Nomso Kana-Founder Sun n Shield, broadband entrepreneur and gender activist

Nomso Kana is a young broadband entrepreneur and gender activist. She started a career as a nuclear researcher but after being frustrated by slow internet speeds she started the fibre optic manufacturing company Sun n Shield. She believes broadband is an essential service that should be available to everybody wherever they live.

Nomso grew up in the rural Eastern Cape where she studied maths and physics although she was only exposed to a physics laboratory when she studied at the University of Fort Hare.

She is also a co-founder of the NPO Taungana. "Taungana is a movement that empowers rural African high school girls with the opportunity to access and explore Science, Technology, Engineering, Entrepreneurship & Math (STEM)"