C4DLab — University of Nairobi's Public-University Tech Incubator and Intel/UNICEF Partnership

C4DLab (Computing for Development Lab) was founded in 2013 as the first phase of a planned Centre for Computing for Development at the University of Nairobi's School of Computing and Informatics, making a public university itself the incubation host rather than an external accelerator.

In June 2015 the lab's incubation programme was rebranded as the Africa Technology and Innovation Accelerator (AfTIA), structured into pre-incubation, early-stage acceleration and growth-stage acceleration tracks, open to students, alumni, researchers and the wider public, with incubation cohorts capped at six months and applicants vetted on working prototypes. In February 2016, Intel partnered with C4DLab to run design-thinking courses inside AfTIA focused on Internet-of-Things applications, with UNICEF's Office of Innovation involved in the launch.

The evidence base here is programmatic rather than outcome-based: available sources document the lab's founding, structure and named partnerships, but not an independently verified count of graduate start-ups, jobs or revenue. This practice is best read as a public-university incubation model worth watching rather than a proven-impact case.

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