Tech Life goes to Nairobi

Tech Life

BBC

Tech News, News, Technology

4.4 • 221 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This special edition of Tech Life comes from Nairobi, in Kenya. We visit an agri-tech hackathon, where high tech ideas for reducing the vast amount of wasted crops in Africa are being put forward. We have a tour of the Basi-Go E-bus charging depot, and hear their vision for bringing the electric vehicle revolution to the streets of Nairobi. Market traders tell us how their lives have been transformed by the M-Pesa mobile money system - and we head to Nairobi Garage start up to meet the next generation of fin tech founders, and hear their plans for bringing new products and services to the booming population of young people across Africa.

((PIC CREDIT: Presenter Shiona McCallum meets trader Lydia in Nairobi's famous Maasai market)

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see.
0:04.7	Hello, I'm Brian Cox.
0:05.6	And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage.
0:08.3	In this series, we're going to have a planet off.
0:10.8	I feel like Jupiter wins.
0:12.8	And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit.
0:15.9	We're talking about your bog standard.
0:17.8	Ice, not the fancy one.
0:20.1	Science with funny bits.
0:21.9	The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage.
0:24.1	Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.
0:28.3	Sport, but not as you know it.
0:31.5	Yes, you're good enough.
0:32.8	We wish we could take you, but you're a girl.
0:36.2	Amazing sports stories from the BBC World Service.
0:39.6	The rules were holding her back.
0:42.0	So she would have to rewrite them.
0:44.1	Listen now, wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:48.4	Welcome to a special edition of Tech Life on the BBC World Service with me, Shona McCallum. We've left our normal home
0:56.5	in Glasgow, Scotland, to come to the streets of Nairobi in Kenya. For many people around the
1:02.3	world, when they think of this country, it's perhaps the grasslands and the wildlife that come to
1:07.0	mind. But this place is forging a new reputation as a silicon savannah. And in this show,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.