and profiling. The system will provide the police with real time data on incidences and crime suspects providing them with the efficiency required to better manage crime. This project will include the necessary ICT infrastructure to have broadband connectivity in police stations. ‘an electronic animal monitoring system that is able to track livestock ownership for security reasons and feeding practices will be implemented’ Agriculture actions. Over the last three years, Kenya’s financial sector has continually raised the bar in terms of innovation and technology use. The commercial banks have been instrumental in opening up opportunity for the marginalized through the extension of innovative services such as, mobile platforms like the M-pesa, mobile banking, micro financing and agent banking. The sector has a significant contribution to the GDP of 24% (KNBS, 2012), but the sector is largely informal and inefficient. The indicators of the sector are based on major commodities such as tea, coffee, etc. that are handled with some level of formality. There is an opportunity for using ICT to formalise the sector by collecting data of all farmers on all commodities and to provide a platform to learn about better farming practises to increase production quality and quantity. Kenya is poised to become the financial hub of Eastern Africa. In order to enhance this and increase the contribution of the financial services sector to GDP, a national payment gateway project will be implemented to facilitate secure online payments by supporting multiple financial institutions to carry out electronic transactions and simplify the processing of payments. This will increase the adoption of electronic services especially the internet enabled payments. A national agriculture commodity exchange will be implemented as a flagship project to facilitate competitive and efficient trade in commodities by providing reliable, timely and accurate marketing information and intelligence to farmers and other stakeholders via mobile phones and other end-user devices and to enable farmers sell their produce through the electronic platform. This platform would enable farmers and producers of primary commodities to access timely and accurate marketing and price information and sell their produce through it. In turn, this action would empower farmers by enabling increased value of their agricultural products and by reduced turnaround time to receive payments (Waema and Katua, 2014). This commodity exchange would include the automation of the tea auction in Mombasa as recommended in a recent study (ibid.). In addition, an electronic animal monitoring system that is able to track livestock ownership for security reasons and feeding practices will be implemented. This will provide end to end data of farm animal produce therefore opening up the global market for Kenyan meat and increased trade opportunities. Trade, Transport and Logistics Financial Services Most of the financial institutions are offering mobile banking solutions as a mode of accessing some of the services. The sector has the potential to transform end user adoption of ICT in day-to-day trans- ..80 .................................................................................................................Towards ...............a...Digital .............Kenya ............ The transport sector grew at a rate of 6.9% in 2010 and 4.0% in 2011 while contributing 8% to the GDP (KNBS, 2012). Transportation in Kenya accounts for 40% of costs of doing business. The current bottlenecks in achieving higher economic growth in the sector are low efficiencies at border points and poor quality of infrastructure. ICTs provide clear tools for improving efficiencies and for tracking and monitoring in this sector. In order to realize development benefits in this sector, the following flagship projects will be implemented: • Single window system to facilitate cross border trade through the submission of regulatory documents such as custom declarations, applications for import/export permits, certificates of origin, trading invoices, etc on a single entry screen. • National physical addressing system project that will provide street addressing, numbering and coding of all properties and thereby provide clear logistical support for economic activities, e.g. deliveries. • Transport integrated management system (TIMS). This includes the automation of key processes in the transport industry, including driver testing, PSV/TLB licensing, traffic violations and prosecutions, motor vehicle inspection, etc. The benefits of this system include: • eliminate fraud in the transport industry; • improve efficiency and effectiveness in resource utilization; • provide a single source of truth on road transportation; ‘Transportation in Kenya accounts for 40% of costs of doing business’ 81 Towards a Digital Kenya ..............................................................................................................................................................