, the African Development Centre (ADC), after three years of operation in the country.
Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing platforms has also announced plans to launch an AWS local zone in Kenya in partnership with @SafaricomPLC.
AWS Local Zones are a type of infrastructure deployment that places compute, storage, database, and other select AWS services close to the large population and industrial centers.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers @ICANN, the non-profit corporation that coordinates the domain name systems, also announced that it will set up two Root Server (IMRS) clusters, one of which will be in Kenya.
.@SafaricomPLC says they rely on in-house talent and a network of over 42,000 independent developers who help Lipa na M-Pesa merchants, set up their business.
.@SafaricomPLC CEO Mr @PeterNdegwa_ said the telco now wants to start tapping developers from learning institutions while influencing the curriculum to have a wider pool of talent for the future.
We will be announcing soon that we are going to be partnering with other tech companies and universities to influence curriculum, certification of developers, and also internships so that we also develop talent for the industry - @PeterNdegwa_ CEO @SafaricomPLC
Big demand for techies as @SafaricomPLC employs 400 new developers as it evolves into a tech company. The telco is now fighting for top tech talent with global firms like Google, AWS that have set up shop in Kenya. bit.ly/3OvCjfd by @BD_Africa

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