What is the Wat­son Project? Wat­son is a cog­nit­ive tech­no­logy that pro­cesses inform­a­tion more like a human than a com­puter by under­stand­ing nat­ural lan­guage, gen­er­at­ing hypo­theses based on evid­ence and learn­ing as it goes. Read more about Wat­son here. The Wat­son Life Re-​Imagine IT pro­gram was launched in Strath­more Uni­ver­sity on 11th July 2014. The pro­gram tar­gets stu­dents […]

Overview BLIS (Basic Laboratory Information System) Kenya, is a fork of C4G BLIS an open source Web-based system that can be implemented in a local, district, or national laboratory. The system efficiently manages the work flow in the lab through integrating with the hospital EMR’s, automatically receiving lab test requests from the clinicians/doctors and returning […]

In a nation that ranked poorly in the 2013 Trans­par­ency International’s Cor­rup­tion Per­cep­tion Index, e-​governance and e-​payments offer the pro­spect of trans­par­ency and heightened rev­enue col­lec­tions, or do they? This piece assesses the hype behind e-​governance and e-​payment sys­tems, and the real­ity behind its impact on local rev­enue collections CountyPro Over­view CountyPro is a robust, ready to […]

01 Pois­ons Board (PPB) App –this app enables the PPB inspect­ors to register and val­id­ate all the phar­macy work­ers and premises in the field in real time. The inform­a­tion is then made avail­able to the pub­lic. The applic­a­tion helps PPD to imple­ment the appro­pri­ate reg­u­lat­ory meas­ures to achieve the highest stand­ards of safety and qual­ity for all drugs, chem­ical sub­stances and […]

01Sam­sung Research @iLabAfrica received fund­ing from Sam­sung for research and devel­op­ment for a period of 3 years. @iLabAfrica is the second Sam­sung innov­a­tion lab centre in Africa. The research aims at help­ing stu­dents to come up with new and innov­at­ive products. 02IDS Know­ledge Ser­vice Wid­get @iLabAfrica developed an HTML wid­get to show­case IDS Know­ledge Ser­vices con­tent of tens of […]

04Alkira Pro­ject In Janu­ary 2012 we col­lab­or­ated with an Aus­tralia com­pany known as Alkira to carry out soft­ware devel­op­ment. we have imple­men­ted the fol­low­ing pro­jects for the team; Med­ic­a­tion Man­age­ment Mod­ule and Facil­ity Man­age­ment Mod­ule. Click here to read more about our col­lab­or­a­tion with Alkira. 03Integ­rated Dis­ease Sur­veil­lance and Response (IDSR) A web and mobile sys­tem for rapid data […]

09Kenya ICT Board Tandaa project 08Girl Effect This is a Rural high school girls pro­ject that pro­motes ICT among girls’ schools. @iLabAfrica staff go to train and mentor in Kitui on a monthly basis. 07Mobile eLearn­ing and Computer-​Aided Assess­ment in Uni­ver­sit­ies The study entails the design, test­ing and imple­ment­a­tion of mobile based con­tent deliv­ery sys­tems […]