MARTIN SEEMUNGAL:

So there is an enormous appetite for apps and the mobile boom is fuelling a whole new generation of young, African, entrepreneurs.

Mobi-Dev is one of many tech start-ups in Kenya specializing in app development.

The team at Mobi-Dev is just about ready to release its latest app, designed to help parents find missing children—essentially a mobile link to data at police stations and children's homes across the country.

The majority of Kenyans don't have smartphones so, many of the services and apps are the texting kind low-tech but effective.

One helps people cope with Nairobi's notorious traffic.