IBM reverses Africa brain drain with Nairobi office hirings


Global tech firm IBM is seeking highly-qualified African techies in the diaspora who are willing to return to the continent and develop innovative IT solutions at its sole African research lab opened in Nairobi in August this year.

The tech firm is seeking Africans working in IT firms or teaching in western universities with doctorate degrees in computer science or engineering in a move that promises to reverse the brain drain that has hit emerging economies like Kenya.

“We need Africans with the right skill who are willing to come back to the continent and make an impact,” says IBM in a circular copied to Stanford University and seen by the Business Daily.

“We are looking for candidates who have an outstanding human/computer interaction background and research scientists who will help us to realise our smarter planet agenda in Africa.”
The American multinational seeks to recruit scientists to develop and deploy IT applications to tackle challenges such as food security, inefficiencies in public procurement systems and urban planning which have hampered economic growth in Africa.

The New York-based corporation is engaging American universities to identify doctoral degree holders in disciplines such as computer science, engineering, energy, mathematics and physics who will be employed at the IBM Research Lab in Kenya.

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