# The Things Network Nairobi

A local community of The Things Network: people building an open, free LoRaWAN® network for the Internet of Things in and around Nairobi.

- Country: [Kenya](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/country/kenya/)
- Status: Campaign (a community getting started)
- Founded: 2016
- Members: 43
- Location: -1.2832, 36.8171
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/nairobi/

## About

On a mission to provide Nairobi Kenya with a free IoT data network and developers a platform to build IoT devices.

Our lab is located at Strathmore University where we are building an IoT portal where IoT technologies can all integrate.
We are currently experimenting with LoRa technology and we would to build much capacity in IoT through LoRa/LoRaWAN.

## Contact

Contact:

Name : Kelvin Mwega,
Email : kmwega@gmail.com,
Twitter : https://twitter.com/KevMwega.
Phone : (+254) 726156816.

Name : Leonard Mabele,
Phone : (+254) 714764896.
- Chat: https://ttnnairobi.slack.com/

## Resources

- [Forum](http://forum.thethingsnetwork.org/)

## In the media

- [The Next Web - The Things Network wants to make every city smart](http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/08/19/the-things-network-wants-to-make-every-city-smart-starting-with-amsterdam/)