Nivi Sharma is the Managing Director of BRCK (brck.com), who’s mission is to connect Africa to the internet, through providing a WiFi infrastructure to allow anyone with a smartphone to have free and open access to the internet. Nivi has dedicated her career to developing simple and holistic solutions providing digital access to everyone, from children and youth to adults. She is passionate about the potential impact the internet can have on the economic and social development for the 800m Africans who are currently not connected.
In 2011, Nivi co-founded eLimu (e-Limu.org), the first company to digitize the Kenyan Primary School curriculum for revision and literacy.
Nivi is a 2014 East Africa Acumen fellow and a 2016 fellow of the Fast Forward leadership programme.
In her spare time, she bakes, knits, runs and folds origami.
