With his neat haircut, simple T-shirt and heavy back-pack, Amos Gichamba looks like any other university student. But unlike many of his peers, the 20-something year-old student has been interviewed by media giant CNN, who came calling last year to find out more about what the young man is carrying in his pocket. CNN was attracted by Mr Gichamba’s software creation dubbed ‘M-Kulima’, which targets co-operative societies and milk processors and is used for monitoring dairy farmers’ deliveries and payments. It runs on mobile phones, and gives dairies the ability to monitor the amount of milk delivered by individual farmers at collection points.
From the program, daily, weekly, monthly or annual reports can be retrieved showing deliveries to specific collection centres or the total amount of milk collected by a SACCO or milk processor.
Mr Gichamba is currently fine-tuning the application for use in the tea and coffee sectors. http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Techpreneurs%20find%20niche%20in%20develo...