Africa's Great Tech Ideas

DEMO Launchpad is a premier tech event which takes place yearly in Silicon Valley to give a potential boost to promising new tech companies. This year it has also focussed on Africa for the very first time.  Bright and ambitious technophiles headed to Nairobi to pitch their digital dreams.  Click's Nisha Ligon reports on the launch of these African showcases.

(Photo: Marieme Jamme, social entrepreneur and CEO of SpotOne Global Solutions, gives her views on the technologies presented at DEMO Africa - credit: Nisha Ligon)

It's a camera with no buttons or on/off switch.  As long as you wear the camera, preferably around your neck, it will take a geo-tagged photo every thirty seconds.  The orientation is also recorded so that the app can show them upright no matter how you are wearing the camera.  There is also no need to worry about inclement weather as it’s weather-protected.  The system is called Memoto, and its camera and app work together so that you will have pictures of every single moment of your life.  But is it desirable?  And what about those in your vicinity who don’t want their picture recorded?  Memoto’s Oskar Kalmaru joins Click to discuss how we might all one day have a complete pictorial record of our lives.