Tech

When M-PESA was launched in March 2007, we did not know what impact it would have on our lives and the World in general. I was just out of high school, waiting to join college, and this was a good time to experiment with anything…

I stopped taking humans seriously when I learnt that a human being needs a birth certificate, as if their existence is in question, and a death certificate when they die to prove that they are dead and buried.   When my daughter was born, I…

The 2019 Kenya population and housing census is coming in a few months, and the government has been in the preparation mode for the several years. One of the preparation steps has been acquisition of over 164,700 devices that will be used, as the census…

Africa has made great strides in getting connected to the internet. There are 453,329,534 internet users, which translates to an  internet penetration of 32.5%. This figure is steadily growing, and we are steadily shaking off the tag of ‘the dark continent.’ But where is Africa’s…

Automatic number-plate recognition is a technology that uses optical character recognition on images to read vehicle registration plates. This simply means, a camera takes a picture, and a software analyzes the picture to identify a vehicle, then identify a number plate in the vehicle, and…