KENYA GOVERNMENT SEEKING TO LOWER COST OF PROJECTS

KENYA GOVERNMENT SEEKING TO LOWER COST OF PROJECTS

Kenya Government looking to lower costs of crucial projects The government of Kenya through the Kenya Roads Boards (KRB), is in search of researchers, contractors and suppliers who will help to reduce its budgetary costs by at least 25%. Reducing the costs will enable them achieve more developmental projects. Chair person of KRB, Ms Rita Kavashe, said the key areas under consideration include; transport and housing infrastructure and research. Roads contribute about 60% of Kenya’s GDP, however its contribution is…

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NEW AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS COULD CONTRIBUTE TO IMPROVEMENTS IN ROAD SAFETY.

NEW AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS COULD CONTRIBUTE TO IMPROVEMENTS IN ROAD SAFETY.

An autonomous system capable of detecting actions which could suggest driver distractedness  has been created by researchers at the university of waterloo.  With the aid of  machine learning algorithms  it can detect patterns of behaviour when trained on enormous datasets  to recognise the hand movements indicative of texting, talking on a phone, reaching into the backseat to retrieve an object and other actions which deviate from safe driving. In addition to the machine-learning software ,…

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