Mwale Medical and Technology City’s is set to house offices of four top world brands among them Netherlands company, Effect AI.
In a social media post, MMTC stated that the Effect AI, a Netherlands company partnering with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will base its Africa headquarters at its Innovation Park.
“The Innovation Park will soon have new tenants including Akoin- Effect's Kenya opportunity hub which will train 4,000 entrepreneurs in areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and help them start businesses,” read the post.
According to MMTC, an American company FQ 's Innovation Co-lab will also be opening its Africa region headquarters at the innovation park.
“This will act as FQ's African Headquarters. It has booked 4,000 square feet of space for 5 years at the research park, and will operate high tech innovation labs for women, and tech studios for content creation.”
Another incoming tenant is the South African Telehealth company Arqhealth, which is moving its global headquarters from Johannesburg to MMTC. Arqhealth will help Hamptons hospital expand telehealth services across Africa.
With these high-profile companies, Mwale’s innovation park will have over 10,000 researchers, engineers, and entrepreneurs anchoring one of Africa's leading innovation centers.
While visiting with MMTC team in February 2020, popular Senegalese-American singer Akon also promised to have an office at the Innovation Park.
During the visit, MMTC and Akon City agreed on a partnership to enable its expansion into West Africa. The $ 4 billion USD Akon City partnership cemented MMTC as a golden standard for new green Cities' development worldwide.
Akon group is benchmarking at MMTC and marketing the city as a medical tourism and technology city whereas MMTC is helping in building an anchor medical campus in Akon City and helping oversee the execution of the entire Akon City.
The city, which is associated with American-based investor Julius Mwale, is a US $ 2 billion sustainable metropolis centered around a state-of-the-art medical and technology complex located within Butere Sub- County, Kakamega County.
MMTC is built with 100% sustainable sources of energy including hundreds of solar-powered streetlights already brightening up freshly paved roads, as well as the completed solar power plant that produces clean electricity for the city from the sun.
MMTC also contains a 36-hole golf resort with 4,800 private residences along the golf course. It’s the first fully integrated development plan of its scale, and it is being implemented without relocating the local community. Instead, the homes of local community members are being upgraded to international standards with running water and electricity.
It has a 5000-bed state-of-the-art hospital, Hamptons Hospital, which will be able to serve 12,000 patients daily.
Hamptons Hospital is currently open and treating patients. Kakamega County residents with NHIF cards are treated without paying extra co-payment charges.
The Centers for advanced Radiology and Oncology are the anchors for the Hamptons hospital Research and innovation park at Mwale Medical and Technology City (MMTC).
