appeared in kenya a version of the app came out in south africa south african software engineer bryson king's trains programmers all over africa he advises them to use open source software as a release to african countries open stories has a big. impact in terms of helping africans build products to solve for african challenges and local problems the market for open source applications is growing faster in africa the new any other continent according to a report by u.s. based collaborative software development platform get hub this year nigeria had the world's highest rise in open source project 59 percent compared to last year similarly high growth rates were seen for kenya tunisia and morocco but it seems the idea of using freely available software and modifying it for customized applications is gaining traction among programmers across africa and well in the studio now a familiar face moses are cost think you very much for coming in moses he's the founder and c.e.o. of offer a link consultancy advising investors on africa and the african tech scene moses what might those numbers we're seei