Had a full day at University on Monday. For the benefit of those who don't know why I'm here: UoNairobi and Stanford are collaborating on a really cool class together, which will design and develop mobile applications (or services) to help with healthcare in Kenya. I am here in Nairobi to make this collaboration stronger, and help enable a smooth transfer of knowledge from both sides. The hope is that together, students will come up with innovative projects that will actually make a difference. More details about Stanford's course can be found at http://cs379l.stanford.edu.

UoNairobi students have spent the last couple weeks in the field to uncover needs - from both sides - people who provide healthcare and people who access healthcare. In total, 27 students are enrolled in the class here - they divided themselves into 9 groups of three, each targeting a particular stakeholder (for eg. Community Health Worker, Nurses, Insurance companies, etc). I just received their research findings last evening - so the next few days will be spent uncovering that with them. 

I also got an opportunity to interact with a few students yesterday - and that was the highlight of the day! Students here are not only smart and intelligent, they are very easily approachable and extremely humble. Talking to them about their fieldwork, all of them got really excited to share their experience. A huge sigh of relief, because I was worried about being able to communicate well with them. Based on these initial interactions, I am excited to work with them in the next few days, and uncover some solid needs that can be passed on to students in Stanford.

Pictures: some sights from the university. the computer lab is very well equipped - i will be spending most of my time this week around here.