M-Pesa – Mobile Money as Financial and Digital Inclusion Infrastructure
Safaricom's M-Pesa turned basic phones into bank accounts across Kenya. A landmark Science study found it lifted 194,000 households out of poverty; …
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Safaricom's M-Pesa turned basic phones into bank accounts across Kenya. A landmark Science study found it lifted 194,000 households out of poverty; …
Kenyan entrepreneur Su Kahumbu launched iCow as a voice hotline for dairy farmers, then rebuilt it as SMS/USSD after learning what her …
Nairobi's Signs Media Kenya broadcasts free Kenyan Sign Language content via Signs TV and, through its assistALL app, brought paid sign-language interpretation …
Since 2009, NGO inABLE has installed assistive-technology computer labs in six specialist schools across four Kenyan counties, enrolling over 7,700 blind and …
A six-month AT2030 study by the Global Disability Innovation Hub gave 193 Deaf/hard-of-hearing and blind/partially-sighted Kenyans smartphones and accessibility-feature training, delivered locally …
eKitabu, a Nairobi edtech nonprofit, builds born-accessible e-books for blind/low-vision learners and Kenyan Sign Language video storybooks for deaf learners with Kenya's …
Kenya's Ajira Digital programme has trained 390,968 young people across all 47 counties since 2017 via 101 free-access empowerment centres, connecting 119,462 …
Close the Gap refurbishes decommissioned European computers at its Mombasa Circular Economy Hub, selling low-cost units to Kenyan SMEs and schools while …
Nairobi startup Signvrse built Terp 360, an AI-driven 3D avatar that translates English speech and text into Kenyan Sign Language in real …
WeFarm let farmers without internet ask and answer farming questions by free SMS/USSD, matching questions via NLP; it grew to over 1.8 …
Kenya Bureau of Standards, working with disability NGO inABLE and government regulators, gazetted KS 2952 in 2022 — Africa's first national ICT …
In December 2017 Safaricom added an Interactive Voice Response option to M-Pesa, Kenya's dominant mobile-money service, so blind and low-vision customers could …
In early 2026, Kenya's State Department for Correctional Services, Close the Gap and Tech Kids Africa installed 250 refurbished computers across 14 …
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