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