ICT CS Joe Mucheru is the only African attending the ongoing conference on the Blockchain technology in Morocco.
The summit is also being attended by billionaire Sir. Richard Branson and Google Co-Founder, Sergey Brin.
The four -day summit being held in Marrakech will be used to explore ways how to build Blockchain Technology in Africa in the near future.
Mucheru who addressed the summit stated that blockchain innovation needs to come from within Africa and stay there.
The CS added that there was a plan to work with regulators to keep blockchain startup revenue flowing into Kenya. The startups are being encouraged to enlist with the Nairobi Securities Exchange.
In Africa, we have Ghana's Bitland and Kenya's Land Layby working to use blockchain to create formally recognized infrastructures.
The CS further stated that he will strive to help African programmers learn how to write blockchain code.