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Integrated Mobile Application Based on Machine Learning for East Africa Stock Market
(Veritas Publications LTD, 2021-06-23) Manishimwe, Alban; Alexander, Happyness; Kaluuma, Hillary; Dida, Mussa
Regional Integration refers to the process of states coming together to sign agreements where they agree to cooperate in certain areas common to them. The East African Community (EAC) which was founded on November 30, 1999, identified three integration pillars; common Market protocol, customs union and political federation. In attempt to achieve the named pillars, financial markets have been identified as a key driver for common market and customs union. The challenge however is that the East African countries run the most expensive stocks on the African Continent and this has greatly influenced trade volumes and investor appetite. When these markets are integrated it allows collective bargaining thereby increasing their market share across the region other than a given country running its own exchange. This paper presents a software platform that will enable an investor to purchase and sell stocks irrespective of any location in the East African Region thus spur the development of stock market in terms of volume and competitiveness.
Online and Offline Android Based Mobile Application for Mapping Health Facilities Using Google Map API. Case Study: Tanzania and Kenya Borders
(Scientific Research Publishing Inc., 2021-08) Alexander, Happyness; Leo, Judith; Kaijage, Shubi
The evolution of technology in 1990s resulted in the enormous growth of smartphones and the propagation of mobile applications (App) that marked new opportunities for healthcare centers and medical education. Apps have altered health services from patient’s health monitoring to specialist’s appointments and consultations from specialized health facilities. It can be argued that a healthy society can bring forth sustainable economic development to its full potential while an unhealthy society cannot. However, a free movement of people, labour and right to residence which was built across East Africa (EA) borders enabled Tanzania and Kenya borders to have enormous interactions. Subsequently, increase the risk of highly communicable diseases such as Tuberculosis and Sexually transmitted infections in such a way that medical attention is unavoidable along the borders. Statistically, Android Operating System (OS) owns 83% of Africa’s mobile OS market. In addition, 25,794,560 internet users reported by Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) together with the 22.86 million internet users provided by Kenya Digital which is equivalent to 46% and 43% of internet penetration in year 2020, disclose the need for Android mobile application for mapping health facilities both online and offline using Google map API, which will solve residents’ need to healthcare services on the presence or shortage of internet connections; using either Swahili or English language via Smartphone devices. The App incorporates Monitoring and Evaluation (M & E) tool for tracking application usage which will ease Admin’s task to generate daily and monthly reports in Excel and Comma-Separated Values (CSV) formats. The developed system received positive feedback from EA citizens and residents in the Arusha region and Namanga border crossing where 90.2% of the system evaluation conducted between Dec 2020 and Apr 2021 agreed upon App usage.
Scaling up access to health services beyond Tanzania and Kenya borders through wananchi afya digital mobile application
(NM-AIST, 2021-07) Alexander, Happyness
Health services play an important role of assisting people who seek medical attention within the society. It can be argued that a healthy society can bring forth sustainable economic development to its full potential while an unhealthy society cannot. However, a free movement of people, labor and right to residence which was built across East Africa (EA) borders enabled Tanzania and Kenya borders to have enormous interactions. Subsequently, increase the risk of highly communicable diseases such as Tuberculosis and Sexually transmitted infections in such a way that medical attention is unavoidable along the borders. The evolution of smartphones and propagation of mobile applications (App) in 1990s have marked new opportunities for healthcare centers and medical education. Statistically, Android Operating System (OS) owns 83% of Africa’s mobile OS market. In addition, Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) and Kenya Digital have reported over 25.79 million and 22.86 million of internet users respectively, which is equivalent to 46% and 43% of internet penetration year 2020. This discloses the need for Android Mobile Application in order to improve access to health services and related-information both online and offline using Swahili and English language and integrate it with monitoring and evaluation (M&E) tool to monitor the most requested viewed content and measures change over time on existing health facilities to citizens and residents that travel across Kenya and Tanzania borders. The developed system received positive feedback from EA citizens and residents where 90.2% of the system evaluation conducted agreed upon App usage.