Morris Mbetsa Mwero

Morris Mbetsa Mwero is an Innovator and Entrepreneur working within the Eastern Africa region. Morris Mbetsa Mwero focuses on producing social uplifting and economic sustaining technology products for Africa. He is the kid who developed the first vehicle GPRS IMMOBILISER. He has developed a tablet to be used by students and a device to tap kinetic energy to power them at Tafaria Foundation. Morris is a self-taught Electronic and Technology engineer since the age of eight. He is constantly expanding his portfolio of simple, inexpensive technologies because his country’s population continues to expand, creating new problems and deepening old ones. Morris Mbetsa is the Chairman and Founder for Innovators Society of Kenya. He is the current CEO and Founder of Mbetsa Innovations Ltd, a society which assist young innovators to turn ideas into products and services. As a Washington Fellow Morris Mbetsa seeks to use the Knowledge and connections he shall obtain from the fellowship to further his entrepreneurial ventures into Techpreneur by setting up Innovation and entrepreneurship centers in technical colleges and university that will offer both software and hardware training. With the help of his other fellows across the country and continent, he hopes to transform the youth and empower them into self-sustaining individuals that can make a difference in the lives of their families. Morris was one of 100 Fellows competitively selected to participate in an 8-week internship in the United States following the Mandela Washington Fellowship academic institute. He interned at IBM in August-September 2014.