The Makerthon, which runs from 16–20 March 2026, provides a collaborative environment where multidisciplinary student teams rapidly design, prototype and test solutions to real-world challenges. Hosted at the C4DLab innovation hub, the event reflects the University of Nairobi’s commitment to advancing innovation, entrepreneurship and technology-driven problem solving across the continent.
Health Systems Innovation Hackathon
The Harvard Health Systems Innovation Lab is organizing its 6 th annual Health Systems
Innovation Hackathon on Thursday 10 th April and Friday 11 th April 2025. The theme of this
year’s Hackathon is ‘Building High-Value Health Systems: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence’.
The event will be global and we anticipate hundreds of participants in Boston and across
Innovation Hubs in North America, Central and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
The AI for Health Seminar scheduled to take place on 22 October, 2024 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm. The seminar themed "AI for Health: Innovations, Challenges and the Future of Care" has been organised by C4DLab, Department of Computing and Informatics.
As we come close to this year's Nairobi Innovation Week 2023, We will launch an Innovation, Incubation and Commercialization Program ( IIC) as a precursor to the main event.
The Innovation Incubation Commercialization (IIC) program is a university of Nairobi program implemented by Intellectual Property Management Office and C4DLab. This program is for innovators with innovations that have potential for market commercialization. In the program, experienced industry players will coach and mentor the innovator teams in their quest to refine their innovations by translating them from ideas and prototypes to minimum viable products and services.
Kenya Norway Mobility (KeNoMo)( Project is an academic collaboration that establishes a long-term sustainable relationship between KCA University, University of Stavanger (UiS), and University of Nairobi (UoN). The project is funded by NORPART – Norwegian Partnership Programme for Global Academic Cooperation and it is expected to end in march 2023.The main objective of the project is to facilitate mutual student mobility and academic cooperation between the partners, and will thus enhance the quality of computer science education in both Norway and Kenya.
The importance of data science is based on the ability to take existing data that is not necessarily useful on its own and combine it with other data points to generate insights an organization can use to learn more about its customers and audience and use it to make business decisions(read further information on the brochure, we will share more information once you have registered).
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Nairobi has received a sub-ward of $160,000 to
promote blockchain research and learning at the institution. The main grant of $8 Million was awarded
by the Algorand Foundation to the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University (USA) which
led a consortium consisting of 15 other universities from five continents that will benefit as
subawardees. At the University of Nairobi, the project team is led by Dr. Andrew Kahonge and Dr. Evans
The Hackathon was set to run from the 17th February to 17th March this year and has been phased into 4 stages. The first phase involve instructor-led and self-paced training of the participants on Microsoft Azure and the Business Problem Statements. In the second stage, the students went through the coding with mentorship from representatives from Equity, University of Nairobi, Meru University of Science and Technology and Microsoft. Their solutions then went through a 1st and 2nd knock off stage, that culminate in the selection of the 3 winners.
This year's Nairobi Innovation Week 2022 will showcase innovations from the students, faculty, start-ups to policymakers, funders, industry, innovation enablers, non-governmental organizations, research institutions, and the general public.
