Hi everyone, welcome to the A6 and Z podcast, and today this podcast is all about technology and Africa.

Now, that's a really huge topic. So we have experts from various backgrounds and regions of Africa

to help us cover a lot of interesting nuances behind the stats that we typically hear, as well as a lot of the buzzwords that we commonly hear.

Our three guests to help us do this today are Alan Not Craig, who runs Project Isisway,

an NGO based in South Africa that helps African governments get free Wi-Fi in poor communities.

Their goal is to create internet access as a utility.

Prior to founding Project Isisway, Alan was an entrepreneur who ran Mixit, which is one of the largest

mobile social networks created in Africa.

In Kiru is our next guest, and she is the CEO Spinlet, a digital media company that focuses on African-centric music and has music available on iOS, Android, and also via web browser.

And we'll talk more about why, about that later.

Spinlet's headquartered in Nigeria, but they're also elsewhere in Africa and also in Europe

and in the United States.

Fun fact, Enkidu was actually an IPO lawyer who joined the company as general counsel before

becoming CEO, and she actually didn't think she was ready to be CEO until she read Cheryl

Sandberg's book Lean In, which actually inspired her to go

ahead and take the CEO job, and now she's been in it for the past year and a half. And finally,

we have Nanjira, the research lead at IHub. IHub is an incubator, not an accelerator, although it does

lead to acceleration of startups. It's based in Kenya and provides a physical space for connecting entrepreneurs

a way to test their ideas, provide info to them, and much more. And they do a lot of interesting

research as well, and some of that will come up in this podcast. Okay, so that's our guest

on today's pod, and we're honored to have you all join all the way from various parts of Africa.

I think the first thing I want to start with is sort of just

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