Dona Sarkar spoke with Neowin about the Windows Insider Program, Surface Phone (!), Insider MVPs, Windows 10 Mobile, how Microsoft is approaching technology in emerging markets, sleep, and lots more.
Last week, I attended Microsoft’s NexTech Africa conference in Nairobi, Kenya , where the company announced details of its new East Africa Fellowship program, part of its global #Insiders4Good initiative. The new program builds on the foundations of the earlier Nigeria Fellowship, and aims to support a group of local entrepreneurs across four countries, helping them to use technology to solve real-world problems, providing them with hardware and software, along with technical and strategic mentorship.
During the course of NexTech, I had the pleasure of speaking with dozens of people from all over Kenya and elsewhere in Africa, gaining a greater personal understanding of the challenges that people face across the continent, and the innovative technological solutions that they’re applying to get to grips with some of those issues.
