Chatbots, Local Weather Reports, and a Boon for Kenya’s Smallholder Farmers

Strathmore University is the recipient of a Mozilla Common Voice grant. Its project combines data collected from mini-weather stations with a new chatbot to offer smallholder farmers real-time digital climate information in both English and Swahili.

We spoke with Project Lead Betsy Muriithi about her team’s approach to helping smallholder farmers thrive.

Imarika team members Paschal Kyalo (far left) and George Okello (far right) demonstrating Imarika Weatherwise at the Mozilla Common Voice Stand at the 7th Mercy Corp Annual …

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