:00:03. > :00:13.urgent action. Now on BBC News, it is time for
:00:13. > :00:19.Click. Sounds like they are just through
:00:19. > :00:29.there. They are really, really close. I can see them. So close
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:00:40. > :00:45.Welcome to Click. Welcome to one of the most vibrant places on earth.
:00:46. > :00:53.It is colourful, it is conflicted and it's believed to be the cradle
:00:53. > :00:57.of humanity. The place we all came from. This is Kenya. This week, we
:00:57. > :01:01.are hitting the road to hunt down the country's latest tech
:01:01. > :01:06.innovations. We will look at the simple yet vibrant services helping
:01:06. > :01:11.to save lives. And we go off-road to go up close and personal with
:01:11. > :01:16.these guys. But how can satellite technology stop them getting too
:01:16. > :01:25.close to anyone else? All that plus the very latest Tech News and the
:01:25. > :01:31.best of the word in Webscape. -- the Web.
:01:31. > :01:36.Straddling the equator on the east coast of Africa. Kenya is 580,000
:01:36. > :01:42.square kilometres of land and it is our destination for the next seven
:01:42. > :01:47.days. Time to board this 80s throwback transportation and munch
:01:47. > :01:53.away through 7,000 kilometres of airspace. This is a country with
:01:53. > :01:58.some hi-tech credentials. Nairobi is home to a booming tech community,
:01:58. > :02:02.bursting with ideas. So much so that some refer to the city as the
:02:02. > :02:08.Silicon Savannah. Nearly three- quarters of Kenya's 14 million
:02:08. > :02:13.people own a mobile phone. And many of those used one to go online. --
:02:13. > :02:17.40 million. But not far from the high and shopping streets are a
:02:17. > :02:22.dramatic changes happening. 0 most -- almost a quarter live on less
:02:22. > :02:26.than $1 a day and many without access to healthcare access. And
:02:26. > :02:32.this is where basic technology can make a real difference. That is why
:02:32. > :02:37.we have come here, to Ruiru, about 20 kilometres north-east of Nairobi.
:02:37. > :02:47.A typical Kenyan town. What is not typical is what Neri, who lives
:02:47. > :02:48.
:02:48. > :02:55.here, is about to do. --. Neri. In the midday heat, she takes the half
:02:55. > :02:59.hour phone-call sitting down. After all, she is pregnant. For the past
:02:59. > :03:04.six months, these calls have tracked her health as her unborn
:03:04. > :03:08.baby develops. She is one of 90 women taking part in the trial
:03:08. > :03:18.called Baby Monitor, the aim of which is to develop an automated
:03:18. > :03:28.
:03:28. > :03:32.screening system that can identify Most women are from poor areas like
:03:32. > :03:36.this Mohi estate never see a health professional during their pregnancy
:03:36. > :03:40.and they usually deliver at home. Those who do want help often have
:03:40. > :03:45.no help but to walk miles to the nearest clinic. Another reason why
:03:45. > :03:53.many choose not to visit at all and why every year around 6,000 women
:03:53. > :03:57.in Kenya have died due to pregnancy related complications. As part of
:03:57. > :04:02.the trial, she comes to the Jacaranda Health Clinic for regular
:04:02. > :04:06.check-ups. And crucially for Baby Monitor, the nurse asks the same
:04:06. > :04:10.questions posed by the automated phone calls. The two sets of
:04:10. > :04:13.answers will be compared to each other and the nurse's physical
:04:13. > :04:17.assessment, to determine whether Baby Monitor is asking the right
:04:17. > :04:23.questions. That means in the future, the algorithm can be tweaked to
:04:24. > :04:33.more sex fully diagnosed problems without human back-up. -- war
:04:34. > :04:36.
:04:36. > :04:41.successfully. We can give you out who needs more attention. -- figure
:04:41. > :04:44.out. It is not only the community health workers who are in high
:04:44. > :04:48.demand. The World Health Organisation estimates there is
:04:48. > :04:53.only one doctor for every 10,000 people in the country. A small
:04:53. > :04:57.village may not even have a local physician, which means pregnant or
:04:57. > :05:04.not getting a professional diagnosis for even a simple Eilidh
:05:04. > :05:10.is difficult. -- ailment. This is where a mobile mac like MedAfrica
:05:10. > :05:14.can help. The founder has ambitions to create a huge medical database
:05:14. > :05:19.that can provide medical are loads and help find the new list of
:05:19. > :05:23.doctors. That assumes that you or somebody you know it owns the
:05:23. > :05:33.smartphone. In every village, there is somebody who uses the phone for
:05:33. > :05:34.
:05:34. > :05:39.Jess Ennis or uses Facebook. -- SMS. In one village or one hopes that,
:05:39. > :05:44.somebody has made Africa. If your grandmother has an issue, you can
:05:44. > :05:49.give her the right information that she requires. -- MedAfrica.
:05:49. > :05:54.even if you can get to see a doctor and get a good diagnosis, there are
:05:54. > :05:59.yet more hurdles to overcome. Around 30% of drugs in circulation
:05:59. > :06:04.in Kenya are fake, containing none acted for even poisonous substances.
:06:04. > :06:07.This is the device that was lured to Kenyan officials by Brandon mac,
:06:07. > :06:13.one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world, to tackle
:06:13. > :06:16.the problem. -- Brandon mac. It can chemically analyse a drug through
:06:16. > :06:23.its packaging and confirm its authenticity but it is clearly not
:06:23. > :06:29.a device that ordinary Kenyans can get their hands on. A small outfit
:06:29. > :06:34.of Ghana is pushing to give every pack of medicine a unique code.
:06:34. > :06:38.Texting the code to the phone number of will tell you whether it
:06:38. > :06:43.is genuine or not. And because each code can only be texting once, this
:06:43. > :06:48.should stop drug counterfeiters from bulk copying a genuine code.
:06:48. > :06:53.Finding genuine drugs can be a real challenge. But an even more
:06:53. > :06:58.pressing challenge, especially for poorer areas, is finding clean
:06:58. > :07:07.students from Oxford University come in. They are bringing in
:07:07. > :07:11.something that they hope will save lives. The river to the village of
:07:11. > :07:17.Kyuso, 100 centre kilometres north of Nairobi, only flows for two once
:07:17. > :07:23.each year. For the rest of the time, this is the only source of clean
:07:23. > :07:28.water. If the hand pump breaks, it can be days before they can get a
:07:28. > :07:33.mechanic. In the meantime, it is back to a bucket, a book and a call
:07:33. > :07:38.in the ground. Something that is slow and unhygienic. -- a rope and
:07:38. > :07:43.a hole in the ground. Patrick Thompson and his team are adding a
:07:43. > :07:48.small device to the pub, which should get the work of a breakage
:07:48. > :07:54.out much quicker. -- Park. Like a lot of kit we have seen, what is
:07:54. > :07:57.inside an essential device is very simple. A mobile SIM card that can
:07:57. > :08:02.send a text to the District Water opposite the pub is not working.
:08:02. > :08:06.How does it know if it is broken? There are no complicated
:08:06. > :08:10.Diagnostics, just a simple movement sensor. If the pub has not moved in
:08:11. > :08:14.a while, they fit it is probably broken. And it is this kind of
:08:14. > :08:19.thinking, simple solutions using low key technology, that is being
:08:19. > :08:27.used to bring the world's biggest tech names in two Kenyan's con --
:08:27. > :08:32.Kenyan homes. Just after the Tech News. The Chinese telecoms firm
:08:32. > :08:35.Juawei and ZTE are a threat to national security, according to a
:08:35. > :08:39.national report. The US congressional committee said the
:08:39. > :08:44.companies were not independent from the influence of the Chinese
:08:44. > :08:48.government, having the means and motive to it inspired the US.
:08:48. > :08:51.Australia has backlist of the company. Canada and the UK are
:08:51. > :08:55.investigating. The global infrastructure manufacturers say
:08:55. > :08:59.they are being held hostage over a whole the political fears of the
:08:59. > :09:09.side they espionage. Skype is advising users to update their
:09:09. > :09:09.
:09:10. > :09:13.software, after it emerged it was used by criminals to download the
:09:13. > :09:19.software. They ask if it is your new profile peak, for example, and
:09:19. > :09:23.Scott uses up and walk out of their PCs and told to pay $200 to gain
:09:23. > :09:27.access. Some of the world's biggest telecom firms have joined forces
:09:27. > :09:32.with the UK Government to fund a new five g Research Centre. A
:09:32. > :09:37.facility to be based in Surrey would offer her testing facilities
:09:37. > :09:45.for those keen to develop a mobile standard that uses less energy and
:09:45. > :09:52.develops -- provides faster speeds. They say the new technology could
:09:52. > :10:02.be ready within the decade. And finally, Microsoft is showing off a
:10:02. > :10:02.
:10:02. > :10:10.prototype of a watt light sensor. - - watch-like. It could answer a
:10:10. > :10:15.mobile phone in a handbag. It incorporates a movement sensor that
:10:15. > :10:19.could remove the need from motion detecting cameras.
:10:19. > :10:23.If you want your technology project to work in the developing world,
:10:24. > :10:27.you have to think about mobile phones. That is how everybody
:10:27. > :10:32.communicates here and increasingly how people access the internet.
:10:32. > :10:39.There are a few. One or two smartphones that are popular here
:10:39. > :10:43.in Africa. For example, this low cost, low grade, simple, android
:10:43. > :10:47.smartphone. But many people still views feature phones like this. If
:10:47. > :10:56.you have a word service and you wanted to be popular in Africa,
:10:56. > :11:03.somehow you have to make it work on one of these. It is something that
:11:03. > :11:07.start-up forget-me-not has managed to infiltrate the area. Instead of
:11:07. > :11:13.waiting for smartphone and tablets to become more popular, Google,
:11:13. > :11:23.Emerson and others have agreed to help use it to help grow its
:11:23. > :11:25.
:11:26. > :11:32.Google also offers an Gmail in the same way in Ghana, Nigeria and
:11:32. > :11:37.tenor -- Kenya. You can receive messages as text for nothing and
:11:37. > :11:43.they cost the same as a standard SLRs. This cheap, unconjugated
:11:43. > :11:48.technology is all around you. Take this mobile payment system that is
:11:48. > :11:57.only a couple of years old and used by 70 million people. With simple
:11:57. > :12:02.text, you can pay for almost anything. -- 17 million. You can
:12:02. > :12:05.even buy a can of drink. This road leads all the way to the
:12:05. > :12:10.Indian Ocean. We are travelling just over half that distance. Five
:12:10. > :12:16.others from the capital like the two national parks. An area as
:12:17. > :12:24.large as the state of Israel. Our final stop on this Kenyan adventure
:12:24. > :12:27.will take us into the wilderness. These parks are invaluable to
:12:27. > :12:36.Kenya's economy. One-quarter of its national income comes from wildlife
:12:36. > :12:41.tourism, as many flocked to see the animals in their natural habitat.
:12:41. > :12:51.But behind the controlled safari tours, there is a conflict that has
:12:51. > :12:55.
:12:55. > :13:05.We have come to one village located between the two parks. As such,
:13:05. > :13:07.
:13:07. > :13:15.Africa and thoroughfare for the How much damage does an elephant do
:13:15. > :13:23.in one time? One time, they came in and clear 10
:13:23. > :13:27.acres of land. John's family has lived here for
:13:27. > :13:33.generations. He says trying to protect his crops from elephants is
:13:33. > :13:39.very dangerous. 20 years ago, his mother came out to scare some of
:13:39. > :13:45.them away. What happened next was a brutal reminder of an elephant's
:13:45. > :13:55.power and stay -- strength. As she tried to run, she fell down and the
:13:55. > :14:01.
:14:01. > :14:09.elephant picked her up. Her stomach was opened. She died on the spot.
:14:09. > :14:15.She was pregnant. Whenever I have been lucky enough
:14:15. > :14:19.to get close to wild animals, it has always been exhilarating. These
:14:20. > :14:25.people have to live side by side with them every day. While putting
:14:25. > :14:27.up at a fence around the entire national park is so expensive it is
:14:27. > :14:34.impractical, the Kenya Wildlife Service is trying to use technology
:14:34. > :14:36.to understand relevant behaviour and to prevent this kind of
:14:36. > :14:39.conflict. The Kenya Wildlife Service can
:14:39. > :14:43.deploy Rangers to keep the elephants away from nearby villages
:14:43. > :14:49.but because Tsavo National Park has the largest population of elephants
:14:49. > :14:54.in Kenya spread over 21,000 square kilometres, they have got to know
:14:54. > :15:04.where they are first. As a result, it has partnered with the
:15:04. > :15:08.International Fund for Animal to at least one animal per heard.
:15:08. > :15:12.Using these, they can spot the animals before they wanted to close
:15:12. > :15:21.to a village. The scientist monitors the information the
:15:21. > :15:25.collars sent back. Here is the factory. We have the software in
:15:25. > :15:35.built in this column. You would have to be an elephant to be able
:15:35. > :15:37.
:15:37. > :15:45.to carry this! It looks like in Nicholas! -- a
:15:45. > :15:49.necklace! First thing the next morning, we set out to see the
:15:49. > :15:55.problem for ourselves. We have identified a herd of elephants that
:15:55. > :15:59.has made close to a nearby village. But it is a two-hour drive to the
:15:59. > :16:05.last recorded satellite position and by the time we arrive, the
:16:05. > :16:12.animals have moved on. To track them from here, we used an older
:16:12. > :16:19.type of technology, following the signal from the VHF transmitter.
:16:19. > :16:25.Finally, a trained pair of eyes. As we arrive, the herd of elephants is
:16:25. > :16:35.just disappearing. We get one fleeting glimpse of the Koller
:16:35. > :16:37.
:16:37. > :16:42.before its owner vanishes. -- collar. We're right on the edge of
:16:42. > :16:47.Kenya. Just over there is Tanzania. There is a lake between us. The
:16:47. > :16:51.herd of elephants are in does Rees having a drink from the lake. The
:16:51. > :16:54.problem is that when they come out, they are likely to go straight
:16:54. > :17:04.through the village that is only a couple of hundred metres and for
:17:04. > :17:06.
:17:07. > :17:13.there. -- over there. That is exactly what they did. You can see
:17:13. > :17:18.how an intimidating they are by humans and how close they came to
:17:18. > :17:26.the buildings. -- how are afraid they are of humans. Using these
:17:26. > :17:36.collars, we will know which areas to fence off. They can move from
:17:36. > :17:39.one area to the other. Once they move, they leave that Eliot to
:17:39. > :17:44.recover. We can assume that they will one day return to this area.
:17:44. > :17:48.So we cannot block it off. When an elephant becomes a nuisance,
:17:48. > :17:56.destroying property and crops, people often ask authorities to
:17:56. > :18:01.kill the animal. Sometimes, villagers do it themselves, using
:18:01. > :18:05.poison Spears. The African elephant is now categorised as a vulnerable
:18:05. > :18:14.species so the data collected by the scholars at giving scientists
:18:14. > :18:21.valuable insight into their behaviour, which could reduce
:18:21. > :18:31.future confrontation. What an amazing place this is. As
:18:31. > :18:33.
:18:33. > :18:43.for the weather... That is better than in the UK as well.
:18:43. > :18:43.
:18:43. > :18:47.Kate Russell is about to open a window on the world of weather.
:18:47. > :18:52.Looking out of your window when the weather is rubbish can be
:18:52. > :18:56.depressing but not if you look out of one of these windows instead.
:18:56. > :19:00.Download the free application, install the plug-in or jump onto
:19:00. > :19:06.the Facebook page to turn the weather report into an
:19:06. > :19:11.international -- interactive experience. There are only a few
:19:11. > :19:16.cities set up as examples. You will have to personalise the settings
:19:16. > :19:21.for your own specific location. And when you are installing it, make
:19:21. > :19:30.sure that you deselect the AVG installation box if you do not want
:19:30. > :19:35.it. I hate it when they do that. As the day unfolds, the sun will rise
:19:35. > :19:39.and fall and the weather will be represented in real time, complete
:19:39. > :19:49.with a swaying plants to show the wind speed. You can check out the
:19:49. > :19:53.next ten days of the forecast as well. There are worse ways to find
:19:53. > :19:58.out that it is going to rain. Things are easier to learn when
:19:58. > :20:02.presented in an engaging way. At this website, they celebrate the
:20:02. > :20:08.best of UK lessons through a community of teaching professionals
:20:08. > :20:13.and students. Classes are submitted in video form for everyone to see.
:20:13. > :20:18.Some of these are worth watching even if you are not in education.
:20:18. > :20:28.There are definitely some adults who could learn a thing or two. I
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:20:28. > :20:31.know that I did! Teachers and students can upload a
:20:31. > :20:37.film but publication on the site is moderate have to make sure that
:20:37. > :20:44.they are accurate and appropriate to the curriculum. -- moderated.
:20:44. > :20:53.There is also an iPhone app, making it easy to upload content.
:20:53. > :21:00.There are even awards to be one for the best rate of lesson of the week.
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:21:11. > :21:16.stream into an ebook which can be downloaded to your Kindle to browse
:21:16. > :21:20.at your leisure. This is good if you follow a lot of people and
:21:20. > :21:28.don't want to miss a thing. You only get 100 tweets to look at her
:21:28. > :21:32.day if you do not want to upgrade to be paid version. -- per day.
:21:32. > :21:39.This next website is a brilliant idea if you are hosting a party or
:21:39. > :21:46.event. All you do is set up your hashtag
:21:46. > :21:53.and anyone who tweets using that same hashtag will have their
:21:53. > :21:57.message appear on the screen. Comments cannot be moderated.
:21:57. > :22:02.These Elisha will display tweets and pictures. It took 20 seconds
:22:02. > :22:06.for a message to pop up once I sent it but that will do care on a lot
:22:06. > :22:11.of variables on the day. This is a great gizmo if you want visitors at
:22:11. > :22:21.an event to interact with each other. It could be a good way to
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:22:28. > :22:33.create some good memories as well. If you are having trouble being
:22:33. > :22:39.understood, Gmail has added more than 100 virtual keyboards to help
:22:39. > :22:45.users communicate in 75 languages. Quite an improvement on the five it
:22:45. > :22:54.supported before. Enable input tours in language
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