What this document is
Konza Technopolis, marketed in Kenya as the "Silicon Savannah," is a planned technology hub and special economic zone roughly 64 kilometers south of Nairobi, spread across land in Machakos, Makueni and Kajiado counties. Then-President Mwai Kibaki broke ground on the project in January 2013 as part of Kenya's long-term Vision 2030 development plan, aiming to give the country a purpose-built base for technology and business-process-outsourcing firms.
Progress slowed after Kibaki left office, and the project has moved forward in stages rather than as a single build. Horizontal infrastructure, the roads, power and water systems a site needs before anything else can go up, was finished in 2022; Huawei completed phases of a National Data Centre on the site between 2020 and 2021; and the Kenya Advanced Institute of Science and Technology reached the end of its first construction phase by 2025. A second phase of the project involves South Korean partners working on digital media and smart-city components.
By the government's own account, roughly three-quarters of Konza's parcels now have investor commitments attached, and officials have set an eighteen-month deadline for those investors to start building.
Where to find it
No current copy from Konza Technopolis Development Authority is linked here.