Silicon Elsewhere : Nairobi, Global China, and the Promise of Techno-Capital / Andrea Pollio.

Introduction: The Silicon Savannah's Beijing Connection.

1. Silicon States of Development.

2. Machines of Data Frontiers.

3. Platforms of Algorithmic Suturing.

4. Microgeopolitics of Standards.

5. Labors of Investability.

6. Ethnographies of Techno-Optimism.

Coda: Thinking Technology Elsewhere, and Otherwise.

Explores Nairobi's emergence as Africa's Silicon Savannah and examines the intersections between technological innovation, venture capital, digital infrastructures, and China's expanding technological and economic presence in East Africa. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, interviews, and fieldwork, the author investigates how entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, bureaucrats, and data specialists negotiate competing visions of technological development and techno-capital. The work analyzes data economies, platform technologies, investment networks, and innovation ecosystems, positioning Nairobi as a significant center of experimentation and technological transformation within contemporary global capitalism.

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