Microsoft's Mike Fortin on helping nurture Africa's next tech stars
Stuff podcast21 Touko 2019

Microsoft's Mike Fortin on helping nurture Africa's next tech stars

Mike Fortin, corporate vice president at Microsoft and the lead in the newly established Africa Development Centre in Nairobi, sits down with Stuff editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak to talk about the company's $100 million investment in Kenya and Nigeria that will see it training 100 (and eventually 500) engineers with the sort of skills that'll enable to them to face the challenges of the fourth industrial revolution head-on.

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