WeFarm: SMS Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Network for Farmers
WeFarm let farmers without internet ask and answer farming questions by free SMS/USSD, matching questions via NLP; it grew to over 1.8 …
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Most practices in: Kenya (87)
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's M-Pesa, launched 2007, lifted an est. 194,000 households (2% of Kenyan households) out of poverty by 2014, with female-headed households gaining …
Jacaranda Health's PROMPTS service uses a Swahili-language AI model to answer 10,000-12,000 daily SMS questions from nearly 3 million enrolled Kenyan mothers, …
Kenyan edtech M-Shule delivers AI-adaptive formative assessment and personalised literacy/numeracy practice via basic SMS, no internet or smartphone required. A 2025 peer-reviewed …
Kenya's first REDD+ project: Wildlife Works protects 200,000 ha of dry Acacia-Commiphora forest between Tsavo East and West National Parks, with 13.9 …
Nairobi's first major open tech innovation space, founded in 2010 with Omidyar Network and Hivos backing, catalysing Kenya's 'Silicon Savannah' developer and …
A four-year, €278,606 COVAW project trained women, youth and persons with disabilities in Kwale County, Kenya, to engage the budget process; 32 …
Since 2010, Sida-funded BioInnovate Africa, hosted at icipe in Nairobi, has run three phases turning East African university bioscience research into commercial …
Announced 19 May 2026 alongside Pakistan, Brazil and India, this Google.org-funded, UNICEF-implemented partnership works with Kenya's national Government on three pillars — …
An IMF-assisted nowcasting model gives Kenya's central bank weekly-updated GDP growth estimates from mobile-money, electricity, trade and remittance data, cutting the usual …
A three-NGO consortium trains and mentors microentrepreneurs with disabilities, backed by an in-kind growth-kit and procurement links. 2,467 reached (84% disabled), self-reported …
Launched in Nairobi in 2012 under the World Bank's infoDev programme, KCIC incubates and finances climate-tech SMEs. A 2016 World Bank review …
Kenya's KIPPRA, its Revenue Authority (KRA) and IFPRI built an AI-chat computable general equilibrium model for tax simulation; a 2024 run projected …
Researchers at the University of Sussex and Kenya's RCMRD built machine-learning models forecasting NDMA's official VCI3M drought indicator up to 6 weeks …
Africa's first tech hub, launched March 2010 in Nairobi by Erik Hersman (Omidyar Network/Hivos). Now a CcHUB subsidiary. 450+ startups trace origins …
SMS/USSD platform delivering curriculum lessons and teacher Q&A to 4.5M+ students in Kenya, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire via feature phones at $0.03/day. …
UNICEF Kenya, eKitabu and KICD piloted a Universal-Design-for-Learning digital textbook — with audio, Kenyan Sign Language video and simplified-text versions — reaching …
After Kenya's 2010 devolution, Makueni County built a six-tier participatory budgeting process from village to county level. By FY2016/17, World Bank data …
Kenya's national digital-jobs programme has trained ~391,000 youth since 2016 via 101 empowerment centres and mentorship, linking them to online freelance/BPO work …
Kenya Bureau of Standards, working with disability NGO inABLE and government regulators, gazetted KS 2952 in 2022 — Africa's first national ICT …
KWS unveiled a national AI-and-drone anti-poaching strategy in Nairobi (March 2026), building on WWF's Kifaru Rising thermal-camera network, live since 2019 across …
Young Scientists Kenya trained 170 secondary-school teachers in Nakuru, Mandera, Tana River and Wajir counties to deliver the Raspberry Pi Foundation/Google DeepMind …
UNICEF and ITU's Giga initiative trained CNN classifiers on satellite imagery to find schools missing from national databases, adding 23,100 unmapped schools …
Kenya's government, Microsoft and Pathways Technologies run a train-the-trainer AI skilling programme for TVET instructors and students, targeting 100,000 trained by May …
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