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It is early morning in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital. The traffic jam along Ngong Road, one of the city’s main feeder roads, stretches for kilometres as matatus (taxis), buses and cars try to make their way into the central business district. At the top floor of Bishop Magua Centre complex, sitting just off Ngong Road, Antony Njoroge is already at work, typing away at his computer, a mug of freshly brewed coffee beside him. He is the founder of RevWeb, a local software development company.

Njoroge works out of iHub, a working space that hosts developers, designers and others working with technology software. It is one of the most well-known tech hubs in Africa. In just four years since its founding, the iHub has over 13,000 members in its online and off-line community, held close to 500 events and had over 50 companies calling it home.

Weiterlesen: KE: Internet access is no longer a luxury – Fibre-optics could leap-frog Africa into the future

Kenyans living in rural areas can now digitally register their newborn babies, saving them long trips to Government offices and health centres.

This follows the development of a mobile-based civil birth registration platform that allows for real-time creation of birth records from any part of the country.

The new system, which has been developed by software company SAP, utilises a combination of biometric scanning and cloud storage to create a database of all children born in Kenya.

Weiterlesen: KE: Want to register your baby? There’s now an app for that

The new Trade Facilitation system set to enhance efficiency of cross-border trade at Kenyan seaport, airports and border posts

CrimsonLogic, a leading provider of eGovernment solutions and services headquartered in Singapore -- under a government contract between Kenya and Singapore, successfully rolled out the Kenya Electronic Single Window System, officially known as Kenya TradeNet. The system is CrimsonLogic's 18th live Trade Facilitation implementation so far, and its first major project in Kenya.

Weiterlesen: Kenya's National Single Window System to Launch

Kenya is rolling out free Wi-Fi across various towns in the country, but this initiative may not be enough to ensure digital inclusion, says an expert.

Counties such as Nakuru and Kisumu are in the process of putting up free Wi-Fi hotspots for their residents.

Meanwhile, telecom player Orange Kenya is also helping to setup Wi-Fi services in various regions in the country. Orange, in turn, plans to support county governments with implementing e-security, revenue collection and management, e-health services and online education initiatives.

Weiterlesen: 'Free Wi-Fi Isn’t Enough to Impact Digital Inclusion in Kenya'