Five secondary school girls have developed an application that could largely help curb insecurity in residential areas.
After a two-year intensive research, the students from Misyani Girls' High School in Machakos County have eventually completed developing the app intended to digitise crime reporting and detection.
According to their teacher in charge of App development, Mr John Mutisya, the app works by detecting strangers and thereafter relaying their identities to security agents like the police and it relies heavily on data available from the Government’s registration bureau.
According to Rachel Ngeneke, the student 'Digigirlz' team Leader, the app’s underlying assumption is that each and every estate has a manager who maintains a database of its tenants.
Digigirlz is a Microsoft Youths Spark programme that educates young girls in the fields of science and technology, engineering and mathematics, to encourage them to participate in global economic growth.
“To get much from this app, the entrance gates should be fitted with CCTV cameras and a biometric system to capture the eye’s iris,” Ngeneke stated, adding that the apps cameras are night sensitive.
The Spark programme is sponsored by I Choose Life Africa (ICL) in partnership with Microsoft.