Apart from New York,  Kenya's capital City Nairobi is also buzzing with innovative ideas, and some of them might just need the right space to develop and become a reality.

Known as unofficial headquarters of Kenya's tech movement, iHub is a coworking space and business incubator in Nairobi.

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Founded in 2010, iHub provides a space where young entrepreneur members can recieve mentorship, Internet connectivity and the possibility of venture funding through connections with the international venture capital community.

Since iHub's establishment, many companies have been established with its help.

Ushahidi is one of them.

Nowadays, getting information fast and accurately is extremely important.

Ushahidi is a company specializing in developing free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.

SOUNDBITE (ENGLISHY) LIMO TABOI, USHAHIDI'S FINANCE DIRECTOR
"Ushahidi is about telling your story, whatever you're in, by mobile phone, so whether it's about elections that are happening in your place, there's been an earthquake in your area, it's you and your mobile phone communicating, and getting some assistance or getting the message out."

Ushahidi has since gone global, partnering with the World Bank and UNDP to bring the technology to other countries.

SOUNDBITE (ENGLISHY) LIMO TABOI, USHAHIDI'S FINANCE DIRECTOR
"We're a very small company, about 20 people, and election monitoring for example takes thousands of observers in a country, so what we do when we partner with an organisation like the UN or UNDP, is that we focus on the software part and then leave the 80 percent part to them."

The iHub's founders now hope that other small start-ups could benefit from similar partnerships.

SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) HELEN CLARK, UNDP OFFICIAL
"For lifting the productivity of business, ICT is critical, getting information out in real time to farmers, to small business, enabling people through the application of ICT to really improve on what they're doing. As well as that there's all the advantages for education, for healthcare systems, for linking marginalized groups into the society, so every way you look at ICT, it is important for Africa."

Brilliant minds can use the iHub in a number of ways, from a basic membership which gives them access to information online and events, to a membership that gives them full access to the iHub office space and its facilities.

28-year-old Nivi Mukherjee's e-Limu is an example in case. e-Limu is an application that gives students access to good quality learning materials.

SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) NIVI MUKHERJEE, E-LIMU CEO
"The three things that we cannot ignore in our educational agenda are play, creativity and fun, ok? Those are the three things that we said they need to be embraced in our educational agenda."

Since the iHub was set up in 2010, its founders have been pleased to see initiatives like Mukherjee's doing so well.

SOUNDBITE (ENGLISHY) LIMO TABOI, USHAHIDI'S FINANCE DIRECTOR
"In the last two years the companies that have been born out of this space have really been blazing trails in other areas beyond the iHub."