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Welcome to Click. Welcome to one of the most vibrant places on earth.

It is colourful, it is conflicted and it's believed to be the cradle

of humanity. The place we all came from. This is Kenya. This week, we

are hitting the road to hunt down the country's latest tech

innovations. We will look at the simple yet vibrant services helping

to save lives. And we go off-road to go up close and personal with

these guys. But how can satellite technology stop them getting too

close to anyone else? All that plus the very latest Tech News and the

best of the word in Webscape. -- the Web.

Straddling the equator on the east coast of Africa. Kenya is 580,000

square kilometres of land and it is our destination for the next seven

days. Time to board this 80s throwback transportation and munch

away through 7,000 kilometres of airspace. This is a country with

some hi-tech credentials. Nairobi is home to a booming tech community,

bursting with ideas. So much so that some refer to the city as the

Silicon Savannah. Nearly three- quarters of Kenya's 14 million

people own a mobile phone. And many of those used one to go online. --

40 million. But not far from the high and shopping streets are a

dramatic changes happening. 0 most -- almost a quarter live on less

than $1 a day and many without access to healthcare access. And

this is where basic technology can make a real difference. That is why

we have come here, to Ruiru, about 20 kilometres north-east of Nairobi.

A typical Kenyan town. What is not typical is what Neri, who lives

here, is about to do. --. Neri. In the midday heat, she takes the half

hour phone-call sitting down. After all, she is pregnant. For the past

six months, these calls have tracked her health as her unborn

baby develops. She is one of 90 women taking part in the trial

called Baby Monitor, the aim of which is to develop an automated

screening system that can identify Most women are from poor areas like

this Mohi estate never see a health professional during their pregnancy

and they usually deliver at home. Those who do want help often have

no help but to walk miles to the nearest clinic. Another reason why

many choose not to visit at all and why every year around 6,000 women

in Kenya have died due to pregnancy related complications. As part of

the trial, she comes to the Jacaranda Health Clinic for regular

check-ups. And crucially for Baby Monitor, the nurse asks the same

questions posed by the automated phone calls. The two sets of

answers will be compared to each other and the nurse's physical

assessment, to determine whether Baby Monitor is asking the right

questions. That means in the future, the algorithm can be tweaked to

more sex fully diagnosed problems without human back-up. -- war

successfully. We can give you out who needs more attention. -- figure

out. It is not only the community health workers who are in high

demand. The World Health Organisation estimates there is

only one doctor for every 10,000 people in the country. A small

village may not even have a local physician, which means pregnant or

not getting a professional diagnosis for even a simple Eilidh

is difficult. -- ailment. This is where a mobile mac like MedAfrica

can help. The founder has ambitions to create a huge medical database

that can provide medical are loads and help find the new list of

doctors. That assumes that you or somebody you know it owns the

smartphone. In every village, there is somebody who uses the phone for

Jess Ennis or uses Facebook. -- SMS. In one village or one hopes that,

somebody has made Africa. If your grandmother has an issue, you can

give her the right information that she requires. -- MedAfrica.

even if you can get to see a doctor and get a good diagnosis, there are

yet more hurdles to overcome. Around 30% of drugs in circulation

in Kenya are fake, containing none acted for even poisonous substances.

This is the device that was lured to Kenyan officials by Brandon mac,

one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world, to tackle

the problem. -- Brandon mac. It can chemically analyse a drug through

its packaging and confirm its authenticity but it is clearly not

a device that ordinary Kenyans can get their hands on. A small outfit

of Ghana is pushing to give every pack of medicine a unique code.

Texting the code to the phone number of will tell you whether it

is genuine or not. And because each code can only be texting once, this

should stop drug counterfeiters from bulk copying a genuine code.

Finding genuine drugs can be a real challenge. But an even more

pressing challenge, especially for poorer areas, is finding clean

students from Oxford University come in. They are bringing in

something that they hope will save lives. The river to the village of

Kyuso, 100 centre kilometres north of Nairobi, only flows for two once

each year. For the rest of the time, this is the only source of clean

water. If the hand pump breaks, it can be days before they can get a

mechanic. In the meantime, it is back to a bucket, a book and a call

in the ground. Something that is slow and unhygienic. -- a rope and

a hole in the ground. Patrick Thompson and his team are adding a

small device to the pub, which should get the work of a breakage

out much quicker. -- Park. Like a lot of kit we have seen, what is

inside an essential device is very simple. A mobile SIM card that can

send a text to the District Water opposite the pub is not working.

How does it know if it is broken? There are no complicated

Diagnostics, just a simple movement sensor. If the pub has not moved in

a while, they fit it is probably broken. And it is this kind of

thinking, simple solutions using low key technology, that is being

used to bring the world's biggest tech names in two Kenyan's con --

Kenyan homes. Just after the Tech News. The Chinese telecoms firm

Juawei and ZTE are a threat to national security, according to a

national report. The US congressional committee said the

companies were not independent from the influence of the Chinese

government, having the means and motive to it inspired the US.

Australia has backlist of the company. Canada and the UK are

investigating. The global infrastructure manufacturers say

they are being held hostage over a whole the political fears of the

side they espionage. Skype is advising users to update their

software, after it emerged it was used by criminals to download the

software. They ask if it is your new profile peak, for example, and

Scott uses up and walk out of their PCs and told to pay $200 to gain

access. Some of the world's biggest telecom firms have joined forces

with the UK Government to fund a new five g Research Centre. A

facility to be based in Surrey would offer her testing facilities

for those keen to develop a mobile standard that uses less energy and

develops -- provides faster speeds. They say the new technology could

be ready within the decade. And finally, Microsoft is showing off a

prototype of a watt light sensor. - - watch-like. It could answer a

mobile phone in a handbag. It incorporates a movement sensor that

could remove the need from motion detecting cameras.

If you want your technology project to work in the developing world,

you have to think about mobile phones. That is how everybody

communicates here and increasingly how people access the internet.

There are a few. One or two smartphones that are popular here

in Africa. For example, this low cost, low grade, simple, android

smartphone. But many people still views feature phones like this. If

you have a word service and you wanted to be popular in Africa,

somehow you have to make it work on one of these. It is something that

start-up forget-me-not has managed to infiltrate the area. Instead of

waiting for smartphone and tablets to become more popular, Google,

Emerson and others have agreed to help use it to help grow its

Google also offers an Gmail in the same way in Ghana, Nigeria and

tenor -- Kenya. You can receive messages as text for nothing and

they cost the same as a standard SLRs. This cheap, unconjugated

technology is all around you. Take this mobile payment system that is

only a couple of years old and used by 70 million people. With simple

text, you can pay for almost anything. -- 17 million. You can

even buy a can of drink. This road leads all the way to the

Indian Ocean. We are travelling just over half that distance. Five

others from the capital like the two national parks. An area as

large as the state of Israel. Our final stop on this Kenyan adventure

will take us into the wilderness. These parks are invaluable to

Kenya's economy. One-quarter of its national income comes from wildlife

tourism, as many flocked to see the animals in their natural habitat.

But behind the controlled safari tours, there is a conflict that has

We have come to one village located between the two parks. As such,

Africa and thoroughfare for the How much damage does an elephant do

in one time? One time, they came in and clear 10

acres of land. John's family has lived here for

generations. He says trying to protect his crops from elephants is

very dangerous. 20 years ago, his mother came out to scare some of

them away. What happened next was a brutal reminder of an elephant's

power and stay -- strength. As she tried to run, she fell down and the

elephant picked her up. Her stomach was opened. She died on the spot.

She was pregnant. Whenever I have been lucky enough

to get close to wild animals, it has always been exhilarating. These

people have to live side by side with them every day. While putting

up at a fence around the entire national park is so expensive it is

impractical, the Kenya Wildlife Service is trying to use technology

to understand relevant behaviour and to prevent this kind of

conflict. The Kenya Wildlife Service can

deploy Rangers to keep the elephants away from nearby villages

but because Tsavo National Park has the largest population of elephants

in Kenya spread over 21,000 square kilometres, they have got to know

where they are first. As a result, it has partnered with the

International Fund for Animal to at least one animal per heard.

Using these, they can spot the animals before they wanted to close

to a village. The scientist monitors the information the

collars sent back. Here is the factory. We have the software in

built in this column. You would have to be an elephant to be able

to carry this! It looks like in Nicholas! -- a

necklace! First thing the next morning, we set out to see the

problem for ourselves. We have identified a herd of elephants that

has made close to a nearby village. But it is a two-hour drive to the

last recorded satellite position and by the time we arrive, the

animals have moved on. To track them from here, we used an older

type of technology, following the signal from the VHF transmitter.

Finally, a trained pair of eyes. As we arrive, the herd of elephants is

just disappearing. We get one fleeting glimpse of the Koller

before its owner vanishes. -- collar. We're right on the edge of

Kenya. Just over there is Tanzania. There is a lake between us. The

herd of elephants are in does Rees having a drink from the lake. The

problem is that when they come out, they are likely to go straight

through the village that is only a couple of hundred metres and for

there. -- over there. That is exactly what they did. You can see

how an intimidating they are by humans and how close they came to

the buildings. -- how are afraid they are of humans. Using these

collars, we will know which areas to fence off. They can move from

one area to the other. Once they move, they leave that Eliot to

recover. We can assume that they will one day return to this area.

So we cannot block it off. When an elephant becomes a nuisance,

destroying property and crops, people often ask authorities to

kill the animal. Sometimes, villagers do it themselves, using

poison Spears. The African elephant is now categorised as a vulnerable

species so the data collected by the scholars at giving scientists

valuable insight into their behaviour, which could reduce

future confrontation. What an amazing place this is. As

for the weather... That is better than in the UK as well.

Kate Russell is about to open a window on the world of weather.

Looking out of your window when the weather is rubbish can be

depressing but not if you look out of one of these windows instead.

Download the free application, install the plug-in or jump onto

the Facebook page to turn the weather report into an

international -- interactive experience. There are only a few

cities set up as examples. You will have to personalise the settings

for your own specific location. And when you are installing it, make

sure that you deselect the AVG installation box if you do not want

it. I hate it when they do that. As the day unfolds, the sun will rise

and fall and the weather will be represented in real time, complete

with a swaying plants to show the wind speed. You can check out the

next ten days of the forecast as well. There are worse ways to find

out that it is going to rain. Things are easier to learn when

presented in an engaging way. At this website, they celebrate the

best of UK lessons through a community of teaching professionals

and students. Classes are submitted in video form for everyone to see.

Some of these are worth watching even if you are not in education.

There are definitely some adults who could learn a thing or two. I

know that I did! Teachers and students can upload a

film but publication on the site is moderate have to make sure that

they are accurate and appropriate to the curriculum. -- moderated.

There is also an iPhone app, making it easy to upload content.

There are even awards to be one for the best rate of lesson of the week.

-- best rated. I have a couple of interesting

social add-ons to get to. This is a great idea that turns your Twitter

stream into an ebook which can be downloaded to your Kindle to browse

at your leisure. This is good if you follow a lot of people and

don't want to miss a thing. You only get 100 tweets to look at her

day if you do not want to upgrade to be paid version. -- per day.

This next website is a brilliant idea if you are hosting a party or

event. All you do is set up your hashtag

and anyone who tweets using that same hashtag will have their

message appear on the screen. Comments cannot be moderated.

These Elisha will display tweets and pictures. It took 20 seconds

for a message to pop up once I sent it but that will do care on a lot

of variables on the day. This is a great gizmo if you want visitors at

an event to interact with each other. It could be a good way to

create some good memories as well. If you are having trouble being

understood, Gmail has added more than 100 virtual keyboards to help

users communicate in 75 languages. Quite an improvement on the five it

supported before. Enable input tours in language

settings and choose the ones you want. -- tools. One month after

Facebook reopened the dollars of its actual gift for friends store,

Twitter has thrust a virtual version on an answer spending --

unsuspecting public. You can expect to see cute butts and surprisingly

enough -- naff -- you can expect to see cute but unsurprising we now

have boxers on your computer screen soon.

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