
Silicon Valley’s tech giants have been eagerly taking stock of the growing numbers of motorbikes speeding through the streets of Kenya. When Google launched a Motorbike Mode on its Maps in Kenya, the company noted how over a million Kenyans use motorbikes as their preferred mode of transport. Ridesharing apps like Uber and Taxify have also tailored their products to the Kenyan market offering motorbike pickup options. In similar fashion, motorbikers armed with smartphones are revving-up agri-tech innovation in this swiftly developing East African nation. In particular the Kenyan startup Sidai Africa has been deploying an expanding fleet of motorbikes as a quick and easy way to dispatch specialist farming products and services to livestock farms in remote areas.
